NZ tv star fired after calling Susan Boyle “retarded.”

New Zealand  tv-star Paul Henry has been fired after telling viewers, Susan boyle was "starved of oxygen at birth" and therefore suffered an intellectual disability.

"If you look at her carefully, you can make it out," he said, "Here's the really interesting revelation: she is in fact retarded."

He later apologised to viewers.  "I am sorry that some people have taken what I said in a way that I never intended."

Anthony Flannery, Television New Zealand's head of news and current affairs, said Henry's comment had overstepped the mark and "we apologise to those who were hurt and distressed by it".