Legendary BBC Broadcaster Fired for Tweeting Picture of Chimpanzee as Royal Baby
A BBC broadcaster has been fired after tweeting a joke about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s newborn baby using a photograph of a chimpanzee.
Danny Baker, a veteran broadcaster and journalist in the U.K., earlier apologized for his “stupid unthinking gag,” which he claimed was not meant to have any racist undertones.
"This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody," a BBC spokesman said in a statement. "Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us."
“Royal baby leaves hospital,” Baker had tweeted, attaching a black and white photograph of a well-dressed man and woman holding hands with a chimpanzee wearing a bowler hat and jacket.
After fierce backlash by users aghast at Britain's first royal mixed-race baby being seemingly compared to a monkey, the 61-year-old deleted the offending tweet and apologized.
“Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up,” Baker wrote. “Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased. Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that's it. Now stand by for sweary football tweets.”
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he was shown the door. 
"It was just a JOKE!"
So long, fuckbrain... 
