This years Sport’s Personality of the Year award has been surrounded by massive controversy after Fury was short-listed, given his comments about gay people and women.
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According to the broadcaster, the BBBC met on Wednesday to discuss the matter before informing Fury about the compulsory meeting.
Asked directly if he was a homophobe, he said: “No, definitely not. I’m a gypsy. I’ve [suffered racism] towards me for the last 27 years and you don’t hear me complaining about it. I don’t have anything to hide”. “Compensation, victim’s crime compo – here we are, me”. It is what it is.
Fury has also been accused of sexism after stating that a woman’s place was “in the kitchen and on her back”. So you’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth.
“Sometimes they can stay on the floor quite a while before the referee says gets up before anything is going on”, Fury adds. If Jesus loves the world, I love the world.
Fury, who is Catholic, said that among the things that need to happen “before the devil comes home…is homosexuality being legal in countries”.
A petition has been created calling for Fury to be removed from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year shortlist.
“I can’t say more but, as of yesterday, I am suspended by the BBC pending investigation”.
BBC news presenter Andy West has been suspended for comments he made on Facebook about the controversy surrounding boxing champ Tyson Fury.
High-profile promoter Eddie Hearn said Fury had an obligation to be a role model now that he was world champion, but believes he deserves to remain on the SPOTY shortlist given his performance in the ring against Klitschko.
The gay English-born Northern Ireland-based journalist said he wrote to the BBC director general Tony Hall to question Fury’s nomination after the boxer made homophobic and sexist comments publically before and after his title-winning bout against Wladimir Klitschko two weeks ago.
“I love all of God’s children”.
The Greater Manchester Police have confirmed they’re looking into reports of hate crime after Fury shared his views about “homosexuality” on Victoria Derbyshire’s BBC show.
Fury has labelled that a “joke” and instead suggested he should file a complaint for abuse he claims he has received.
But a GMP Police spokesman gave Fury a rare piece of good news when he revealed the fighter wouldn’t face action over the comments.
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“If Fury had made racist comments I am certain that the BBC would have never shortlisted him”.
