<p class="title">Veteran British broadcaster Danny Baker was on Thursday fired by the BBC after tweeting a picture of the well-dressed couple holding hands with a chimpanzee in a suit, tagged with the caption "royal baby leaves the hospital".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accusations of racism immediately flooded his timeline, as new royal baby Archie has mixed-race heritage through mother Meghan, and he later took down the picture, apologising for the "possible connotations".</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the BBC announced Baker, 61, would be leaving his job as a presenter on Radio 5 Live.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody," said the broadcaster.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Baker, who made his name as a music writer during the punk era, began his radio career in 1989 and has also presented television quiz shows.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He hit back at his sacking, saying the BBC "threw me under the bus" and that the racial implications of his tweet "never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But ITV news anchor Charlene White said the tweet was "unacceptable".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"To post a pic picturing a 3-day old baby of mixed heritage as a monkey, then claim it was a joke? That's old-school prejudice and racism at its peak," she wrote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meghan and husband Prince Harry showed off Archie to the world for the first time on Wednesday after his birth on Monday.</p>
<p class="title">Veteran British broadcaster Danny Baker was on Thursday fired by the BBC after tweeting a picture of the well-dressed couple holding hands with a chimpanzee in a suit, tagged with the caption "royal baby leaves the hospital".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accusations of racism immediately flooded his timeline, as new royal baby Archie has mixed-race heritage through mother Meghan, and he later took down the picture, apologising for the "possible connotations".</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the BBC announced Baker, 61, would be leaving his job as a presenter on Radio 5 Live.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody," said the broadcaster.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Baker, who made his name as a music writer during the punk era, began his radio career in 1989 and has also presented television quiz shows.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He hit back at his sacking, saying the BBC "threw me under the bus" and that the racial implications of his tweet "never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But ITV news anchor Charlene White said the tweet was "unacceptable".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"To post a pic picturing a 3-day old baby of mixed heritage as a monkey, then claim it was a joke? That's old-school prejudice and racism at its peak," she wrote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meghan and husband Prince Harry showed off Archie to the world for the first time on Wednesday after his birth on Monday.</p>