Saved by the Bell reboot came under fire last week over a scene in which characters joked about Selena Gomez's kidney transplant, which she underwent in 2017 after receiving a lupus diagnosis several years earlier.
02.12.2020 - 18:53 / perezhilton.com
The Saved By The Bell creative team has heard Selena Gomez fans loud and clear. In response to backlash the series received after insensitively referencing Gomez’s kidney transplant from 2017, the new reboot edited out the controversial scenes in question.
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For those who missed it: in the sixth episode of the new SBTB, two students carelessly debate over who donated the kidney to Selena, bickering back and forth as they throw out random
Saved by the Bell reboot came under fire last week over a scene in which characters joked about Selena Gomez's kidney transplant, which she underwent in 2017 after receiving a lupus diagnosis several years earlier.
Selena Gomez wasn't amused by 's jokes about her kidney transplant, a source close to the singer tells ET.«Selena was really upset by the scene about her health and thought of it as bullying and offensive,» the source says of Gomez, who underwent a kidney transplant in 2017. «She felt as though her kidney transplant, and others who have gone through that, was used as a joke at her expense.» Peacock's reimagining of came under fire after its release, when jokes about Gomez's transplant were made.
revival no longer features jokes about Selena Gomez.The all-new Peacock series, which is a reimagining of the beloved '90s sitcom, has removed all references to the singer's kidney transplant following outrage from fans.«We apologize.
Selena Gomez’s 2017 kidney transplant amid mounting internet backlash, according to reports.The series, which premiered last week on NBC’s streaming service Peacock, caught heat on social media over the weekend, as two students at the fictional Bayside High School debated the identity of Gomez’s kidney donor in an episode.
Days after catching backlash for jokes made about Selena Gomez’s 2017 kidney transplant, an episode of Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” reboot has been edited to remove them. Clips from the episode were shared on social media by fans who were largely appalled that the show would make light of her kidney transplant.
Peacock is owning up to its mistake in their new series, Saved By The Bell.
Selena Gomez ” began trending this week after Peacock’s Saved By the Bell reboot joked about the star’s health multiple times. Enraged Selenators took to social media to voice their disdain over the series using the 28-year-old entertainer’s kidney transplant as a punchline.
Saved By the Bell gave an apologetic statement to , saying they'd be making a donation to Selena's charity: “We apologize. It was never our intention to make light of Selena’s health.
Saved By The Bell reboot is already in hot water with Selena Gomez fans after its debut.The revival - which follows on from the hit early 1990s sitcom chronicling the lives of Bayside's high school students (Zack Morris, AC Slater, Kelly Kapowski etc) - recently premiered in the US on American NBC streaming site Peacock (currently not available in the UK) introducing a range of new characters (and some alumni cameos) to bring the students into the 2020s.One of the new episodes discusses Selena
Peacock, NBC Universal, and executive producers of the "Save by the Bell" reboot shared their apologies after fans took offence to an episode that made fun of Selena Gomez's kidney transplant.The hashtag #RespectSelenaGomez trended on social media shortly after and fans demanded an apology after Episode 6 highlighted the singer's battle with lupus. Fans may remember that the "Rare" hitmaker underwent a kidney transplant to treat the disease.
Peacock has apologized for aSaved By the Bellepisode that referenced Selena Gomez's kidney transplant in a brief scene as well as donated to the singer's lupus charity following social media criticism over the episode. "We apologize.
The woman who donated one of her kidneys to Selena Gomez is speaking up about a very uncool time in the pop star’s life.
Francia Raisa is speaking out against the reboot's joke about Selena Gomez's kidney transplant.
Selena Gomez have expressed their outrage this weekend, after NBC’s Saved By The Bell reboot joked about the singer’s 2017 kidney transplant.Despite Gomez’s public statement that she had received a transplant from her close friend, actor Francia Raísa – who later suggested that the singer “could have died” from complications surrounding the surgery – one of the new episodes features two Bayside High students speculating about the identity of the donor.“I know for a fact that Selena Gomez’s
Saved By the Bell reboot stepped on the wrong foot of Selena Gomez fans recently. The show, which recently began streaming on a streaming service in the US, left fans of the singer upset after they joked about her kidney transplant.
Francia Raisa has broken her silence regarding the Saved By the Bell reboot making jokes about Selena Gomez‘s kidney transplant surgery.
The Saved By The Bell re-boot is walking back a joke it made at the expense of Selena Gomez after her hard-charging fans went after the new show!