Jeremy Clarkson has said he is “horrified to have caused so much hurt” after thousands of complaints were made to a newspaper regulator over a column he wrote about the Duchess of Sussex in The Sun. Here’s what you need to know.
The former Top Gear host wrote he “hated” Meghan Markle “on a cellular level” in the article, published on Friday, leading to more than 6,000 complaints to The Independent Press Standards Organisation in the UK. The number is almost half the total number of complaints the media regulator received in 2021, an Ipso spokesman confirmed.
British Television Personality Jeremy Clarkson Forced To Apologize Over His Disturbing Meghan Markle Column
“Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game Of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future,” Clarkson tweeted.
In the piece, Clarkson wrote, “We all know in our heart of hearts that Harold Markle is a slightly dim but fun-loving chin who flew Apache helicopter gunships in Afghanistan and cavorted around Las Vegas hotel rooms with naked hookers. But then along came Meghan, who obviously used some vivid bedroom promises to turn him into a warrior of woke.”
He then goes on to say, “At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her. Everyone who’s my age thinks the same way.”
In the final episodes of Harry and Meghan’s controversial Netflix docuseries, the Duke of Sussex describes the events leading up to the couple’s departure. He said: “I went in with the same proposal that we’d already made publicly, but once I got there I was given five options – one being all in, no change, five being all out. I chose option three in the meeting – half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the Queen. It became very clear, very quickly that goal was not up for discussion or debate. It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true.”
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