BBC DJ Fired After Royal Baby Tweet With Chimpanzee Picture

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Photo credit Royal fans John Loughery, left and Terry Hutt pose with flags and banners, outside Windsor Castle, in Windsor, south England, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, a day after Prince Harry announced that his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, had given birth to a boy. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

LONDON (AP) - A BBC disc jockey has been fired after using a picture of a chimpanzee in a tweet about the royal baby born to Meghan the Duchess of Sussex and her husband Prince Harry.

Danny Baker tweeted Thursday that he has been fired after posting an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes and the caption: "Royal baby leaves hospital."

The tweet was seen as a racist reference to baby Archie's heritage. His grandmother Doria Ragland is African American.

BBC bosses FIRE Radio 5 Live host Danny Baker for posting 'racist' royal baby tweet https://t.co/ScegOvBz4S pic.twitter.com/t82BtlwBRj

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) May 9, 2019

Baker says the posting was an "enormous mistake." It has since been deleted.

BBC Radio 5 Live controller Jonathan Wall said Baker "will no longer be presenting his weekly show for us."

Wall says Baker "made a serious error of judgment on social media."

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