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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews<\/h3>\nSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter \n<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jeremy Clarkson will remain the host on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?<\/em> \u201cAt the moment\u201d, ITV boss Kevin Lygo has confirmed.<\/p>\nLygo criticised the 62-year-old presenter’s comments about Meghan Markle, describing his tirade as \u201cawful\u201d.<\/p>\n
In an op-ed published by The Sun <\/em>On Friday (16 December), Clarkson wrote that he dreamt of the day Markle would be made to parade naked through Britain while the crowd chanted \u201cshame\u201d and threw \u201cexcrement\u201d at her.<\/p>\nClarkson claimed that \u201ceveryone who’s my age thinks the same way\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Sun <\/em>has now removed Clarkson’s comment piece from its website. \u201cIn light of Jeremy Clarkson’s tweet he has asked us to take last week’s column down,\u201d the page now reads.<\/p>\nMore than 60 cross-party MPs have written to The Sun’s<\/em> editor to demand an apology and \u201caction taken\u201d against Clarkson. The SNP’s shadow culture minister also called for Clarkson to be banned from TV altogether.<\/p>\nIpso confirmed on Tuesday 20 December that it had received over 17,500 complaints about the presenter’s column, more than the total it received in 2021.<\/p>\n
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Emily Clarkson called out media’s ‘inhumane’ treatment of Markle days before her father’s op-ed<\/h3>\n\n
Days before Jeremy Clarkson’s op-ed was published on 16 December, his daughter Emily had condemned the media’s \u201cinhumane\u201d treatment of Markle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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On 14 December, alongside a screenshot of a publication blurb which read, \u201cHarry and Meghan release yet another Netflix trailer for their show waging war on the Palace ahead of new three episodes dropping TOMORROW\u201d, Emily wrote a lengthy caption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy steadfast defense of them has never been of the individuals I don’t know, rather of two people who have, objectively, been treated APPALLINGLY,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt’s bullying on a mass scale,\u201d Emily continued. \u201cI feel DEEP discomfort with our lack of humanity towards these two people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Following the publication of Clarkson’s column, she spoke out against her father, standing against \u201ceverything my father wrote\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/amp-img>\n\n
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‘I remain standing in support of those that are targeted with online hatred,’ said podcast host<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Writer Joyce Carol Oates says Clarkson should be taken by ‘his word’<\/h3>\n\n
Joyce Carol Oates, the writer who penned 2000 historical fiction novel blonde<\/em>about Marilyn Monroe, believe we should take Clarkson \u201cat his word\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u201cWhen an individual like Jeremy Clarkson admits publicly to a ‘cellular hatred’ of a Black woman,\u201d she wrote on Twitter, \u201cwe should take him at his word: racism is primitive, irrational, sub-human & sub-ethical emotional violence directed against someone perceived as ‘other’.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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James O’Brien says Clarkson’s ‘gotta go’ on new podcast episode<\/h3>\n\n
James O’Brien thinks Clarkson’s \u201cgotta go\u201d after his \u201cdisgusting\u201d op-ed against Markle. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Despite not normally buying into \u201cthat kind of response to off-air behavior having on-air consequences\u201d, the radio presenter said he believes \u201csociety demands standards\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Therefore, \u201cI don’t think they can keep him on the job\u201d, O’Brien said on Wednesday’s (21 December) episode of his \u201cThe Whole Show\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cPretty much everybody (except the weirdest people on the planet) agrees that it was absolutely disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Police have confirmed that Clarkson is not going to face investigation over the article, despite calls from some critics to probe it as hate speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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More than 60 MPs have written to The Sun <\/em>complaining about the article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The boss of ITV confirmed that Clarkson would not be removed from his post as presenter of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
He did, however, condemn Clarkson’s article in strong terms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Piers Morgan weighed in on the issue with what many might characterize as a predictable response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Going to re-share some of the main stories over the past day or so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Firstly, the news that Clarkson’s story had broken the record for the number of complaints lodged to Ipso, the independent press standards organisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/amp-img><\/figure>\nJeremy Clarkson’s Meghan article breaks Ipso complaints record<\/h3>\n Jeremy Clarkson’s column where he expressed hatred for the Duchess of Sussex has broken Ipso records as the most complained about article ever. The Independent Press Standards Organization received more than 17,500 complaints – more than the total amount they received in 2021. In his piece for The Sun, the former Top Gear presenter said he dreamed of the day Meghan would be paraded \u201cnaked\u201d through \u201cevery town in Britain\u201d while crowds threw \u201clumps of excrement at her.\u201d Mr Clarkson has since said he is “horrified” by the “hurt” caused, pledging he “shall be more careful in future.” Sign up for our newsletters. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A reminder of what exactly it was Nicolson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFollowing grotesque comments made about the First Minster and The Duchess of Sussex, I do not believe Jeremy Clarkson should be allowed back on our screens. I’ve written to the Chief Executive of ITV.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SNP politician John Nicolson has shared some of the abusive messages he’s received over the past day after calling for ITV to get rid of Clarkson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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He’s the only person to have reportedly not reported online abuse over the subject \u2013 Carol Vorderman said she received \u201ca lot of after criticising the ex-Top Gear <\/em>Shoo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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