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		</div><p>Danny Baker has said he wants to “formally apologise for the outrage I caused” following “one of the worst days of my life”.</p>
<p>The DJ was sacked from BBC Radio 5 Live for tweeting a joke about the Duke and Duchess Of Sussex’s son featuring a picture of a chimpanzee.</p>
<p>He said he was “not feeling sorry for myself”.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Good morning, everyone.<br />Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.<br />I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.</p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Baker (@prodnose) <a href="https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126782940590088192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.</p>
<p>“I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.</p>
<p>“In attempting to lampoon privilege and the news cycle I went to a file of goofy pictures and saw the chimp dressed as a Lord and thought, ‘That’s the one!’</p>
<p>“Had I kept searching I might have chosen General Tom Thumb or even a baby in a crown. But I didn’t. God knows I wish had.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Good morning, everyone.<br />Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.<br />I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.</p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Baker (@prodnose) <a href="https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126782940590088192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me.</p>
<p>“F**k, what had I done? I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it’s basest.</p>
<p>“I am aware black people do not need a white man to tell them this. Deleting it immediately and apologising for the awful gaffe I even foolishly tried to make light of it. (My situation that is, not the racism involved.) Too late and here I am.</p>
<p>“I would like once and for all to apologise to every single person who, quite naturally, took the awful connection at face value. I understand that and all of the clamour and opprobrium I have faced since. I am not feeling sorry for myself. I f****d up. Badly.</p>
<p>“But it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake. …</p>
<p>“I am now paying the price for this crass and regrettable blunder and rightly so. Probably even this final word from me will extend the mania. (‘Dog whistle’ anyone?) I would like to thank friends on here for their kinder words and once again – I am so, so sorry.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me. Fuck, what had I done? I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it&#39;s basest.</p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Baker (@prodnose) <a href="https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126782943815446528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>On Thursday, Baker, 61, insisted he was no “downbeat racist wretch” after he was sacked for what his bosses said was a “serious error of judgment”.</p>
<p>He blasted his bosses for their handling of the controversy and said he was trying to make a point about class.</p>
<p>The DJ, who has been sacked from the station before, had tweeted a black and white image showing a well-dressed man and woman holding hands with a suited chimpanzee, which he captioned: “Royal baby leaves hospital.”</p>
<p>The tweet came on the same day Harry and Meghan, whose mother is African American, posed with their new arrival, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.</p>
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<p>Following a backlash and accusations of racism, he deleted the post and apologised.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just got fired from <a href="https://twitter.com/bbc5live?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bbc5live</a>.<br />For the record &#8211; it was red sauce. Always.</p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Baker (@prodnose) <a href="https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126419088765595648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>But, speaking to journalists outside his London home, he said it was “weasely for the BBC to chuck us under the bus”.</p>
<p>He revealed that he ended his “lecture” from his bosses “with two very old fashioned Anglo-Saxon words”.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Once again. Sincere apologies for the stupid unthinking gag pic earlier. Was supposed to be joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys &; race, so rightly deleted. Royal watching not my forte.<br />Also, guessing it was my turn in the barrel. <a href="https://t.co/86cQGbAhDc">pic.twitter.com/86cQGbAhDc</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Baker (@prodnose) <a href="https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126230936197259265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Baker alerted fans to his sacking when he tweeted “just got fired from BBC 5 Live”, before the BBC had made a statement.</p>
<p>BBC Radio 5 Live previously dropped Baker’s soccer phone-in show in 1997 when the broadcaster’s news chief Tony Hall, now the corporation’s director general, said he had crossed “the line between being humorous and controversial and being insulting”.</p>
<p>His BBC London 94.9 show was also axed in 2012, days before he was due to be inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now it&#39;s started raining. Perfect. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IntoEveryLife?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IntoEveryLife</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Danny Baker (@prodnose) <a href="https://twitter.com/prodnose/status/1126426135674404864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The DJ has been unafraid to publicly criticise his BBC bosses, calling them “pinheaded weasels”.</p>
<p>Baker, who hosted a weekly show on 5 Live, made his name as a journalist on the punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue before going on to work at NME and launching a career in TV and radio.</p>
<p>He denied bullying campmates in 2016 when he was the first in the series to get the boot from I’m A Celebrity.</p>
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