BBC Breakfast viewers wound up by 'woke' question as guest Rakie Ayola rolls eyes

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A BBC Breakfast host has caused a stir with Twitter users after suggesting that some people would describe the characters in BBC drama The Pact as a "woke version of a Welsh family" to bemused star Rakie Ayola.

Show host Victoria Fritz had been speaking to Ayola, who has starred in a number of major TV shows over the years including Noughts and Crosses and Grace, about her role as DS Holland in the new series of the BBC drama when she made the comment, writes The Mirror.The second series of the pact follows a new story as social worker Christine and her family's loyalties are tested when they're confronted by a stranger, who claim to have a connection that nobody could have imagined.

Appearing on the BBC Breakfast sofa with Ayola, host Fritz said: "There will be some people who see this and will say this is a woke version of a Welsh family."As Ayola rolled her eyes, the host continued: "I can see you rolling your eyes.

Tell me. If anybody wants to say that to me, what I would say is explain what you mean by 'woke' and then we can have the conversation," she said. "If you cannot explain it, don't hand me that word, don't use a word that you cannot describe because you don't know what you mean - or maybe you know exactly what you mean and you're afraid to say what you mean, so let's have that conversation. "Sit there and tell me what you mean by 'woke' and then we can talk about whether this show is woke or not.