Saturday Night Takeaway prompts Ofcom complaints as fans slam 'triggering' and 'distasteful' fake baby scan prank
25.02.2023 - 23:55
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Saturday Night Takeaway viewers have blasted a prank in the new series which featured a dad-to-be attending a fake 4D baby scan. Minutes into the opening show of the 2023 series hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly introduced the audience to a couple in a restaurant, who were whisked from their date into the studio much to the husband's surprise.
It transpired that the husband is a prankster and his wife had had enough. So over the best part of a year she worked with Ant and Dec to get her own back on the ITV entertainment show.
Ant and Dec explained that they plotted with Amy after being told she was three months pregnant. Firstly they tricked her husband Liam by setting up a fake 4D baby scan, using an actress as a sonographer.
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Rock music was played and on the fake scan it appeared that the unborn child was pulling a rock and roll salute hand gesture in response to the sounds. Liam was then taken to a fake anenatal scan, and after their adorable son was born the wind-up continued with a set-up family photoshoot which had Liam being asked to pull silly faces as Ant and Dec watched it all unfold and fed instructions through ear-pieces.
Viewers flocked to Twitter to complain that the sketch was "in bad taste." @missfre_247016 said: "It feels in very bad taste." @snoopy63432704 asked: "Fake baby scan?? Too far, nothing but cruel." And @geordiegalg wrote: "This isn't sitting comfortably with me for some reason. Feels cruel. Weird thing to make a prank about."
@GJacques24 wrote: "As someone who has recently lost a child. I think it’s a bit disgusting to be joking around about something like this." And @TraylorHolmes
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