Chris Moyles under fire for 'racist' Polish prostitute comments

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Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles is in hot water over flippant remarks suggesting Polish people make good prostitutes.

As if the BBC needed further unwanted publicity, following the Andrew Sachs scandal and John Barrowman's recent on-air striptease, the network is facing more controversy after Moyles joked on his daily breakfast show:  'I've always found in my experience, prostitutes make very good cleaners, and their ironing, brilliant.'

He added: 'I just find if you're Polish you're just very good at ironing… and prostitutes… very good also at fixing cars, so hopefully that's not going to give me a problem in the car department.'

The BBC received 32 complaints over Moyles's blunder and the Polish community in the UK are said to be up in arms over the ill-judged remarks. They have even been prompted to launch a petition over what they say were racist comments and demanded an apology for the 'offensive' and 'nasty' comments Moyles made.

The TV network has responded to the angry fall-out by backing the DJ – who takes home £650,000 a year - and saying his words have been misinterpreted.

Jan Mokrzycki, president of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, said: 'This is another man making stupid remarks not knowing what he is talking about.'

'I would be very happy if the BBC asked him to apologise. People are organising a petition about those comments and we would support them in it,' he added.

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Thursday 4 December 2008

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