DJ sacked for mocking Queen’s Christmas speech.

A radio DJ in Birmingham has been sacked after making a joke and cutting the Queen’s Christmas day speech short. Tom Binns interrupted the speech on BRMB saying “two words: bor-ing”. He followed this with a joke about going from one queen to another and played a 

George Michael song at the end of the speech.

In an interview, Binn’s told the comedy website Chortle, “I was working on my own on Christmas Day; I’d even had to let myself into the studio. After the guy before me finished, we should have taken the news from Sky, and then my show would start. But instead of the news, we got the Queen’s speech. I knew it shouldn’t be there, but having never heard it before, I didn’t know how long it was going to go on for. I’m not trained to make editorial decisions, but I decided to get rid of it and make a joke.”

He received a “couple” of complaints and said, “One man got really angry, he sent me a message saying I should be sent to Basra and hoped I’d get killed by a roadside bomb. That was so nasty it really got to me, given that it was Christmas and I’ve seen in graphic detail the effects those bombs can do as I’ve worked with [forces’ radio] BFBS. I rang him up – off-air – to give him a piece of my mind, but other than that almost all the texts we received were in support of what I’d done.”

David Lloyd from Orion Media Group said that, “'We do not condone what he said in any way.” There was an apology broadcast on air by the station as well as personal appologies to those who complained. Binns had an eventful Christmas outside of work as well as he got engaged on Christmas morning.