Mike Graham has been suspended from his show on Talk following a ‘vile’ post to his Facebook page – which he insists was hacked.
The journalist, 65, was suspended from his breakfast show, Morning Glory, soon after the statement was published on Sunday.
The post featured a picture of a statue of Churchill alongside a picture of a crowded Tube carriage, with the caption: ‘Tell me we’re not f***ed by multicultural b***cks.
‘Why are we surrounded by non-white people? Just f*** off…’
The post was accompanied by a picture of former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill’s statue by Big Ben next to the train picture, whose passengers included a woman wearing a hijab.
After receiving a wave of backlash, the former Scottish Mirror editor deleted the statement and insisted the racist post was made as a result of his Facebook page being hacked.
But keen-eyed viewers were quick to point out that an almost identical photo of the statue of Winston Churchill had been posted on Graham’s X account just moments before the Facebook post was published.
On Monday, the host of the Plank of the Week podcast wrote on his X account: ‘On Sunday night my Facebook was accessed and a vile message was posted on my page without my knowledge.
‘It contained words that I would never write and an opinion I don’t share. As soon as I found out I immediately deleted the post and have taken steps to ensure my cyber security.’
Social media users were not convinced, pointing to the similar post on X, formerly Twitter, by Graham moments earlier.
In that post he shared the photo of the Westminster statue of Churchill, writing: ‘Britain today. Why are we here.’
Graham was suspended from his breakfast show on Talk, formerly TalkTV, and was replaced by Jeremy Kyle, but has now been let go from the broadcaster.
Mike Graham and Talk have been contacted for comment by the Daily Mail.
Last month, Graham raged against what he called the ‘bereft city’ of London after his car was broken into in a car park.
He discussed the break-in during his show on Talk on September 25, and criticised Sir Sadiq Khan amid his row with Donald Trump over the state of the capital, telling him ‘London is now a bereft city’.
‘You can’t walk down the street without being very careful not to get your phone out without being very careful and to watch all around you,’ he said.
‘It really burns me when I see Sadiq Khan talking as if London is the most amazing city in the world. It bloody well should be, but it’s not.’
Graham previously courted controversy during a memorable interview on Talk Radio when he suggested that concrete can be ‘grown’.
Interviewing an Insulate Britain environmental activist, Graham accused the young man of damaging the environment due to his profession as a carpenter.
Activist Cameron Ford responded that carpentry is ‘regenerative’ because trees can be regrown.
Graham responded: ‘Well you can grow all sorts of things, can’t you?’
Ford replied that ‘you can’t grow concrete’ before Graham bizarrely claimed: ‘You can’.
