The double Olympic champion prompted complaints to the BBC after cracking an anti-Irish joke.
The 53-year-old was on The One Show when he made the remark about a torchbearer with a tattoo bearing the misspelling ‘Oylmpic’.
He joked the tattooist must have been Irish – before being told it was done in the USA.
The BBC issued an apology after complaints were made, adding Thompson’s comments ‘were clearly meant as a joke’.
In a letter to one complainant, the license payer funded corporation wrote: ‘Thompson's comments about this were clearly meant as a joke but we apologise if any offence was caused; it certainly wasn't our intention.
‘Matt [Baker] corrected Daley straight away and Alex [Jones] offered an on-air apology at the end of the show.’
The 53-year-old was on The One Show when he made the remark about a torchbearer with a tattoo bearing the misspelling ‘Oylmpic’.
He joked the tattooist must have been Irish – before being told it was done in the USA.
The BBC issued an apology after complaints were made, adding Thompson’s comments ‘were clearly meant as a joke’.
In a letter to one complainant, the license payer funded corporation wrote: ‘Thompson's comments about this were clearly meant as a joke but we apologise if any offence was caused; it certainly wasn't our intention.
‘Matt [Baker] corrected Daley straight away and Alex [Jones] offered an on-air apology at the end of the show.’
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