British BBC radio presenter Danny Baker sacked for ‘racist’ royal baby tweet featuring chimpanzee

Veteran British broadcaster Danny Baker was on Thursday fired by the BBC after tweeting a picture of well-dressed couple holding hands with a chimpanzee in a suit, tagged with the caption “royal baby leaves hospital”.

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 “possible connotations”.

But the BBC announced Baker, 61, would be leaving his job as presenter on Radio 5 Live.

“This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody,” said the broadcaster.

“Danny’s a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us.”