Chris Curtis, a producer of The Greg Hill Show on WEEI-FM in Boston, issued an on-air apology Thursday morning for a racial slur he made against ESPN analyst Mina Kimes.
Curtis came under fire Wednesday after a video surfaced of him using the slur in reference to Kimes on the show when discussing mini liquor bottles, often referred to casually as “nips.” He will also be suspended from the show for nearly a week.
“In a pathetic failed attempt at a one-liner, I attempted to bring up Mila Kunis, which was not really that funny, sophomoric and sexist,” Curtis began. “But for reasons I don’t understand, I said Mina Kimes. That was never the intention for me to say her name. It had nothing to do with the subject matter and it dragged her into a controversy through no fault of her own regarding a slur and her race, and it is not at all what my intention was. But it doesn’t matter because of the absolute chaos that my words created for someone who is just doing her job covering the NFL at ESPN.
