Hollyoaks bosses have admitted there is “further work to do” after one of the soap’s stars said she had experienced racism while working on the show.
The Channel 4 series is introducing new measures – including bringing in “unconscious bias trainers” – to tackle racial inequality among its cast and crew.
Lime Pictures, which produces the soap, released a statement after actress Rachel Adedeji said on Friday that “very little is being done behind the scenes” to address issues around racial inequality.
She said her “fellow black cast mates are deemed angry, aggressive and too vocal” and described Hollyoaks’ response to the Black Lives Matter movement as “performative and disingenuous”.
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