Feltz brands column ‘horrifying racism’
BBC presenter Vanessa Feltz has described a Sunday Times column that suggested she and Claudia Winkleman are well paid because they are Jewish as “horrifying racism”.
She said the piece by columnist Kevin Myers was “every vile stereotype about what Jewish people have ever been deemed to be by racists”.
Speaking on the breakfast show on BBC Radio London, Ms Feltz questioned how something “so blatantly racist” was allowed in the paper.
“When someone alerted me to it ... I couldn’t believe such a thing had been printed. It is absolutely gratuitous, not cleverly done, it’s blatant racism.
“When you see it like that it’s very horrifying,” said Ms Feltz.
The newspaper has said Mr Myers “will not write again” for the Sunday Times.