BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Danny Baker has been fired after he shared a racist royal baby tweet.
Baker shared a picture of a monkey leaving a building with a woman and a man. He captioned the picture: ‘Royal baby leaves hospital.’
The racist tweet was slammed by the royal fans. Later, he deleted the picture after it sparked outrage.
Baker then tweeted: ‘Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.’
‘Soon as those good enough to point out it’s possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that’s it.’
He later tweeted: ‘Connection never occurred to me till people were good enough to enlighten. Little fella in posh suit. Anyway, deleted now.’
Baker has now been sacked by BBC for the controversial tweet. BBC confirmed in a statement which read: ‘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 also tweeted after being sacked: ‘Just got fired from @bbc5live.’
However, Baker now claims that he didn’t know it was Meghan who had given birth. He said:
‘I didn’t know which of our royal princesses had given birth. My go-to photo when any posh people have a baby is this absurd chimpanzee in a top hat leaving the hospital.’
‘Had it not been Meghan – perfectly good joke. I was trying to make a point about class and it’s just preposterous.’
Baker told MailOnline after being sacked by BBC: ‘Basically they said to me ‘you meant that tweet’ I said to them ‘you think so? And I said, ‘well f*** you and f*** off’.’
‘So, by mutual agreement, my employment was terminated. ‘They did not give me a chance to apologise. But I’m not very temperate anyway when people want to get rid of me. There’s no conversation.’
‘But for them to throw us under the bus. They wouldn’t have done it to certain Radio Four presenters. They would have had them in to discuss it.’
‘In a shocking faux-portentous gravitas way, [he said] ‘We found this to be abhorrent. Yes, it was [abhorrent]. And I was aware of the context of it I took it down. So I said ‘F*** you, f*** off.’
‘If I had had a grandchild yesterday I would have put that photo up. Once I was made aware of the context I said ‘oh sh**’ and took it down. But now the idea that I must have known…horse sh**. I do understand all of this. I get it.’
‘But for Five Live to chuck us under the bus, come one.’
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