";s:4:"text";s:5543:" "Literally threw me under the bus. Sincere apologies for the stupid unthinking gag pic earlier. saying: "A lot of black players are complaining about noises being made to them. A twice a week meeting, we can rule the world. "Ayesha Hazarika, a commentator and former adviser to the Labour Party, told 5 Live she was "genuinely gobsmacked" by the tweet.
No, I'm aware how delicate that imagery is. Danny Baker responds to 5 Live sacking over royal baby tweet BBC 'right' to sack Danny Baker over tweet says presenter Royal baby: Duke and Duchess of Sussex name son Archie A twice a week meeting, we can rule the world.
"Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came.
Danny Baker has been FIRED from his BBC Radio 5 Live over a 'racist' royal baby tweet. He chats to James O'Brien about his remarkable life. Could hear the suits' knees knocking. Royal watching not my forte.After tweeting an apology, in which he called the tweet a "stupid unthinking gag pic", Baker said the BBC's decision "was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity".
(Though not of course in that context.) "The things that are happening to black children up and down the country are not enhanced by his words and I'm glad that prompt action has been taken, and let's hope we have come thoughtful dialogue and learning from this. '"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology.
It was so crass. Danny Baker: Sacked BBC radio host to start new podcast The former radio host, who came under fire over a tweet, says the podcast will follow a similar format to his Radio 5 Live show. The 61-year-old presented a Saturday morning show on the network.The corporation said Baker's tweet "goes against the values we as a station aim to embody". "In a later tweet, he added: "Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. "His comment about red sauce references the Sausage Sandwich Game from his 5 Live show, in which listeners choose what type of sauce a celebrity would choose to eat.Once again. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct. "You can't just say sorry and then carry on like it's business as usual. And that's it. Danny Baker was sacked from Radio 5 Live following an outcry over his royal baby tweet (Picture: Rex Shutterstock) Danny Baker has been fired from … Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased. It's a funny image. "Baker, 61, was dropped by the BBC earlier this year after tweeting a photo of a well-dressed couple holding hands with a suited chimpanzee, which was captioned: "Royal baby leaves hospital. Emails encouraged, calls taken, subjects bizarre. These are external links and will open in a new window "The BBC said Baker's tweet was a "serious error of judgement".Baker said the day he was sacked was one of the "worst days" of his life and He said the phone call he received was a "masterclass of pompous faux-gravity" and claimed the corporation "literally threw me under the bus".Fans complained of "double standards" after comedian Jo Brand, who In a statement, it said it would be taking "no further action". "Broadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: "I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down. I thought it was a spoof. "Emails encouraged, calls taken, subjects bizarre.
Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.
Enormous mistake, for sure. Was supposed to be joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted. "Harry and Meghan, whose mother Doria Ragland is African American, After the initial backlash on social media on Wednesday, Baker said: "Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. "Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came.
Baker was also a successful magazine journalist, scriptwriter and TV documentary maker.He wrote a number of TV shows including Pets Win Prizes and Win, Lose or Draw and, in 1990, The Game, a series about an amateur soccer team in east London.A stint at BBC London station GLR in the late '80s saw him strike up an enduring friendship with fellow broadcaster Chris Evans, and Baker would later write scripts for the Channel 4 show TFI Friday, which Evans hosted.It's the second time Baker has been axed by 5 Live and is the third time he has left the BBC.He later claimed he had never incited fans to attack the referee, only that he would have understood if they had.