BBC Radio DJ Sacked Over Royal Baby Racist Tweet

BBC DJ, Danny Baker, 61, who has over 30 years experience on Radio and also had a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live tweeted a picture of a man and a woman holding a chimpanzee dressed in clothes and the caption: "Royal Baby Leaves Hospital."

He tweeted this on the exact day the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, to the world and posed for some photograph. The tweet was seen as a racist tweet because Megan's mother, Doria Ragland is African American.


Baker later tweeted that it was "supposed to be a joke about royals versus circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys and race." He apologized to little Archie saying:



“Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque. Anyway, here’s to ya Archie, Sorry mate,” he tweeted.


BBC Radio 5 Live controller Jonathan Wall said in an email to staff that Baker had shown poor judgment.

“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,” Wall said.

Baker still insists he is not racist. He attacked the BBC for its handling of the controversy. He said the call to fire him “was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity.”