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Ant and Dec Apologise and Remove Podcast Promo After Mental Health Concerns
Ant and Dec removed a promo video for their new podcast after viewers called its hanging imagery triggering, apologizing for any distress caused by the content.
- On January 17, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly apologised and deleted the promo video posted on their Belta Box Instagram and X on Friday, which showed them suspended from a washing line with feet dangling.
- Intended as a play on the podcast title, the promo featured washing line imagery with the line `Hanging out with Ant and Dec, our new podcast, is coming soon`, while Dec declared `This is not what we meant by hanging out`.
- Followers and social-media followers criticised the promo as 'horrendous' and 'triggering', urging removal and asking what mental-health charities like Samaritans and NHS 111 made of it.
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Ant and Dec issue apology after deleting 'upsetting' video announcing new podcast
Ant and Dec issued an apology after deleting a post on Belta Box X and Instagram accounts announcing Hanging Out With Ant & Dec podcast
·Bradford, United Kingdom
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