Danny Baker has accused the BBC of throwing him under the bus, following his tweet about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s son Archie.
Last May, the 62-year-old was sacked from his BBC Radio 5 Live show after seemingly comparing the royal baby to a monkey.
Following baby Archie’s birth, the broadcaster shared a picture of a couple leaving a hospital, holding hands with a chimpanzee, with the caption: ‘Royal baby leaves hospital.’
Baker denied there was any racist intent behind the tweet, calling it a ‘catastrophic mistake’.
But while he understands the backlash he received, it seemed Danny still isn’t on the best of terms with the BBC.
Speaking on Tracy Ann Oberman’s podcast Trolled, the DJ said: ‘The BBC threw me under the bus immediately.
‘I’ve never had a great relationship with them. I think it was a good gesture they could do to say “look what we do, how we deal with it”.
‘Because I’m not clubbable, and I don’t know all that lot… the funny thing to me was, well not the funny thing, there’s nothing funny about it, but one of that mob, who fired us and rung us up, and was rude to my wife as well, so I kind of look forward to seeing them at some do one day. Nothing violent but there’s one or two phrases I’d like to…
‘I think that was an easy one they can chalk up on the board and say “look at this”. Whereas had I been to university with some of them and all this…’
Baker continued: ‘A few weeks later, one of those was on that panel about diversity in radio – five white blokes sitting there, all my age. And then they made a joke of it, yeah we did think it was ironic and we did point it out. Oh, you get a chance to explain and pass your little internet Twitter jokes. Me? No, we fired him.’
The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star then claimed he was supported privately by hundreds of celebs, saying: ‘I had 200 or 300 direct messages from people in showbusiness. But a few said “I’d love to come out and support you publicly but I’ve got a mortgage.”
‘I did not feel sorry for myself, because I shouldn’t.’
Despite being angry about his sacking, the star said: ‘Everything I got I deserved.’
‘Mine was the most catastrophic mistake. The most outrageously catastrophic mistake, born out of something so trivial and the consequences of it so disastrous.’
Baker maintains he did not know who the royal baby had been born to, and that Meghan’s mother Doria Raglan is black.
Since leaving the BBC, he has started his own podcast, The Treehouse.
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