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"Frank Skinner has said that he was not a fan of Red or Black?. Talking on his Absolute Radio podcast, Skinner quipped that hosts Ant and Dec &amp;quot;represent pure evil&amp;quot; for their role in the show. Skinner said: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think any of us for one moment thought it would be the glimpse through the gates of hell that the programme has turned out to be. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s quite significant the colours red and black are the colours of the devil, and indeed Nazi Germany.&amp;quot; Skinner continued: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll tell you what Simon Cowell has done, he&amp;#039;s looked at the success of The X Factor and Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent, and he thought, &amp;#039;Do we need the talent part of this? Can&amp;#039;t we just have like 50/50 guessing?&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s made me feel very differently about Ant and Dec... to me now they represent pure evil. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m now starting to think that Ant could be short for Anti-Christ, and Dec may be December, you know, the end of days, the dark times. I do, I think they&amp;#039;re presiding over the death of British society.&amp;quot;   Skinner joked of the participants: &amp;quot;They have been embraced by Lucifer, the souls of the contestants belong to Ant and Dec. &amp;quot;I honestly think that this is a filthy, vile virus at the centre of British society that&amp;#039;ll bring us all down. I think Ant and Dec should be hung up like Mussolini and Peretta Petucci.&amp;quot; Red or Black? struggled in the ratings during its first run on ITV1, but ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has said that it could be given a second series. &amp;quot;There are some things we would do differently - ways you could change the programme,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;But there are long-term brands you have to invest in.&amp;quot; You can catch Frank Skinner every Saturday morning from 8am on Absolute Radio &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Red or Black?&amp;#039; contestant Nathan Hageman &amp;#039;won&amp;#039;t pay assault victim a penny&amp;#039; &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Red or Black?&amp;#039; format dismissed by ITV in 2003 Watch Darren Thompson win \u00A31 million during the first series of Red or Black? below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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