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| Thatcher barred from The One Show | Thatcher barred from The One Show |
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| Carol Thatcher will no longer work on The One Show after being reported for making a racist remark, the BBC has announced. | Carol Thatcher will no longer work on The One Show after being reported for making a racist remark, the BBC has announced. |
| The former prime minister's daughter referred to a tennis player as a "golliwog" backstage during filming of the BBC One programme. | The former prime minister's daughter referred to a tennis player as a "golliwog" backstage during filming of the BBC One programme. |
| However, the 55-year-old will not be banned from the BBC as a whole. | |
| The corporation said it had hoped Thatcher would issue an unconditional apology but she had declined to do so. | The corporation said it had hoped Thatcher would issue an unconditional apology but she had declined to do so. |
| Her spokesman told The Times she made the remark in a conversation with the show's presenter Adrian Chiles in the green room and it was "meant as a joke". | |
| "Carol never intended any racist comment," he said. | |
| "She made a light aside about this tennis player and his similarity to the golliwog on the jam pot when she was growing up. | |
| 'Mortified' | |
| "There's no way, obviously, that she would condone any racist comment - we would refute that entirely. It would not be in her nature to do anything like that. | |
| "It is disgusting that we've had a leak of private conversations in the green room - the BBC has more leaks than Thames Water. | |
| "Carol is mortified that anyone should take offence at a silly joke. She has summarily apologised." | |
| According to press reports, the comment was made during a conversation about the Australian Open tennis tournament, in reference to a player who had recently been knocked out of the men's singles draw. | |
| Thatcher, crowned Queen of the Jungle in the 2005 series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, was a regular contributor to the BBC One prime-time magazine show. |