Sacked BBC #Radio5 Live host #DannyBaker says he 'DIDN'T KNOW it was #MeghanMarkle who had given birth???' when he sent 'offensive' monkey tweet about Royal baby as #BBC friends rally behind him? ------- The #BBCRadio5 Live host said he had been 'literally thrown under the bus' as he was fired over the phone this morning, revealing he had told station chiefs to 'f*** off.' The broadcaster, who has now been sacked by the BBC three times – previously in 1997 and 2012 - denied he was racist as he spoke on the doorstep (left) of his £2million home in #Blackheath, ------- South east London after uploading an image (right) of a couple holding hands with a monkey underneath the caption 'Royal baby leaves hospital.' Baker, who branded the sacking phone call a ‘masterclass of pompous faux-gravity' (inset) deleted the picture as soon as the backlash mounted, but he insisted that it was about 'privilege and class' and not about race. -------- He had posted the image just hours after #PrinceHarry and Meghan, whose mother #DoriaRagland is African American, showed off baby Archie to the world at #WindsorCastle yesterday. But he insisted he was unaware which members of the royal family has welcomed a new baby, saying: ‘People say that I must have known that was Meghan's baby, but you're talking to somebody who doesn't even have a mobile phone.’ @video2fone #video2fone https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQm53NHVK2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vvpe1zij2xea
