Lorraine Kelly has stood with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in their refusal to accept Jeremy Clarkson’s apologies for his controversial essay about the Duchess of Sussex.
Clarkson stated he despised Meghan “on a cellular level” and wished to see her paraded naked down the street with faeces thrown at her in the most-complained-about story ever.
He then clarified that he made a “clumsy” reference to Game of Thrones, while Prince Harry slammed the piece as “horrific, terrible, and cruel” in an ITV interview.
The former Top Gear host broke his social media quiet on Monday, saying he apologised directly to Meghan and Harry in an email delivered on Christmas Day, but the pair did not accept the apology.
His message, they claimed, did not address “his long-standing practise of authoring pieces that disseminate hate language, dangerous conspiracy theories, and misogyny.”
Lorraine, a chat show personality, has now weighed in on the debate, pledging her support for the former senior royals.
On Tuesday’s Lorraine, the host told Ross King that Meghan and Harry are simply “not having it – and who can blame them?”
She went on: ‘I don’t blame them. He wrote it, but then it got published which seems utterly bizarre to me.’
Lorraine added that Jeremy appears to be ‘facing the consequences’ for the widely-condemned article, as Amazon called off an event to promote the upcoming series of Clarkson’s Farm last minute.
It has also been stated that the actor has parted ways with Amazon Prime Video.
Variety reports that the streaming service will not collaborate with the TV personality beyond the seasons of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm that have already been commissioned.
This means that the Top Gear star will not appear in any new Prime Video programmes after 2024.
In response to Jeremy’s announcement that he had apologised to the pair, Harry and Meghan released a public statement in which they first claimed he had written just to Harry, not the former Suits star.
They wrote: ‘While a new public apology has been issued today by Mr Clarkson, what remains to be addressed is his long-standing pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories, and misogyny.
‘Unless each of his other pieces were also written “in a hurry”, as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate.’
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