Jeremy Clarkson

British tv presenter Jeremy Clarkson mentioned Monday he’s “horrified to have brought on a lot damage” with a scathing column about Prince Harry’s spouse, Meghan, that attracted a flood of complaints.

Clarkson, who hosts motoring present “The Grand Tour” on Amazon, wrote in tabloid newspaper The Solar that he hated Meghan Markle “on a mobile stage” and dreamed of her being paraded bare via British cities “whereas the crowds chant ‘Disgrace!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.”

Media watchdog the Unbiased Press Requirements Group mentioned it had acquired greater than 12,000 complaints in regards to the column by Monday — near the whole variety of complaints it acquired in all of 2021.

The column was faraway from The Solar’s web site on Monday.

Clarkson, who made his identify because the combative host of the BBC automobile present “High Gear,” mentioned the general public shaming picture was “a slipshod reference” to a scene in “Recreation of Thrones.”

“Oh expensive. I’ve moderately put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a slipshod reference to a scene in Recreation of Thrones and this has gone down badly with an incredible many individuals,” he tweeted on Monday. “I am horrified to have brought on a lot damage and I shall be extra cautious in future.”

Clarkson’s column adopted the discharge of a six-part Netflix documentary about Harry and Meghan’s acrimonious cut up from the British royal household. The couple stop royal duties and moved to California in 2020, citing an absence of help from the palace and racist press remedy of Meghan, who’s biracial.

Clarkson’s column was condemned by public figures together with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who known as it “deeply misogynist and simply downright terrible and horrible.”

Clarkson’s daughter Emily Clarkson posted on Instagram that “I stand towards every part that my dad wrote about Meghan Markle and I stay standing in help of these which might be focused with on-line hatred.”

Requested in regards to the article, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak mentioned that “for everybody in public life, language issues.” He added that “I completely do not consider that Britain is a racist nation.”