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Perri Kiely wants Diversity BLM routine’s Bafta nom to restart racism debate despite death threats and 27,000 complaints

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DIVERSITY dancer Perri Kiely hopes the group's Bafta nomination will reopen the controversy surrounding their BLM performance - despite its members suffering death threats and being subject to 27,000 Ofcom complaints.

Despite admitting he'd felt "genuine fear" at the "constant, personal threats" received after the Britain's Got Talent routine - which featured a reenactment of George Floyd's murder by police officer Derek Chauvin - the Dancing on Ice star said he was willing to face another backlash if it "keeps the conversation alive".

Perri, 25, said: "Touching on subjects as big as what we talked about, we were always going to get a lot of complaints. "It would have been weirder to not talk about it so we did our job, we stood up for.

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