Jeremy Clarkson says he is 'horrified' over Meghan column
He better be sorry if he wants to appear on UK TV again. Of course anonymous internet trolls can away with worse.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64029690
More than 12,000 complaints have been made to the press regulator after Clarkson wrote on Friday that he "hated [Meghan] on a cellular level".
In a tweet on Monday, he said: "Oh dear. I've rather put my foot in it."
The column has now been removed from the Sun's website, at Clarkson's request, and replaced with his tweet.
In his message to followers, posted on Monday, described a reference he made to a scene in Game of Thrones as "clumsy".
"I'm horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future," he said.
On Sunday, Clarkson's own daughter Emily said: "I want to make it very clear that I stand against everything my dad wrote about Meghan Markle."
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Writing in his original column, Clarkson said: "At night, I'm unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she [Meghan] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her.
"Everyone who's my age thinks the same way," he added. "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."
His column followed the release of the last three episodes of Netflix's docuseries Harry & Meghan on Thursday.