A veteran British broadcaster Danny Baker was on Thursday fired by the BBC after tweeting a picture of the well-dressed couple holding hands with a chimpanzee in a suit, tagged with the caption \u201croyal baby leaves the hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Accusations of racism immediately flooded his timeline, as new royal baby Archie has mixed-race heritage through mother Meghan, and he later took down the picture, apologising for the \u201cpossible connotations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the BBC announced Baker, 61, would be leaving his job as a presenter on Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody,\u201d said the broadcaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDanny\u2019s a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baker, who made his name as a music writer during the punk era, began his radio career in 1989 and has also presented television quiz shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He hit back at his sacking, saying the BBC \u201cthrew me under the bus\u201d and that the racial implications of his tweet \u201cnever occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWould have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It\u2019s a funny image,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But ITV news anchor Charlene White said the tweet was \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo post a pic picturing a 3-day old baby of mixed heritage as a monkey, then claim it was a joke? That\u2019s old-school prejudice and racism at its peak,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meghan and husband Prince Harry showed off Archie to the world for the first time on Wednesday after his birth on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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