F1 driver Lewis Hamilton apologises for calling his British hometown a ‘slum’

When Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton spoke on stage at the 2018 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, he chose an unfortunate word to describe his hometown.  

Hamilton used the word “slum” to describe Stevenage in the UK. His exact words were: “It really was a dream for us all as a family to do something different. For us to get out of the slums. Well, not the slums, but to get out of somewhere and do something.” (The Oxford Dictionary defines a slum as “a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.”)

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