Bashir sorry for ‘Asian babes’ faux pas

TV INTERVIEWER Martin Bashir apologised after he had a “moment of stupidity” and made a “tasteless” comment about Asian women, it emerged yesterday.

Bashir, who came to prominence after interviewing Diana, Princess of Wales, about her failed marriage in 1995, issued the apology after making the sexist comment in a speech at the Asian-American Journalists’ Association annual banquet in Chicago in July.

In a letter to the organisation, published in New York Magazine, Bashir, 45, wrote: “Upon reflection, it was a tasteless remark that I now bitterly regret.