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Racist Indian Actress Esha Gupta Slammed For Calling Nigerian Footballer Alex Iwobi A Gorilla
Racist Bollywood Actress Esha Gupta Slammed For Calling Nigerian Footballer Alex Iwobi A Gorrilla
A top fan of Arsenal FC and Indian actress Esha Gupta has been called out after sharing racist remarks aimed at Alex Iwobi on Instagram, describing the Nigerian as a ‘gorilla’.
After the Gunners’ FA Cup defeat by Manchester United on Friday night, the 33-year-old Bollywood actress posted a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation between herself and another person on Instagram. She has 3.4million followers on Instagram and 412,000 on Twitter.
The image showed messages exchanged between herself and Varun_Gupta17, with one of the messages reading, “Solves our winger issues. I can’t see that gorilla faced Iwobi running down the flank again. He’s so bad ya.”
She replied,”’Hahahahahaha I honestly dunno why they don’t bench him more.”
Varun_Gupta17 added, “It’s like evolution stopped for him. Didn’t change from Neanderthal to man.”
Gupta quickly deleted the screenshot from her Instagram account but eagle-eyed fans had quickly managed to screenshot before it was taken off the site.
After coming under fire on social media for the post she issued an apology and insisted there was no racial intention behind it.
Gupta wrote, “Guys I’m sorry you thought it was racist. Was bad on my part, being a sports lover.Wallah never meant it. Sorry guys forgive the stupidity.
“Well it was my fault. So gotta own up to my s***… sorry. It was us discussing our frustration during the game. Sorry as I didn’t realise it was directed towards racism.
“Laughed over spur of the moment, which was the games result guys.Been victim of racism myself before. But this is not something I’m proud of. It was a fault, sorry guys.”
Fans were quick to condemn Gupta on social media as she received major backlash for her post.
@Keiron85 tweeted her, “Your response is embarrassing! You state on one hand you’ve suffered racism yet on the other have no idea that you’ve made a racial slur!
‘Your ignorance and arrogance of this whole situation is beyond words! Please remove gooner from your profile! Your (sic) not part of our club/family.”
Meanwhile, @FootballDadUK added;
“Do us all a favour and never step foot at Arsenal and take the word gooner out your bio as you definitely ain’t (sic) one of us.”
Ojasope
January 29, 2019 at 7:21 AM
Just look at the ugly girl insulting an handsome man. Am not surprised, Indian can suck d asss of whites for all I care, I know they hate Nigerians.Gupta is acting foolishly just like her forefathers
Patoya Michael
January 29, 2019 at 7:41 AM
she her ugly lips. If u must insult someone look at ur self first
Danti
January 29, 2019 at 11:31 AM
Listen to a trash from hellish country. Hmmmmm!
Fifelomo
January 29, 2019 at 10:45 PM
Nonsense and ingredients!
Nik
January 30, 2019 at 12:51 AM
Funny enough, India as a whole is colour confused….More than half of your population are darker than Africans and you guys are so many and so poor….How dare you insult a handsome man who is above the average look of an India man? This lady is very sick and don’t forget your body odour!
Mon
January 30, 2019 at 9:26 AM
If we Africans can really understand who we are, then we will see this kind of statement are always said out of jealousy.. Black race is the original of white race..
Rosy
January 30, 2019 at 6:32 PM
See gorilla herself calling humanbeing gorilla