Update, 07:38Am: Sugar has subsequently apologized and deleted multiple tweets on the subject, “I misjudged [my] earlier tweet. It was in no way intended to cause offence, and clearly my attempt at humour has backfired. I have deleted the tweet and am very sorry.”
The BBC said in a statement, “Lord Sugar has acknowledged this was a seriously misjudged tweet, and he’s in no doubt about our view on this. It’s right he’s apologised unreservedly.”
Piara Powar, executive director of anti-racism group Fare (Football Against Racism in Europe), told the BBC that Lord Sugar’s “stereotyping of a whole race” was “disgraceful and damaging”.
Earlier Story, 04:23 Am: ‘You’re fired…’ Alan Sugar, the UK business magnate and face of the BBC’s The Apprentice, has come under fire for what many are calling a ‘racist tweet’.
In the tweet, under a picture of the Senegal soccer team,...
The BBC said in a statement, “Lord Sugar has acknowledged this was a seriously misjudged tweet, and he’s in no doubt about our view on this. It’s right he’s apologised unreservedly.”
Piara Powar, executive director of anti-racism group Fare (Football Against Racism in Europe), told the BBC that Lord Sugar’s “stereotyping of a whole race” was “disgraceful and damaging”.
Earlier Story, 04:23 Am: ‘You’re fired…’ Alan Sugar, the UK business magnate and face of the BBC’s The Apprentice, has come under fire for what many are calling a ‘racist tweet’.
In the tweet, under a picture of the Senegal soccer team,...
- 6/20/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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