In July 2006, rapper The Game referred to gay men as “faggots” and “not real men” on DJ Jo Whiley's radio show. This week, BBC officials determined that “the Game's comments were very offensive, completely unacceptable and clearly homophobic.”
I'm not sure what took them so long to figure that out. what they were also trying to determine was whether or not to take action against Whiley for the rapper's slurs. They decided that no, The Game acted on his own. According to WENN, “they decided not to take action against Whiley because she made a ‘sincere, full and swift' apology and distanced herself and the network from The Game's comments.”
While it was reported that any future interviews with The Game had been banned, the BBC denies that's the case, saying, “The BBC does not ban artists, but we do have editorial guidelines making clear that we do not condone homophobic comments or bad language, which all artists are expected to follow when they are on air during a live interview.”
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