The column penned by the hose of 'The Grand Tour' was condemned by public figures including Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who called it “deeply misogynist and just downright awful and horrible.”
Clarkson, who hosts motoring show “The Grand Tour” on Amazon, wrote in tabloid newspaper The Sun that he hated the former Meghan Markle “on a cellular level” and dreamed of her being paraded naked through British towns “while the crowds chant ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.”
The press regulator said it had received more than 6,000 complaints about the column – almost half as many as the total number of complaints it received last year. Clarkson, who made his name as the combative host of the BBC car show “Top Gear,” said the public shaming image was “a clumsy reference” to a scene in “Game of Thrones.”Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
“I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future,” he wrote on Twitter. Clarkson’s column followed the release of a six-part Netflix documentary about Harry and Meghan’s acrimonious split from the
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