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Agents part ways with Dane Baptiste after social media post ‘threatening woman’

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Agents for Dane Baptiste have parted ways with the comedian after a now-deleted social media post that appeared to threaten a woman.

The stand-up, who has appeared on comedy panel shows including Mock The Week and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does and fronted the sketch programme Bamous, apologised to the “ community, my colleagues and my fans” on Thursday.

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