Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm host Jeremy Clarkson drew outrage last weekend (Dec 10) when he openly attacked Meghan Markle in The Sun newspaper saying she should be paraded naked.
He minced no words in saying that Prince Harry was being “controlled” by Markle and he was “dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while crowds chant ‘Shame!’ And throw lumps of excrement at her.”
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Clarkson said that he hated Markle more than convicted serial killer Rose West and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. “I hate her on a cellular level. Everyone who’s my age thinks the same way. But what makes me despair is that younger people, especially girls, think she’s pretty cool. They think she was a prisoner of Buckingham Palace, forced to talk about nothing but embroidery and kittens.”
The column sparked outrage unsurprisingly and was mainly fueled by Netflix’s recent docuseries Harry & Meghan.
Clarkson’s daughter, podcast host Emily Clarkson was quick to retort that under no circumstances did she support or agree with her father in the least.
“I want to make it very clear that I stand against everything my dad wrote about Meghan Markle. My views are and have always been clear when it comes to misogyny, bullying and the treatment of women by the media.”
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Sturgeon did have a comeback in response to Clarkson spewing hatred. According to Hollywood Reporter she told BBC Scotland on Dec 19 that the “overwhelming emotion I have for men like Jeremy Clarkson is pity,” and that she could not “imagine what it must be like to be so consumed and distorted by hate of other people, and in his case it appears women in particular, that you end up writing that toxic, vile abuse.”
In the same vein, Clarkson on Dec 19 also issued a half baked apology on Twitter saying that he was “horrified” to have “caused so much hurt” with a “clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones” that had “gone down badly with a great many people.”
His exact post on Twitter reads as follows:
“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.”