Lorraine Kelly addresses ITV Studios evacuation
Scottish TV broadcaster Lorraine Kelly was chatting to fellow presenter Andi Peters last week on the subject of representation on-screen. Lorraine then revealed her concerns that she had failed to call out cultural stereotypes perpetuated by Death In Paradise star Kris Marshall, during an interview on her ITV show in 2020.
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Regretful Lorraine was referring to an interview she'd conducted with 47-year-old Kris.
The actor had been living in Guadeloupe for filming sessions for the murder mystery series, which now stars Ralf Little - and he attracted an enormous backlash when he made derogatory comments on the Lorraine show about his son "becoming a bit too Caribbean".
"I'm sure he didn't mean it, but he said something about the education system [in the Caribbean] not being fantastic and he wanted to bring his child to the UK," Lorraine recalled during her chat with Andi Peters on the What if? podcast with Lorraine & Rosie.
"I should have said: 'Hang on a minute, there's some really good schools there, you don't have to do that' - but I let it go."
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She added: "It was one of those ones where I should've said something but I didn't. That digs away at me."
Yet, an understanding Andi replied: "We're all guilty of that. When someone senior to me or in a position of power says something to me and I think: 'Oh no that's mildly racist', but if I call them out, they might then not wanna talk to me.
"But you have to go: 'No, I stand by my convictions'.
"If you said something racist, I need to tell you: 'You said something racist.'"
It comes after Kris, who played DI Humphrey Goodman between 2013 and 2017, referenced "four great years" on the show, but then appeared to sneer at cultural stereotypes he felt his child had adopted while living there, adding controversially: "I realised I really had to get my son to school."