British broadcaster Clive Myrie said he was left “shaken” after receiving death threats which involved “talking about the kind of bullet that he’d use in the gun to kill me”. The Mastermind presenter is set to co-host the BBC’s election night coverage alongside Sunday morning political show presenter Laura Kuenssberg. Myrie is taking over from previous anchor Huw Edwards, who resigned and left the BBC earlier this year after allegations that he paid a young person for sexually explicit photos.
The 59-year-old spoke about receiving more racial hatred since becoming a more prominent and “visible” presenter during an interview with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. He said he had received faeces and “cards in the post with gorillas on”, as well as emails which read: “You shouldn’t be on our TV; you dress like a pimp”. “But one chap issued death threats, and he was tracked down and prosecuted, and his death threats involved talking about the kind of bullet that he’d use in the gun to kill me and this kind of stuff,” Myrie said.
“I was shaken for a while after I’d been told. I thought it’s just someone showboating. It’s just bravado.
“And then they tracked down this character, and it turned out that he had previous convictions for firearms offences. So (I) thought, ‘Oh my God, what, if anything, might this person have been planning?’.” Myrie, the son of Windrush generation parents from Jamaica, spoke about how th.
