Coronation street actor Marc Anwar has been sacked with 'immediate effect' after allegedly posting a string of explicit and 'racially offensive' tweets.
The 45-year-old, who plays Sharif Nazir in the long-running ITV soap, reportedly branded Indians 'bastards' and 'piss drinking cunts' in the shocking rant.
One tweet read: "Why the Fuck do #pakistaniartists want work in #fuck face #india, do you love money so much.
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Another said: "Ban #india movies in #PakistanisLeaveIndia. Bastards pisss drinking #cunts."
Credit: Twitter via The Sunday Mirror
ITV said in a statement: "We are deeply shocked by the entirely unacceptable, racially offensive comments made on Twitter by Marc Anwar.
"We have talked to Marc and, as a consequence of his comments, he will not be returning to Coronation Street with immediate effect."
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Apparently, Anwar's rant was sparked by conflict between India and Pakistan following the deaths of 17 soldiers at a Kashmir army base.
The vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community told The Sunday Mirror: "I understand the frustration but it doesn't justify the kind of language he's used and blaming all Indians.
"It is one thing to campaign and another to say these kind of things on Twitter.
"There are atrocious human rights abuses occurring there. People are dying. I'm not for a minute undermining that. But he is a public figure and he's gone about this in the wrong way."
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We'll have to wait and see how Coronation Street will write his character out.
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