Promotional image for The Chop featuring Rick Edwards, Lee Mack and carpenter William Hardie
Sky will not broadcast its TV carpentry contest The Chop after an investigation into a contestant's face tattoos found they "could be connected to far-right ideologies".The participant was accused of having Nazi symbols on his face, but he denies they have any such meanings.A statement said AETN UK, which runs the channel, had "made the decision not to broadcast any further episodes of The Chop on Sky History" following an "independent investigation".
It said: "A contestant's tattoos included symbols that could be connected to far-right ideologies and could cause offence; we sincerely apologise for that and we are sorry that our processes did not prompt further investigation at an earlier stage. "The contestant continues to strenuously deny that he has, or ever had, far-right leanings. We are thoroughly reviewing our internal processes following the investigation. AETN UK and Sky History stand against racism and hate speech of all kinds."
Really a shame that a promising show that hundreds of people worked hard on has to be completely axed. Unless the guy actually won the bloody thing surely it should be salvageable through editing/blurring?
It’s a shame I enjoyed the first episode.
You learn something new everyday. I’ve a friend whose house number is 88 - fucking clost nazi!
Disappointing news. Feel bad for the contestants who would have sweated it out each week. Would be nice to see their work.
Shame , wood of liked to have watched . Could of been poplar .
I am now offended by something I didn't know existed on a TV show I would never have watched.
I thought 88 ment two fat ladies..oh buggar bet I've upset some one else now
Haha he totally won, didn't he?
I seem to have stumbled into a Nazi forum ... Whoops.
I wood have done the same thing
It’s nothing to do with tattoos. No one is interested or watching it.
No tattoos should have been mentioned in the pre-casting selection criteria.
Fcuking pathetic
People are so excited to complain about 'Wokeness' that they are defending a man with tattoos on his face that mean 'White Power' and 'Heil Hitler'. The poppy shagging brigade really don't have any sense of irony, do they?
Wooden it be appropriate as well to axe the whole team who though this bloke was an appropriate candidate during audition and then filmed him before twigging he might not be the best guy for The show
A lot of people in these comments choosing a weird hill to die on 😬
If that’s what you believe in, so much as to tattoo it on your face, then why deny it just to appear on a tv show?
You've, err, missed a key word out of that headline lads
Please axe Strictly... I'm sure the fact there's NO actual celebrities on it is fraud.
Feel sorry for the people who were expecting an honest wage from this, and were not involved
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The chop got the chop. Missed a trick there.
BBC trying not to hurt the Tory fan base Could be connected? What?
Face tattoos are stupid but there’s an easy way to figure whether the 88 is actually representing the year the guy’s dad died. Ask him or check records. Don’t just cancel a whole show on a “maybe” you won’t even check. The guy’s name is tainted because people remember headlines.
Sky?
Cant they just edit out the individual? Why axe the whole show? Unless he won?
At least we see less of Rick Edwards
Yet again pandering to the cancel culture mob. The guy says they are not Nazi related, so should it not be innocent until proven guilty? I'm fairly sure pretty much everything might be offensive to someone. If you find it offensive then don't watch it.
It’s plane stupid, but tere has to be rules. It’ll shave some costs off the budget
BUT A 300mm TATTOO OF A HAMMER AND CYCLE WOULD BE PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE!! DEFUND THE BBC!!
Woke wins again. Life used to be prima facie. Now, it would seem liberals spend their time looking to highlight what 'might be' rather than what is. Projecting their own interpretation and self-loathing has simply drawn some attention to what most would not have even noticed. Sad
This was the right call. Everyone (crew, cast, etc) should all suffer job loss because of this. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is the only rational solution here. When I see tattoos in real life I don’t like, I call the police. Thank you skytv for protecting me!
Who will take offence to the tattoos, Jews, BLM or veterans from WWII or will it be hindus who basically own the nazi symbol. This is all BS!
Fair play if he has got Nazi/far right tattoos knowingly.. But the question I ask is apart from Historians and Nazis (I assume the ones that appear on the channel know the meanings) who knows that 88 etc is Nazi symbolism?! It was all over Twitter.
This is such ancient news ...
The new ‘woke’ brigade claim another self righteous victory - laughable
His white supremacist tattoos you mean!
'It said the number 88 referred to 1988, the year of Mr Lumsden's father's death.' Except his father's very much alive. Your article should make that clear.
