Ant and Dec are the latest celebrities to apologise for their portrayal of people of colour on television.

The hosts of Saturday Night Takeaway (pictured) issued the following apology on Twitter.

"During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway, we impersonated people of colour in the undercover segment of the show.

We realise that this was wrong and want to say that we are sincerely sorry to everyone that was offended.

We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and certainly would not make 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steps to ensure footage was taken down, and have again recently confirmed with ITV that these segments, and any other historical content that could cause offence, does not appear on either the ITV hub or the Saturday Night Takeaway YouTube channel."

This follows Leigh Francis apologising for some of Bo' Selecta last week. 

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