After reports that he had been fired from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Jeremy Clarkson has set the record straight.
It was recently reported that the host’s stint on the ITV show has come to an end following the uproar caused by his caustic letter about Meghan Markle earlier this year.
This contradicted a suggestion that the series will continue with Clarkson as presenter, with ITV president Carolyn McCall claiming that Clarkson’s comments regarding the Duchess of Sussex, for which he apologised, were ‘in no way approved’ by the company.
In a fresh Twitter tweet, the 62-year-old promised his followers that he will continue in his work on WWTBAM?
‘So many kind messages about today’s reports. But relax. Lisa and I have not split up and I have not been sacked as host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,’ he wrote.
Clarkson was also responding to the apparent rumour that he and his partner Lisa Hogan, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2017, had split up.
Clarkson has been the host of the gameshow since 2018, when he was cast in a revised edition of the show.
Chris Tarrant formerly presented WWTBAM? from 1998 and 2014.
McCall confirmed to Variety that Clarkson has been hired by ITV for the next season of the show.
She emphasised that no additional obligations had been made with the TV celebrity as of yet.
‘We have a contract. We’re contracted to this [season], so we will do that. And then we have no future commitments. And we haven’t made any statements about that,’ she said.
Hence, it might be that the forthcoming season of WWTBAM? is Clarkson’s last, but we’re yet to find out for sure.
The magazine asked McCall if ITV was considering continuing WWTBAM? in the future, to which she allegedly shrugged, and Sony declined to comment.
Clarkson’s career was jeopardised earlier this year when he penned a disgusting piece about the Duchess of Sussex in The Sun, which went on to become the most-complained-about-article-ever at the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso).
He stated in the column that he ‘hated’ Meghan on a ‘cellular level,’ and that he ‘dreamed’ of her being ‘paraded’ through the streets as ‘excrement’ was hurled at her.
He later apologised and stated that he issued an apology to Meghan and Prince Harry on Christmas Day, albeit it was later revealed that the apology was only given to the Duke of Sussex, according to a representative for the couple.
In his apology, Clarkson said of the backlash he received: ‘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.’
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire airs on ITV and is available to watch on ITVX.
Source My Celebrity Life.