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BBC radio host fired after racist tweet about Meghan and Harry’s baby

This is absolutely disgusting.
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The entire world celebrated the joy surrounding the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor.

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But in a shock turn of events, one British broadcaster tried to mar the happy time with a disgraceful tweet against sweet Archie.

On Wednesday, BBC Radio host Danny Baker thought it was appropriate to tweet out a black and white photo of a chimpanzee, holding hands with an English couple.

“Royal baby leaves hospital,” he captioned the image.

He then deleted the photo – saying he didn’t think it was racist. 

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Following his termination, he said, “‘The BBC must uphold the honour of blah-blah-blah’.”

“Basically, they said to me, ‘You meant that tweet’. I said to them, ‘You think so?'” [They said] ‘Well, we found it…’ and I said, ‘F— you’.”

He also apologised on Twitter: “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,” he wrote.

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