BBC broadcaster Danny Baker, who was fired from BBC Radio 5 Live after posting what he claims was an “unthinking gag pic” but what many interpreted as a deliberately racist tweet, says he told the head of the station to “f*** off.”
A few hours after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son was born, Baker posted an old-time, black and white photo on Twitter showing an aristocratic couple holding hands along with a chimpanzee in a suit and wrote, “Royal Baby leaves hospital.”
DANNY Baker has issued an apology over a “racist” royal baby tweet showing a picture of a monkey.
The BBC Radio 5 Live host…https://t.co/9yC9QgUlpd pic.twitter.com/8j0DQtnvRi— Networkofnews UK (@NetworkofnewsUK) May 9, 2019
There was one big problem: Markle’s mother is African American. It didn’t take long for the tweet to be condemned as deliberately racist.
For his part, Baker quickly took the post down, apologized and said he meant […]
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