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Jeremy Clarkson will remain host on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? “for now,” confirmed ITV boss Kevin Lygo.
Lygo slammed the 62-year-old presenter’s comments about Meghan Markle, calling his tirade “awful”.
In an editorial published by The sun On Friday, Dec. 16, Clarkson wrote that he dreamed of the day Markle would be forced to parade naked across Britain as crowds chanted “shame” and threw “feces” at him.
Clarkson claimed that “everyone my age thinks the same way”.
The sun has now removed Clarkson’s comment from its website. “In light of Jeremy Clarkson’s tweet, he asked us to remove last week’s column,” the page now reads.
More than 60 MPs from all parties wrote to That of the sun editor to demand an apology and “action taken” against Clarkson. The SNP shadow culture minister has also called for Clarkson to be banned from television altogether.
Ipso confirmed on Tuesday December 20 that it had received more than 17,500 complaints about the presenter’s column, more than the total it received in 2021.
Clarkson says he’s ‘horrified to have done so much harm’
A reminder of Clarkson’s response to the argument caused by his column in The sun.
It wasn’t an apology as such, but Clarkson said he was “horrified to have caused so much harm.”
“Oh dear. I kinda stepped foot in it,” he wrote on Twitter. “In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made an awkward reference to a scene from game of thrones and it went wrong with a lot of people. I am horrified to have done so much harm and will be more careful in the future.
Tom MurrayDecember 22, 2022 01:31
This isn’t the first time Clarkson has made derogatory comments about Markle.
While many people are rightly shocked by Clarkson’s comments in The sun, it is far from the first thing that the former Top of the line the presenter said about the Duchess.
Under, The Independent collected seven occasions the TV personality researched Markle.
Tom MurrayDecember 22, 2022 12:16 a.m.
Emily Clarkson has denounced the media’s ‘inhumane’ treatment of Markle days before her father’s op-ed
Days before Jeremy Clarkson’s op-ed was published on December 16, his daughter Emily condemned the “inhumane” treatment of Markle by the media.
On December 14, alongside a screenshot of a post blurb that read: “Harry and Meghan release another Netflix trailer for their show War on the Palace ahead of three new episodes dropping TOMORROW “, Emily wrote a long caption.
“My steadfast defense of them has never been of individuals I don’t know, but rather of two people who have, objectively, been treated appallingly,” she said.
“It’s bullying on a massive scale,” Emily continued. “I feel DEEP discomfort at our lack of humanity towards these two people.”
Following the publication of Clarkson’s column, she spoke out against her father, opposing “everything my father wrote”.
Emily Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson
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“I’m standing in support of those targeted by hate online,” the podcast host said.
Inga ParkelDecember 21, 2022 8:10 p.m.
Writer Joyce Carol Oates says Clarkson should be taken by “his word”
Joyce Carol Oates, the writer who penned the 2000 historical fiction novel Blondabout Marilyn Monroe, think we should take Clarkson “at his word”.
“When an individual like Jeremy Clarkson publicly admits ‘cellular hatred’ of a black woman,” she wrote on Twitter, “we should take him at his word: racism is primitive, irrational, sub-human emotional violence. human and sub-ethical directed against someone perceived as “other”.
Inga ParkelDecember 21, 2022 7:30 p.m.
James O’Brien says Clarkson ‘has got to go’ on new podcast episode
James O’Brien thinks Clarkson “needs to go” after his “disgusting” op-ed against Markle.
Although he doesn’t normally buy into “that kind of response to off-air behavior having on-air consequences”, the radio presenter said he believed “society demands standards”.
Therefore, “I don’t think they can keep him on the job,” O’Brien said on Wednesday’s (December 21) episode of his “The Whole Show” podcast.
“Almost everyone (except the weirdest people on the planet) agrees it was absolutely disgusting.”
Inga ParkelDecember 21, 2022 7:00 p.m.
Police confirmed that Clarkson will not be investigated over the article, despite calls from some critics that it was considered hate speech.
Louis ChiltonDecember 21, 2022 6:30 p.m.
Over 60 MEPs have written to The sun complain about the item.
Louis ChiltonDecember 21, 2022 6:00 p.m.
The ITV boss has confirmed that Clarkson will not be removed from his role as presenter of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
He, however, condemned Clarkson’s article in strong terms.
Louis ChiltonDecember 21, 2022 5:30 p.m.
Piers Morgan weighed in on the matter with what many might call a predictable response.
Louis ChiltonDecember 21, 2022 5:00 p.m.
I will re-share some of the main stories from the last day.
First, the news that Clarkson’s story had broken the record for the number of complaints filed with Ipso, the independent press standards body.
Jeremy Clarkson’s article on Meghan breaks Ipso complaints record
Jeremy Clarkson’s column where he expressed his hatred for the Duchess of Sussex broke Ipso records as the most criticized article of all time. The Independent Press Standards Organization has received more than 17,500 complaints – more than the total amount they received in 2021. In his article for The Sun, the former Top Gear presenter said he dreams of the day when Meghan would be paraded “naked” in “every city”. in Britain” as the crowd threw “chunks of excrement” at him. Mr Clarkson has since said he was “horrified” by the “injuries” caused, pledging to “be more careful of the future”. Subscribe to our Newsletter.
Louis ChiltonDecember 21, 2022 4:30 p.m.
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