May 1, 2013
Rapper Lil Wayne (real name Dwayne Carter) has finally issued a public apology to the family of slain teenager Emmett Till. Wayne caused controversy earlier this year when he appeared on the remix of Atlanta artist Future’s unreleased single ’Karate Chop’ and rapped the line, “beat the p*ssy up like Emmett Till.” Emmett Till was a 14 year old African-American boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955, after he reportedly whistled and flirted with Carolyn Bryant, a 21 year old Caucasian woman. Click here to read more. Till’s family demanded an […]
March 14, 2013
Former footballer turned boxer Curtis Woodhouse received an apology live on television this morning from a Twitter troll. James O’Brien had been sending a series of abusive tweets for up to eight months to the boxer, but had to apologise after Woodhouse eventually snapped, tracked down O’Brien’s address details via his Twitter followers and drove to the troll’s home to discuss matters further. The final straw came when O’Brien called Woodhouse a “disgrace” after he lost his English light-welterweight title last week. Woodhouse drove from Hull to Sheffield and tweeted a […]
February 23, 2012
I laughed out loud on the train when I read this story this morning. How did ITV News manage to get this oh so wrong??? What a mess. Via The Telegraph ITV News has apologised after it used the word “coloured” in a report on racism in football. The offensive term was used during a report by ITV News reporter Richard Pallot on the racism in football summit at Downing Street on Wednesday. ITV News apologised shortly after the broadcast on its […]
February 15, 2012
Whatever Sony! Via BBC News Record label Sony has apologised for increasing the price of two Whitney Houston albums hours after her death on Saturday. The wholesale cost of the two LPs – Houston’s Ultimate Collection and Greatest Hits – went up by around £3 each, causing an automatic price increase on iTunes. In a statement, Sony said the albums had been “mistakenly mispriced”. It added the error was “immediately corrected” once it had been discovered. Houston fans had taken to Twitter […]
January 10, 2012
This is just sickening. Via The Evening Standard The Met has been forced to make an extraordinary public apology to a mother wrongly arrested and accused of assaulting an officer as bailiffs attempted to clamp her husband’s car. Detective sergeant Nick Westwood made the “humbling” apology to Alison Richardson in front of scores of her fellow churchgoers over the “upset and distress” caused when she was arrested in 2008. Mrs Richardson was taken into custody by as many as eight officers after […]
October 4, 2011
This past weekend P Diddy was filmed at a BET Hip Hop Awards after party verbally abusing a club patron for drinking alcoholic beverage Grey Goose. You see Diddy took offence to the fact that the man wasn’t drinking his brand of poison Ciroc. Diddy (a big old man in his forties) then felt he had the right to throw a drink over the man and then kept calling him a “bitch ass nigga” before rapper T.I stepped in and calmed the situation down. Click HERE to watch […]
August 10, 2011
The BBC has apologised to Darcus Howe after newsreader Fiona Armstrong accused him of taking parts in riots, during a live interview on Monday. Watch the interview below. …………….. Via The Telegraph The BBC said Armstrong had not intended to show Howe any disrespect and the questions were intended to gauge his reaction to the events. News Channel editors acknowledged it had been a ”poorly-phrased question” but said this sometimes happened during live interviews and the incident was compounded by technical issues […]
June 3, 2011
Don’t mess with South London girl Naomi! She will drag you and your whole crew through the courts. Via The Media Guardian Confectionery giant Cadbury has apologised to Naomi Campbell after the supermodel claimed an advert comparing her to one of its chocolate bars was racist. The advert for Cadbury’s Bliss range of Dairy Milk chocolate bars used the strapline “Move over Naomi, there’s a new diva in town”. Campbell said she was “shocked” by the ad, intended as a tongue-in-cheek play on […]
June 17, 2010
South Africa is hosting the biggest show on earth (The World Cup) and now here come the jokes…. Via The Guardian TV/radio personality Chris Evans has apologised for posting a joke about poverty in Africa and the World Cup on Twitter. Evans retweeted a joke about African football fans and the noisy horns known as vuvuzelas that had been circulating on the micro-blogging site. “Apologies for last retweet didn’t read it properly,” he said. “Never meant to offend. Not funny at all.” […]
February 11, 2010
Singer John Mayer has apologised via Twitter for his disastrous Playboy interview and for uttering the word “nigger”. He wrote, “Using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that […]
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