ENCOURAGING ON-screen diversity and sharing the importance of representation in television, ‘Becoming The Person I Wanted To See’ features some of ITV Daytime’s most loved presenters opening up like never before.
The short film which includes personal, never-before-heard anecdotes from Loose Women’s Charlene White and Katie Piper, Lorraine Kelly and Good Morning Britain’s Ranvir Singh and Andi Peters will air today at 1:45pm and again at 11pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
Speaking on the impact that both positive and negative on-screen representation has had on his career to date Andi Peters shared: “We’ve got to become comfortable with the uncomfortable…It is still a sore subject.”
He added: “I get upset when people don’t believe in themselves, don’t let the colour of your skin ever hold you back. Don’t let who you are ever hold you back.
“Everyone can achieve, it might be harder for you and you might have to battle, but believe in yourself and eventually somebody else will believe in you.”
“We mustn’t fear the hard work… just get it done.”
Yiljan Nevzat, Filmmaker and Loose Women Deputy Editor said: “Coming from a minority background myself, it was important for me to not only celebrate representation but also allow for a candid, emotional conversation about what it really means to be diverse.
“The importance of diversity both on and off screen is paramount, and I hope that this film invokes change in both spaces.”
White spoke on her feelings of personal responsibility when it comes to representing the next generation of black female broadcasters: “I’d love to see more action… and being more forward-thinking and taking chances.
“I understand the impact of me rocking up on TV news with my hair like this. I understand the impact that can have on black girls up and down the country and I know how empowered they will feel seeing me.
“It’s never a responsibility that I’ve taken lightly and I’ll continue rustling feathers as a result.”
Watch Becoming The Person I Wanted To See today at 1:45pm and 11pm on ITV1 & ITVX
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Mr Peters and his ethnic colleagues, need to remember their Media promotion and success is due primarily to the needs of the BBC and ITV’s diversity quota.
The idea in England 2023, that African-heritage men and women can forget their African-heritage and “Become the Person (they) Wanted To See,’ is a Left-wing inspired POLITICALLY CORRECT pipedream.
“Compliant” African-heritage T.V. Presenter, Mr Andi Peters, has participated in a film that is the definition of PATRONISATION from the Politically Correct T.V. Media Executives.
I sincerely wish all His Majesty’s African-heritage Subjects will ignore and condemn this film.
In the real world, African-heritage people will not be allowed to ignore their skin-colour whilst “becoming the person they want to see.”
African-heritage people have African facial features; African hair, African body shape, African-skin; even our friendly Left-wing Caucasian colleagues’ notice and react to our African-features.
The idea that Mr Peters, and co believe that having African-skin has no impact on African-heritage people’s career success is ludicrously and dangerously wrong.
England’s African-heritage people do not need Mr Peters’ hubris.
Why are aspiring African-heritage people like the highly successful Mr Peters, so determined to blame African-heritage people for the skin-colour discrimination, that still limits African-heritage people’s upward mobility in England today?
The 2021, Dr Sewell’s Report also blamed African-Caribbean heritage Subjects for the skin-colour discrimination they encountered from England’s public and corporate institutions.
The 2017, Parliamentary Race disparity Audit (RDA) makes clear the devastating impact of having African-skin on upwardly mobile African-heritage men and women in England today.
This film; along with the political Left’s belief in “diversity” as the remedy and solution for the skin-colour discrimination against African-heritage people, patronise, creates false hopes, and humiliates His Majesty’s African-heritage Subjects.