Duchess Meghan
Guest post complaint record about her
Jeremy Clarkson finds highly questionable words about Duchess Meghan.
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“Top Gear” presenter Jeremy Clarkson likes to provoke. With a guest post about Duchess Meghan, however, he has now completely overdone it.
It cannot be denied that at least since the latest Netflix reveal documentary “Harry & Meghan” the ghosts of the Sussexes have been separating. With a highly questionable guest article written by the famous “Top Gear” presenter Jeremy Clarkson (62) for the British tabloid “The Sun”, the limit of good taste has now been exceeded by miles for many readers. As reported, among other things, by “The Guardian”.the British Press Council received well over 17,000 complaints about the article published last week about the Duchess.
This is a record: never before have so many complaints been received about a single post. Rather, only around 14,000 complaints were made for the entire year 2021. The unprecedented feedback has already followed: Clarkson’s text can no longer be read online. This was deleted at his request, as is now stated in an updated version on the homepage. Instead, a screenshot of a tweet from Clarkson was uploaded therein which he apologizes for his choice of words.
In it he writes: “Oh dear. […] In a post I wrote about Meghan, I made an awkward comparison to a scene from ‘Game of Thrones’ and it went down badly with a whole lot of people. I’m shocked that I’ve caused so much pain and I’ll be more careful in the future.” Striking in his “apology”: he doesn’t say a single word of remorse directly to Duchess Meghan (41).
He fuels “hatred and violence”
Even Clarkson’s daughter publicly distanced herself from her father immediately after the article was published and criticized his choice of words. He had in it as photographed print versions of the text show, expressed his deep-seated hatred for Prince Harry’s (38) wife. “Gritting his teeth,” he says, “waits for the day when she has to walk naked through every city in Britain while people shout ‘Shame!’ shout and throw excrement at them.” This very humiliation was inflicted on a female character in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones that Clarkson addressed.
However, simply removing the article and Clarkson’s half-baked apology is apparently not enough for many people. According to “The Guardian”, numerous members of the British Parliament have since called for far-reaching consequences for the moderator. In her eyes, this contributed to an “unacceptable climate of hatred and violence” in the contribution.