Reporter Martin Bashir is extremely sick with COVID-19. Bashir currently works as a religion editor for BBC News. He joined the network following stints at ABC and MSNBC.
Bashir resigned at MSNBC in 2013 after he referred to former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a “world-class idiot” suggesting on-air that someone might defecate in her mouth.
“We are sorry to say that Martin is seriously unwell with Covid-19 related complications,” the Network said. “Everyone at the BBC is wishing him a full recovery. We’d ask that his privacy, and that of his family, is respected at this time.”
He joined BBC News in 2016 after hosting anchoring ABC’s Nightline show. In 1995 he got Princess Dianna to admit to an affair during an explosive interview.
He also made the 2003 ITV/ABC documentary Living with Michael Jackson, in which Martin Bashir interviewed Michael Jackson over a span of eight months, from May 2002 to January 2003, about different aspects of his life.
