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BBC forced to apologise as EastEnders star says a racial slur live on air
BBC Radio 4's Sarah Montague was forced to issue an apology after the EastEnders star said a racial slur live on air.
John - who first appeared on the soap in the Eighties - went on to note the differences to filming when he returned in the late Noughies, recalling an incident when show bosses changed a racial slur in the script to 'illegal immigrant'. BBC Radio 4's Sarah Montague was forced to issue an apology after EastEnders star John Altman (pictured in 2022) said a racial slur live on air John appeared in the first episode of EastEnders and was an integral part of the show's first big storyline - murdering elderly resident Reg Cox (Johnnie Clayton).
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