Dancing On Ice star Ashley Banjo has been a mainstay on the judging panel since 2018. His telly breakthrough came, of course, when he won Britain’s Got Talent as part of dance troupe Diversity.
Amid several years of subsequent TV success on shows such as Got to Dance, Dance Dance Dance, and The Real Full Monty, Ashley returned to BGT in 2020 to fill in for Simon Cowell as a judge as he recovered from a bike accident.
And it was during this run – just a few months following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the US – that Diversity performed their stunning BLM-inspired routine.
Diversity’s BLM performance on BGT
While many viewers applauded the powerful moment on ITV, thousands of others made complaints to Ofcom.
Ashley also came in for a deluge of abuse on social media – but he maintained a dignified stance.
He wrote on Twitter at the time: “
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