Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has stated that he would not breach the “TV rule” that James Martin broke.
The Saturday Morning host, 51, was mired in a scandal earlier this week after being accused of harassing and threatening people while filming an ITV show.
He later apologised for ‘upsetting or causing offence,’ citing personal life pressures such as a shock cancer diagnosis, the death of his last surviving grandparent, and a home burglary as contributing to his’very emotional state’ when his home ‘flooded’ while filming due to a blocked drain.
‘I can only say I am human and following a build-up of personal life pressure, I admit I overreacted regarding the damage to my home,’ he said.
Martin acknowledged that ‘lessons had been learnt’ after an incident in 2018 surfaced in which the broadcaster allegedly ‘launched a foul-mouthed diatribe towards workers’ when a drain in his house became plugged.
A day after his apology, the expletive-laden diatribe in which he chastised workers for the event was ‘leaked,’ with the presenter shouting 42 times in a 10-minute outburst.
Clarkson has since spoken out about the matter, stating that he would never breach the same rule.
He wrote in his column in The Sun: ‘After reading about chef James Martin’s sweary rant at a TV crew who’d broken his kitchen, I rolled my eyes and thought: “Does this man know nothing about TV?”
‘Because as anyone who works in the industry knows, rule number one is: Never let a film crew in your house.’
The Clarkson’s Farm host went on to say he has worked ‘with the same guys for 20 or more years’, and though he admires their camera skills and ‘enjoys’ their company, he ‘would never let them in my house’.
He said: ‘I would never let them in my house because they’d drag their heavy boxes over the wooden floors, do a reverse-Ikea on all the furniture as they moved it to make way for their equipment and then, because all film crews live on a diet of chilli sauce, make the most godawful smell in the lavatory.’
On Friday, the incident in question was leaked with an audio clip obtained by The Sun, in which Martin scolded his team, telling them they should be ‘f***ing fried’ and punishing them by ordering they take their lunch breaks in the ‘f***ing rain.’
‘Show me and show my house more f**king respect – if not, you’re gone,’ he is heard saying after the drain damage.
He continued: ‘Senior members of our staff will get f**king fired because I‘m sick of it. I’m sick of being treated like a f**king piece of sh*t.’
On Thursday, Martin addressed the recording and said on his social media he felt compelled to make a statement about the incident after ‘details of a conversation which was secretly recorded in January 2018 are now five years later being made public by a former member of our production team.’
In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, he said: ‘I would like to publicly and sincerely apologise to the crew involved in this incident, as I did at the time.’
He described the end of 2017 as ‘one of the most fraught and difficult periods of my life’ because he had been dealing with his grandfather’s death and a home burglary.
‘I was then diagnosed with cancer on my face and I had to have surgery, which I couldn’t do until two days before Christmas when we had finished filming,’ he added.
‘Since then it has returned on several occasions and I have to have regular treatments.’
Source My Celebrity Life.
