BBC presenter says he was racially abused outside a Greater Manchester pub
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBBC radio presenter Nihal Arthanayake says he was racially abused during a bizarre exchange with a man outside a pub in Trafford.
Nihal, who hosts Radio 5 Live's afternoon show, said he was waiting for his wife outisde a pub in Altrincham where they had been drinking when he got chatting to a 'drunk man.' And in a video posted on Twitter, he said the man asked him if he was a doctor before calling him a p*** and also using the n-word. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community "So, last night this happened to me and I am still trying to process the weirdness of it" he said in the post sharing the video, in which he explained what happened but didn't name the pub.
In the video itself, he said: "I don't really know what just happened. I was in a place called Altrincham, which is a bit of a hole.
I was outside this pub which I'd been in with my wife, dancing around, jumping around etc. It was fun. Covers band, they were very good. "I saw this man sitting outside, I was waiting for my wife to come out, so I said 'can I come and sit with you, can we talk?' and he was like 'Yeah, yeah absolutely.' Little, kind of drunk man. "We got talking and he said 'oh are you a doctor?' So I started laughing because it's a question as an Asian you might get asked.
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