I wish I could think a witty wood-related adjective describe this cancellation. 🤔
Any reality show chopped is good news to me even if it is for woke snowflake purposes
Snowflakes the lot of them...had they not pointed it out.....just saying....
A self fulfilling prophecy if ever there was
For context I would have definitely mentioned that his dad *is* in fact still alive so he just straight-up lied about the 88 on his cheek, but that’s just me!!
Wasn't this news last week?
I think we know who wins the thing then SPOILER
Why are you contacting him for comment but not his dad, who is in fact alive?
Grow up 😡😡
Pathetic. What is this deranged obsession with the Far Right given the violence, intimidation, and censorship of the left? BLM riot in the streets, XR shutdown roads and junctions, immigrants go all stabby-stabby with alarming regularity, but all we ever hear is Far Right BS
No slap on the wrist though?
Couldn’t they plane them off
Old news
Wow humans can still go this low.
Who cares We will just know that he is, or more likely once was, a knob. PC gone mad. The world is absolutely fucked up!
Yet no proof hes a nazi....well done to all them muppets who have just ruined a guys life because you saw something and got offended over nothing...congratulations
Bloody hell, is there any job or craft that doesn't get a reality show? Next up, Origami Wars!
Really need to get a grip of themselves before jumping to conclusions immediately...but it's Sky, they're all a bunch of SJW nutjobs there...
Cancel culture being allowed to propagate its 'if we don't like it, get rid of it' ideology, once again.
The show should've been cancelled anyway just for being a TV show about CARPENTRY...what's next...a show about watching paint dry!? Haven't watched TV in years and I'm glad I'm clearly not missing out on much!
Sky itself is a code it’s the future war of the machines, take the first letter from the position of each letter nineteen, eleven twenty, put them in order you get SKYNET, terminator
You see this is where I’m showing my naivety I would not of known what any off them numbers mean
C4 will buy it!
More Woke bollocks.
I've seen some really tacky tattoos on left-wing activists.
That’s a shame, I enjoyed the first episode. Can’t they pixel is head or something. ?
I would 88 to be part of the Sky production team on this.
Idea for a programme cooking with Hitler if you don't do it sky will. Could film it in a Pub Car Park.
Obviously a shite low view show anyway
bloody fash in this thread...
An entire tv show cancelled over something that 'could be' something bad...
Lots of people complaining about ‘nannying’. I watched the first episode and enjoyed it immensely. However, if the guy had ‘88’ tattooed on him - anywhere, and it is found that he did this to show his allegiance to the far right nazi movement, they were right to cancel.
Everything can be offensive if you WANT IT TO BE...just saying🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
BBC News, up to date and on the ball as usual...
Is the Welsh leadership next?
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1988 was clearly the year of his father’s death, unless you account for the fact that he’s still alive.
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Can't stop laughing at all the MSM like SkyNewsPolitics guardian Channel4News itvnews et al who supported this sucker at the last election...
DefundTheBBC boycottbbc scum
Meanwhile on the streets of London..
Won't anybody think of Lee Mack? Poor guy, interviewing a cheeky chappy with neo nazi tattoos on his face....
2 extreme left, Anti English, Anti White, Anti Patriot, British TV networks, fighting like Rats 🐀 in a fkn sack, over who is “wokest” .... a plague on both their houses!! bbcnews skynews
Say antisemitic BBC, it’s okay
As Sky have allowed this atrocity to get this far, shouldn’t Sky itself also be closed down? They may cause offence to someone, somewhere again. We must stand up against anyone who may cause offence of any kind to anyone.
I thought they were all for Diversity. 😁
Great joke axes The Chop 😂🤣😂
'could be'.
Zeig fail.
Well I did Nazi that coming
horrible
Just pixelate his bloody face for the whole series
Agggggghhhhhhh!! We better axe it because we got 1 leftie complaint!!.
‘Could’ cause offence ? Really ? You think ?
Well that’s ruined my ideas for a pun, nice work.
Must leave room for another cooking show surely ? Cooking in woods perhaps? Could even get Ray Mears to light the fire.
uh oh lol
Over contestants neo-Nazi tattoos, I think you mean.
I see puns, lots of puns...
that headline is too cruel
Chop chop.
Come on lads, the headline to this one should write itself...
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