MEDIA LOSER: Jeremy Clarkson
The famed host of Top Gun found himself in scalding water this week after making a shockingly ill-advised comment about Megan Markle in an op-ed for The Sun.
In the piece, a condemnation of the new Netflix documentary from Markle and her husband Prince Harry, Clarkson declared he hates the Duchess of Sussex “on a cellular level,” and “everyone who’s my age thinks the same way.”
He proceeded to offer a fantasy where he imagined Markle being publicly shamed like Cersei Lannister was shamed in Game of Thrones. “At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowd chants ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her,” Clarkson wrote. Those comments have been condemned by thousands who complained to the UK's standards organization. London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemned Clarkson’s comments as “dangerous and inexcusable.”
He even drew heat from his daughter, Emily Clarkson, who said “I want to make it very clear that I stand against everything my dad wrote about Meghan Markle.” Clarkson issued a statement acknowledging his Game of Thrones reference was “clumsy,” and he was “horrified to have caused so much hurt.”
He also asked The Sun to delete the entire column from its website, and the tabloid obliged. Rough day for this bloke. |