Miriam Margolyes asked Andi Peters 'what are you'. ITV cut it and said nothing.
On ITV's This Morning, Margolyes assumed Peters had a white parent and called him 'high-yalla'. The clip has passed 5 million views.
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What was said
Margolyes suggested a black father and white mother. When Peters said both parents are black, she called him 'high-yalla', a plantation-era term for lighter-skinned black people. Peters told her the producers were 'getting nervous'.
ITV's edit
ripx4nutmeg's post, at 1.5 million views, says ITV cut the exchange from the online version and issued no apology. Narinder Kaur, at 187,000, reads Peters' calm as a black presenter managing someone else's racism on air.
The scrutiny argument
Stephen Pollard's Telegraph column calls her 'an irrational disgrace' and says a straight white man would have been cancelled years ago. AntSpeaks, at 463,000 views, notes she was there to promote a book about racism and the far right.