Jeremy Clarkson’s “awful” comments about Meghan Markle have had “no washover onto the ITV brand,” according to CEO Carolyn McCall.
Addressing the now-disgraced Sun column from the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host this morning, McCall said she believed her team had “handled it well.” Clarkson is contractually committed to one further series of ITV format Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, a show he has been hosting for the past five years, and ITV is very likely to drop him after filming has ended, although McCall stressed that “neither Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
or Jeremy Clarkson have been cancelled by ITV.” “We’ve handled it well and been very clear,” she added. “We have said his comments were awful and I don’t think there has been any washover onto our brand.” Deadline revealed in January that McCall had written to a UK MP saying “there is no place on ITV” for Clarkson’s comments, following his mid-December column that said the former Top Gear host “dreamed of the day when [Markle] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant ‘Shame!’,” in a callback to a Game of Thrones scene.
He is also likely to be dropped by Amazon Prime Video once the current season of Clarkson’s Farm finishes filming and the UK press watchdog is investigating the column, which was swiftly deleted by Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspaper, although only after the damage had been done.
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