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Saturday Night Live UK is religious to The Traitors.
Hosted by Riz Ahmed, SNL UK sent up nan biggest bid connected British tv pinch a sketch confronting claims that The Traitors contestants show unconscious group bias by voting retired group of color.
Side-stepping copyright concerns, SNL‘s sketch showed contestants trying to guidelines retired a “great large crab man” successful their ranks, astatine a information array featuring George Fouracres successful a awesome large crab costume.
Except nary of nan contestants could spot nan crustacean, arsenic they deliberated nether nan watchful oculus of Celeste Dring’s dark-fringed Claudia Winkleman. Instead, they focused their suspicion connected Ahmed’s character.
“I’d for illustration to start,” piped up 1 contestant astatine nan information table. “This acquisition has been amazing, but astatine nan extremity of nan day, we request to find nan awesome large crab man. But there’s personification present I conscionable don’t trust, and that personification is yourself, Imran.”
Ahmed’s Imran chimed in: “Okay, I’m conscionable gonna travel retired and say: Why is cipher looking astatine Sebastian?” Cut to a red-faced Fouracres. Imran’s protestations were not enough, and he was voted disconnected by his chap contestants — each of whom proceeded to spell his sanction incorrect connected their chalkboards.
Delivering his valedictory speech, Imran said: “I’ve had an astonishing time. It’s been an unthinkable journey, and I’ve made friends for life, but there’s thing weighing connected my bosom that I’ve sewage to travel retired and say: I’m evidently not a awesome large crab man.”
The sketch was a clear remark connected nan suspicion that group of colour brushwood unconscious bias connected The Traitors, pinch a number of Black contestants leaving successful early rounds. “Black group are treated differently, and examples of this connected reality TV are constant,” Athena Kugblenu wrote successful The Guardian of The Traitors earlier this year. “We’re not very ‘woke’ if we’re still amazed erstwhile Black group are kicked retired of reality TV shows first.”
