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Britain’s Got Talent drops 500,000 viewers to 4.95m after Diversity’s BLM routine prompted 15,500 Ofcom complaints

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BRITAIN'S Got Talent lost half a million viewers after Ashley Banjo's Black Lives Matter dance routine. The BGT stand-in judge opened the return of the popular talent competition last week with his dance group, Diversity, who used the opportunity to highlight racial injustice.

But the controversial choice of performance seems to have cost BGT which lost 500,000 viewers in just one week after 5.3million people watched the first semi-final of 2020.

While half a million people decided not to tune in, the show still pulled in a staggering 4.95million viewers. It even smashed its closest rival in the ratings - The Last Night of the Proms - out of the park after it racked up only 2.1 million viewers.

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