Strictly Come Dancing star Du Beke ‘mortified’ by Paki comment
October 10th, 2009 - 12:53 pm ICT by ANILondon, October 10 (ANI): ‘Strictly Come Dancing star’ Anton du Beke has said he was ‘mortified’ after using racist comments for his show partner Laila Rouass.
The dancer came under fire when he told Laila, who has an Indian mum and a Moroccan dad, that she looked like a “Paki” after she got a spray-tan.
Du Beke later apologised for using the offensive term and his apology was accepted by the actress.
‘I would just like to reiterate my apology from last weekend to Laila, to everybody on the show really and to everybody who watches the show because I feel embarrassed, I feel stupid as well,” The Telegraph quoted him as saying on spin-off show ‘It Takes Two’.
‘It was a stupid thing to do. Now people are talking about that when they should be talking about the show, the great show that it is, and as I say I’m mortified about it completely and Laila has been quite remarkably wonderful,’ he added. (ANI)
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