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Kirsten McStay & Rose Hill

BBC Breakfast viewers wound up by 'woke' question as guest Rakie Ayola rolls eyes

A BBC Breakfast host has caused a stir with Twitter users after suggesting that some people would describe the characters in BBC drama The Pact as a "woke version of a Welsh family" to bemused star Rakie Ayola.

Show host Victoria Fritz had been speaking to Ayola, who has starred in a number of major TV shows over the years including Noughts and Crosses and Grace, about her role as DS Holland in the new series of the BBC drama when she made the comment, writes The Mirror.

The second series of the pact follows a new story as social worker Christine and her family's loyalties are tested when they're confronted by a stranger, who claim to have a connection that nobody could have imagined. Appearing on the BBC Breakfast sofa with Ayola, host Fritz said: "There will be some people who see this and will say this is a woke version of a Welsh family."

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