Ant and Dec issue apology for ‘impersonating people of colour’ on Saturday Night Takeaway

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Ant and Dec issue apology for ‘impersonating people of colour’ on Saturday Night Takeaway and promise to never do it again… as they remove all footage of sketches from ITV Hub 

By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline

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Ant and Dec has issues an apology to their Twitter followers for ‘impersonating people of colour’ during ‘comedy’ sketches on Saturday Night Takeaway.

They took to the micro-blogging site on Wednesday evening, posting: ‘During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour during the undercover segment of the show.

‘We realise that this was wrong and want to say we ware sincerely sorry for anyone that was offended.

Ant and Dec has issues an apology to their Twitter followers for ‘impersonating people of colour’ during ‘comedy’ sketches on Saturday Night Takeaway

They took to the micro-blogging site on Wednesday evening, posting: 'During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour during the undercover segment of the show'

They took to the micro-blogging site on Wednesday evening, posting: ‘During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour during the undercover segment of the show’

They went on: 'We realise that this was wrong and want to say we ware sincerely sorry for anyone that was offended'

They went on: ‘We realise that this was wrong and want to say we ware sincerely sorry for anyone that was offended’

‘We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and certainly would not do these sketches today 

‘We had already taken steps to ensure footage was taken down and have again recently confirmed with ITV that these segments, and any other historical content that could cause offence, does not appear on the ITV Hub of the Saturday Night Takeaway YouTube channel.’