NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A longtime BBC radio host has been fired following a racist tweet about the royal baby.
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Danny Baker tweeted a picture of a couple with a chimpanzee.Baker denied it was meant to be racist but later called it "an enormous mistake."
He also ranted on twitter about being fired.
"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," said a BBC spokesman.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced the birth on Monday. The royal couple said their son, seventh in line to the British throne, is named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.