Keeping Up Appearances slapped with ‘woke’ warning over gay jokes
KEEPING Up Appearances has been given a ’woke warning’ on streaming service BritBox over a series of jokes mocking immigrants and the LGBT community. The 90s series, which ran from 1990 to 1995, follows highly-strung social climber Hyacinth Bucket and her long-suffering husband as she attempts to appear posher than she actually is. Iconically, she insists her surname is pronounced ‘bouquet’ instead of ‘Bucket’ to sound nicer, and tries to distance herself from her siblings. But, according to Daily Star, several scenes contain jokes that have now been labelled as ‘containing language and attitudes of the era that may offend’. This includes mocking a Polish person and questioning their right to live in the UK, and referring to a man as