Carol Thatcher

TV celebrity, and ex-British PM's daughter Carol Thatcher has been blamed for making a 'racist' remark about a tennis player on the One ShowNow I can understand that the meaning of communciation is the way its received, and that care should be taken to avoid giving offence, but did she really need to leave her job in the show over this? What did the target of her private remark make of it all?Have the 'Utterance Police' gone a phrase too far? As you can see from the Marmalade advert, which...Read Full Story

This is a guest post from Mar from The Mongoose Chronicles Rogue economist escaped to the bright side. Writer, talker, dancer, songwriter, singer, walker, runner, roamer, cook. Fierce lover of family and friends. Lover and defender of my womanness, Africanness, my Caribbean heritage, my Barbados, my right to take up my space and protect our space. In February of this year, Carol Thatcher, daughter of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was dropped as a roving reporter on BBC1's The One...Read Full Story

Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former PM Margaret Thatcher, called a French tennis star a "froggy golliwog guy", a BBC presenter said Saturday, in the first full account of how a sensitive race row flared.Carol Thatcher was this week dropped from her roving reporter role on "The One Show", the main BBC1 television channel's daily prime time topical programme, over the comment.The full details of her off-air remarks have been shrouded in mystery.But writing in Saturday's Sun, copresenter of...Read Full Story

Carol Thatcher, daughter of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher, has been sacked by the BBC after she refused to apologise for likening a tennis star to a “golliwog”, a racist term for blacks. Carol Thatcher, a roving reporter on ‘The One Show’, had been overheard making the remark off the air while she was chatting in the green room with one of her colleagues and some guests, after having “several drinks”. But, according to BBC bosses, Carol had “caused great offence” to those who...Read Full Story

Carol Thatcher, daughter of former British PM Margaret Thatcher, may face a BBC ban for referring to a tennis player as "a golliwog."Thatcher is a 'roving reporter' on the Beeb's The One show.On Thursday when she was in the green room with the show's presenter, Adrian Chiles, Thatcher referred to an unnamed male tennis player as "a golliwog."Chiles and others in the green room were offended by Thatcher's use of a word that is widely regarded as a racial slur, and told her so.Friends of...Read Full Story