British journalist Julie Burchill has been fired from the Telegraph following a racist tweet about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's baby girl.
Columnist Julie Burchill says she has been fired from the Telegraph following a racist tweet about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s newborn daughter.
The broadcaster took to her Facebook page to announce the news of her firing, claiming the Telegraph folded under pressure of “cry bullies” calling for her removal from the publication. “I’ve been sacked by the Telegraph – it’s been a lovely five years, and I’ll always be grateful to them for ending my Wilderness Years,” she wrote. “However, I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t often moaned to my husband recently about them always rejecting my *edgy* column ideas and giving me more pedestrian ones – which I’ve done splendidly anyway.”
The backlash came in response to a Tweet Burchill posted after Sunday’s announcement that Harry and Meghan welcomed their second child together, a baby girl named Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.The tweet references George Floyd, the man whose death sparked worldwide protests in response to police brutality and racism after he was murdered by officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis last year.
Earlier this year, she was forced to apologise and pay damages to activist and journalist Ash Sarkar after accusing her of being an Islamist, a terrorist sympathiser and of “worshipping a paedophile” .Martha Stewart‘This life is different’ – Saoirse Ruane’s mum shares positive updatePeople believe Gypsy Rose Blanchard never should’ve been sent to prison
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