Thursday, 5 February 2009

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Carol Thatcher's agent wants BBC to apologise

I'm A Celebrity winner upset over leak

Carol Thatcher's mum is former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Carol Thatcher's agent thinks the BBC should say sorry to the presenter after she was dropped from The One Show.

The 2005 winner of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! was axed from the programme after referring to a tennis player as a ‘golliwog’ during an off-screen chat.

‘Obviously they know what their agenda is and there is certainly an agenda behind this,’ Ali Gunn tells radio station TalkSport.

‘I would like to say that this comment was made in jest afterwards in the green room over a drink and no one objected to it at the time.

'I think it's absolutely outrageous that the BBC has condoned this leak.

‘They haven't even disciplined the member of staff and frankly we issued a fulsome apology that was rejected by them. But they should be issuing us with an apology.

'I would say that if her name were not Thatcher we wouldn't be talking.’

Carol, 55, has not been banned from the BBC completely.