OMG Miriam Margolyes Andi Peters

Nice bit of whataboutery there. And not even correct. Journalistic style is to capitalise Black.

This is only one of many explaining why

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php

Speculation she was drunk. Bluesky picking it up

Nothing would surprise me about her - she's a vile, vulgar excuse of a human.

She really is as clever as two short planks.

IMO, Metro's capitalisation of the written form of this spoken quotation is itself extremely racist:

"So you’ve got a Black daddy and a white mummy."

'Well, lucky I think,” responded Margolyes. “Because I like the Egyptian people. I’m on the side of the Palestinians.”

What a massive prat. She 'loves Egyptian people'. Egypt also has a massive border with gaza and they certainly don't let gazans in but don't mention that Farty Pants Margolyes!

MM proclamations are not those of a dignified individual, so there's nothing for me to demean.

I didn't target her, but responded to her horrible behaviour in a way that is similar to how she conducts herself. What's good for the goose and all that...

From the standard:

The Standard has contacted Margolyes’ representative for comment.

This isn’t the first time the Little Dorrit and Babe actor - who last year shared plans to move to Italy - has sparked outcry with her comments about people’s race.

In 2024, she was blasted for asking Australian presenter Waleed Aly about his skin colour during an appearance on the panel show, The Project.

As the panel were speaking about the ongoing war in Gaza, Margolyes, who is Jewish, said she felt that a “ceasefire” needs to happen immediately, adding: “Whether you’re Black or white, it doesn’t matter.”

She then turned to host Aly and asked: “What are you by the way?
You’re sort of brown.”
While the question prompted gasps from some of the audience,
Aly said: “This is a really interesting question actually. I’ve thought about this a lot. I’m not joking about that… I’m Egyptian.”

“Oh really,” Margolyes replied.
“Which is in Africa. So, what do you want to call that?” he asked.
“Well, lucky I think,” responded Margolyes. “Because I like the Egyptian people. I’m on the side of the Palestinians.”

I’d say it’s pretty ignited on twitter / X. Last time I saw, Andi Peters was trending and Miriam margolyes popped up in several posts as I was scrolling

Anyone has TT, here she is this week , in my eyes she is purposely trying to make the interpreter feel awkward , I think she gets off on making people feel uncomfortable and none of it is accidental vm.tiktok.com/ZGdQdW2yc/

Metro

https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/04/miriam-margolyes-interrogates-andi-peters-race-live-tv-uncomfortable-interview-29532766/

Your comment is worse than racism. It isn’t commonly held ignorance, it’s targeted attack intended to demean.

She's an ignorant trout. Reminds me of an auntie of my ex - dead posh, well-educated, but ignorant as fck. There are a lot of skin colours and mixed race people in the extended family.
If there was a black kid present (weddings, funerals etc) she'd rub their hair and ask "where are you from?". They'd reply with where they lived - so she'd ask "but what is your ancestry?". She had to be 'managed', and kept away from certain people.
She's in her 90s now, and upsetting everyone in her nursing home.

Just checked Reddit and there's been nowt.

Maybe they were checking things out and being ultra careful, presumably. What with her being the right kind of national treasure

That's good, it was tumbleweed earlier on.

The mainstream media has started giving this some attention in the last few hours, with articles on the Metro and Yahoo News.

I wasn't disagreeing, just adding my 2 cents.😉

I need no excuse, as I was not after the high ground at all.

The last actual acting stuff she's done is Call the Midwife but basically she exists to be the BBC and channel 4s favourite twinkly foul mouthed great aunt substitute on jaunts disguised as documentaries about wine making or Australia. Has she really got 4 houses?!?

Yes it is odd that only TV guide seems to have picked up on it. As I mentioned normally this would ignite on Twitter but I don't have access to that now that nitter is gone. Has anyone referred to it in Bluesky? If it had been say John Cleese making the same comments the commentariat would have exploded

I said it was for the presenter to deal with?

I like Miriam - I think she's very talented and obviously completely eccentric. Generally I do like outspoken people, as long as it's done with respect and warmth.

This interview was awful and surely she knew her comments/questions were totally out of order.

It sadly showed a huge level of racism, very disappointing. Andi handled it with such class.

A lot of people in entertainment, particularly actors, seem to be attention seekers. Probably down to deep insecurity. I have no patience with this kind of behaviour. It's all me, me, me and they get the arse if no one toadies to them.

The presenter, in this case Andi Peters have to steer the conversation away from potentially damaging remarks. In the case of Margoyles, the producers know she is an attention seeking loose lipped liability, I don't think she should have been on the Morning show in the first place.

I remember once on QVC. The huest was Joan Rivers, another one who liked to shock. She went too far (for that kind of programme) they immediately cut to a break, and when they resumed....she was gone.

Brain cell?

You didn't know she was gay are you sure ? She has never ever hidden the fact.