Romesh Ranganathan's show Would You Rather axed after one series
Romesh Ranganathan's Prime Video series Would You Rather, which featured a cast of influencers, has been axed by the streamer after just a single series.
Romesh Ranganathan's Prime Video show Would You Rather has been axed after just one series.
The 48-year-old comedian hosted the programme that saw influencers - including Love Island star Chloe Burrows and former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here contestant Nella Rose - faced with dilemmas that pushed them to their limits but was met with poor reviews and viewing figures when it aired this summer.
A source told The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column: "Romesh is seen as a presenter with the golden touch, with a string of hit shows on various channels.
"But it seems even he couldn't save the show, which didn't land well with viewers despite pretty big influencers taking part."
Meanwhile, Romesh - who was born in Crawley to Sri Lankan Tamil parents - revealed earlier this month that his children had faced "horrible and abhorrent" racist abuse at school.
The Celebrity Traitors star - who has sons Alex, 16, Theo, 14, and Charlie, 11, with his wife Leesa - said on his and fellow comic Tom Davis' Wolf and Owl podcast: "The boys have had racist abuse. Not loads, not as much as I did, but they have had comments. We had a bit of an incident.
"One of the kids was chatting to a girl, just some friend at school, and one of the other kids said, 'I don't know why you're bothering to chat to her. You're going to end up marrying your cousin."
Romesh added: "Alex has had the P-word said to him when he's been walking around school."
The BBC Radio 2 presenter feels that the blame lies with the parents of the children making the offensive comments.
He said: "At a certain point you've got to go, 'They're obviously hearing that at home.'
"So whenever I see that, or I hear that a kid's done it, the next time I see their parents I'm thinking, 'You're racist,' right? And that's a horrible thing."
Romesh said while "racism is horrible and abhorrent", he thinks "it's a mistake to supercharge it".
The Weakest Link host continued: "What I mean by that is if somebody calls you a racial slur and it immediately ignites you, it gives that person power over you.
"I'm not saying you shouldn't react to racism, but I'm saying that immediately leading you to be violent is not something I want my kids to do."
