The tweets that led actress Shila Iqbal to lose her job has surfaced online.
The star was dismissed by ITV on Wednesday when the tweets, shared six years ago while she was at college, were unearthed and infuriated TV executives.
In one Twitter posting, she wrote:
‘Do not tweet me you gay.’
In another, which further outraged the show’s bosses, she wrote:
‘I know too many noisy n****s’ and followed it with a sad face emoji.
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The actress, who sent the insults when she was 19 and attending college in Rochdale, has apologized for her remarks and deleted her entire Twitter account.
She said: ‘
I am terribly sorry and take full responsibility for my use of such inappropriate language.
‘The only consideration I would ask is that I have recently received hateful tweets telling me that as a Muslim my Emmerdale role means that I am ‘committing sinful acts, promoting sin and deliberately going against the Quran’.
‘We live in sensitive times for members of all communities and especially those in multi-racial Rochdale where I grew up.
‘I regret that I too have let people down by the use of such language, albeit six years ago. I, like everyone else, have a responsibility about the language I have used on social media as well as in conversation.’
