BBC presenter sacked after comparing baby Sussex to a chimpanzee
BBC radio presenter Danny Baker was fired on Thursday over his absurd tweet about the newly-born royal baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor comparing him to a chimpanzee.
The presenter who later deleted the tweet posted a cartoon representing the royal baby as a chimpanzee in a suit, captioned the post “Royal baby leaves the hospital.”
The tweet about the royal baby has been doing rounds on social media in which it was considered that Danny Baker was mocking the duchess’s racial heritage.
However, he claimed that he had no intention insulting the royal baby and it was just a ‘gag’.
61-year-old Baker also apologised for his post.
“Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up,” he tweeted . “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.”
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. Now stand by for sweary football tweets
— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 8, 2019
The effort of the presenter was in vain as his name kept trending, the presenter repeated his apologies in a tweet.
Baker went on with another tweet, “Once again. Sincere apologies for the stupid unthinking gag pic earlier. Was supposed to be joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted. Royal watching not my forte”.
Once again. Sincere apologies for the stupid unthinking gag pic earlier. Was supposed to be joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted. Royal watching not my forte.
Also, guessing it was my turn in the barrel. pic.twitter.com/86cQGbAhDc— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 8, 2019
Later, the BBC 5 Live presenter turned on to his former employer feeling guilty.
The BBC also issued a statement on Thursday, “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.”
