BBC radio host fired over racist royal baby tweet
LONDON, United Kingdom - BBC radio broadcaster Danny Baker has been fired after posting a racist tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's new baby.
On Wednesday, the BBC Radio 5 Live presenter tweeted a black and white photo of a man and woman holding hands with a chimpanzee in a suit and a top hat, with the caption, "Royal baby leaves hospital."
Amid widespread accusations of racism, Baker deleted the tweet and said he was sorry the "gag" had "whipped some up." He claimed the connotations had not occurred to him because his "mind (is) not diseased."
In a second message, Baker said that the tweet was "supposed to be a joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted. Royal watching not my forte." On Thursday, the broadcaster said he made an "enormous mistake."
A BBC spokesperson said: "This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody. Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us."
Baker responded defiantly to the decision, saying on Twitter that the calls for his dismissal were a "masterclass in pompous faux-gravity" and that the BBC "literally threw me under the bus."
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3 Responses to “BBC radio host fired over racist royal baby tweet”
This racist @$$ h*** threw himself under the bus. How dare he think he is better than anyone, and to make fun of a baby is just being asinine and low class showing his true self. Why does he think his monkey looking, four eyes, yellow teeth, old ugly @$$ have the right to insult others. Well Mr racist....YOU’RE FIRED! Just look at him, yeah you would really want him around you.