Jeremy Clarkson will likely be dropped by Amazon, it has been reported, as he revealed he had emailed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to apologise for his “disgraceful” column, which is alleged to have “incited violence against Meghan”. The Telegraph has the story.
The former Top Gear host wrote in the Sun last month that he had dreamed of the Duchess being paraded through British towns naked while crowds hurl excrement and chant “shame”.
He claimed that “everyone who’s my age thinks the same way”.
In a lengthy post published on his Instagram page, Clarkson suggested that he was apologising because he had been asked to and admitted that both ITV and Amazon were “incandescent”.
But he insisted he was sorry “all the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head”.
He said he had emailed the Sussexes to apologise on Christmas Day but at the same time, told the couple he was “baffled” by their Netflix series.
Meanwhile, industry sources revealed that Amazon Prime Video, which broadcasts The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm, would likely be parting ways with the presenter and would not be working on any further seasons beyond those already commissioned.
It would mean that Clarkson would likely not appear in any new shows on Prime Video beyond 2024, according to Variety.
His column was eventually removed from the Sun’s website – at Clarkson’s request – after 17,500 complaints made it the most complained-about article in the press regulator’s history.
The row escalated again last week, when Prince Harry told ITV in an interview that the “cruel” article incited violence against women and said the monarchy’s silence on the matter was “deafening”.
Clarkson noted on Instagram that apologies never work. Yet he grovelled before Duchess Difficult anyway. He wrote:
One of the strange things I’ve noticed in recent times is that whenever an MP or a well-known person is asked to apologise for something, no matter how heartfelt or profound that apology may be, it’s never enough for the people who called for it in the first place.
So I’m going to try and buck the trend this morning with an apology for the things I said in a Sun column recently about Meghan Markle. I really am sorry. All the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head. This is me putting my hands up. It’s a mea culpa with bells on.
Usually, I read what I’ve written to someone else before filing, but I was home alone on that fateful day, and in a hurry. So when I’d finished, I just pressed Send. And then, when the column appeared the next day, the landmine exploded.
Clarkson claims he had inadvertently omitted to mention it was a Game of Thrones reference.
We’ve all been there, I guess. In that precise moment when we suddenly realise we’ve completely messed up. You are sweaty and cold at the same time. And your head pounds. And you feel sick. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Had I really said that? It was horrible.
I knew what had happened straight away. I’d been thinking of a scene in Games Of Thrones, but I’d forgotten to mention this. So it looked like I was actually calling for revolting violence to rain down on Meghan’s head.
I was very angry with myself because in all those controversial days on Top Gear, when I was accused of all sorts of things, it was very rarely sexism.
I was mortified and so was everyone else. My phone went mad. Very close friends were furious. Even my own daughter took to Instagram to denounce me.
He expresses worry that he won’t be able to write interesting columns anymore now that he must remain “vigilant” against offending the professionally offended.
So can I move on now? Not sure. It’s hard to be interesting and vigilant at the same time. You never hear peals of laughter coming from a health and safety seminar. But I promise you this, I will try.
Never apologise to the woke, Jeremy. It has only ever made things worse.
Let’s hope Amazon doesn’t drop him, and bring to an end the The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm. You’d think the company would realise that if it doesn’t stand by its hugely popular talent, it doesn’t deserve them. But the ‘woke mind virus’ makes people do some very self-destructive things.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Sussexes have rejected Clarkson’s apology, saying he has a “long-standing pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny”. MailOnline has more.
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Here’s a picture of life in India – what a lovely Government they have there, eh?
Here’s another picture from India:
You appear to be confusing the trolls who insist bacteria & viruses don’t exist with the evidence led types who praise Uttar Pradesh for its appropriate use of Ivermectin.
Shilling and old-school patronising racism in one post. Nice.
This is beautifully written, though deeply sad. The exact same darkness is creeping in all over the world. Strange, isn’t it? I appreciate the comparison with communism because I have wondered how this compares with living under tyrannies of old. This one is difficult because it has crept into the hearts and minds of almost the whole population. God have mercy on us all. I hope for you that you can find hope this Christmas in the Christ child, who conquered evil 2000 years ago and will ultimately vanquish it forever. Merry Christmas to you.
And to you.
Let evil into your heart and you are courting damnation. Mistake the evil in your heart for good, and you are damned.
Merry Christmas to all those who have renounced evil.
In one part of Spain they are using the likes of Superman, Batman, Wonder woman to encourage children to take a jab or two.
There is no room to record booster jabs.
I wonder if permission under copy write was agreed too.
Vile
For years I have been telling people that the regime ruling over Romania is communist at its core, but in different clothes. Ceausescu wasn’t overthrown because the people in charge of the Revolution wanted change. They just wanted their turn. And Ceausescu wasn’t shot by firing squad because of his crimes. He was shot so as not to expose the plans of the new regime.
And when it comes to food rations… well, here’s the thing. As bad as communism was with their food queues… at least you had food queues. It is unbelievable to say in this day and age, but I think Romanians had a better life under communism than they have today. Back then, they’d find you a home if you didn’t have one. Sure, it would be small, cramped, and you’d have to share. And you couldn’t own a large home by yourself, the government would send in tenants to live with you. But at least you had a home. These days the streets are filled with people freezing to death and starving. People living in all sorts of hovels, trying to stay warm, and either suffocating to death over night from improvised fireplaces, or setting their homes on fire. Bucharest is suffering from widespread heating outages. Elderly people can barely basic food with their pension, let alone medicine.
Why? In the name of globalism, of course. Klaus Iohannis is a well known globalist lackey. He once said of the country he is in charge of that “Romania is a failed state”. Before he won the presidential elections in 2014 in a 2020 US-style election he was mayor of Sibiu, where he used to be in the business of trafficking children to Western Europe and the US. These days there is nothing the EU says that Klaus Iohannis doesn’t embrace fully. Vaccinate everyone? Of course! Which is why Romania, a country with maybe 15m people eligible for vaccination, ordered 150m doses of vaccine.
Romania is an example of what globalism does to a country. Our country has everything you can possibly want in a country. Mountains, seaside, a bit of desert even, fields as far as the eye can see ready to grow food for half of Europe, Europe’s largest delta with untold natural potential, supplies of oil, gas, uranium, gold, vast touristic potential, a strong industrial potential, and yet, here we are, living in abject poverty. We are not allowed to finish out nuclear power plant, or to exploit our natural gas, because that would go against Germany’s dictate that everyone must switch to renewables. And as such we are forced to buy second hand wind turbines from Germany (isn’t it nice to have the power to force others to buy your garbage from you?) even though our country does not have favourable wind patterns for wind power. I wonder how long until we have to buy second hand tidal power plants from some other western country, even though the Black Sea has no discernible tide…? And our politicians don’t know what to do to sell our natural resources to foreign companies for peanuts…
Romania could be one of the richest countries in Europe. We have the resources. We have the people. Very smart people, very hard working. But we are not allowed to take ownership of our country. Yes, call out communism for the horrible hell that it was. But be cautious about what people would replace it with, because the alternative might be even worse.
“They are not opposed to vaccination; they just don’t get vaccinated.”
We are all Romanians now!