Jeremy Clarkson has said he is “horrified” his incendiary comments about Meghan Markle in a newspaper column have “caused so much hurt.” The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm star caused outraged over the weekend in an article for The Sun in the UK, in which he said the Duchess of Sussex should be “made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!” and throw lumps of excrement at her.” He added that, “Everyone who’s my age thinks the same way.” The article claims Prince Harry is constantly manipulated by Markle — a line often directed at the Duchess by detractors in Britain.
Clarkson also claimed he “hated” [Markle] on a cellular level,” with his comments coming after the launch of the final three episodes of Markle’s Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan last week, which contained several explosive barbs directed at the British media and the Royal Family.
Independent press regulator Ipso has so far received 6,000 complaints and even his own daughter Emily Clarkson wrote a message on Instagram Stories distancing herself from her father’s views.
Today, Jeremy Clarkson wrote on Twitter: “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.
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