{"id":14180,"date":"2024-01-11T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=14180"},"modified":"2024-01-11T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:12:07","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-horrified-to-have-caused-so-much-hurt-following-backlash-to-scathing-column-about-meghan-markle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=14180","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson &#8220;horrified to have caused so much hurt&#8221; following backlash to scathing column about Meghan Markle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mpu-plus-native-top\" data-ad=\"mpu-plus-native-top\" class=\"ad-mpu-plus-native-top ad-wrapper \" data-ad-unit='\"mpu-plus-native-top\"'>\n    <\/div>\n<p>British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson said Monday he is &#8220;horrified to have caused so much hurt&#8221; with a scathing column about Prince Harry&#8217;s wife,&nbsp;Meghan, that attracted a flood of complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson, who hosts motoring show &#8220;The Grand Tour&#8221; on Amazon, wrote in tabloid newspaper The Sun that he hated Meghan Markle &#8220;on a cellular level&#8221; and dreamed of her being paraded naked through British towns &#8220;while the crowds chant &#8216;Shame!&#8217; and throw lumps of excrement at her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Media watchdog the Independent Press Standards Organization said it had received more than 12,000 complaints about the column by Monday &mdash; close to the total number of complaints it received in all of 2021.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The column was removed from The Sun&#8217;s website on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson, who made his name as the combative host of the BBC car show &#8220;Top Gear,&#8221; said the public shaming image was &#8220;a clumsy reference&#8221; to a scene in &#8220;Game of Thrones.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div id=\"leader-plus-outstream-middle\" data-ad=\"leader-plus-outstream-middle\" class=\"ad-leader-plus-outstream-middle ad-wrapper \" data-ad-unit='\"leader-plus-outstream-middle\"'>\n    <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Oh dear. I&#8217;ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people,&#8221; he&nbsp;tweeted&nbsp;on Monday. &#8220;I&#8217;m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson&#8217;s column followed the release of a six-part Netflix documentary&nbsp;about Harry and Meghan&#8217;s acrimonious split from the British royal family. 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Clarkson, who hosts motoring show &#8220;The Grand Tour&#8221; on Amazon, wrote in tabloid newspaper The Sun that he hated Meghan Markle &#8220;on a cellular level&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=14180\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeremy Clarkson &#8220;horrified to have caused so much hurt&#8221; following backlash to scathing column about Meghan Markle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}