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Jeremy Clarkson to stay on as host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ‘at the moment’ after ‘awful’ comments, ITV says | UK News


Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, were “terrible” but he’s still going on as host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? “at this point,” a senior ITV figure said.

Kevin Lygo made the comment after Clarkson’s column on The Sun became The Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO) gets the most complaints about the article.

Speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in London on Tuesday, Mr. Lygo, chief executive of ITV Studios, said: “I would say what he writes in a newspaper… We don’t control control what he says.

“We hired him as the brilliant announcer of the most popular quiz on television, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

“So it’s not quite in our garage but I don’t know what he was thinking when he wrote that. It was horrible.”

When asked if ITV would keep Clarkson as the host of the quiz show, a position he inherited from Chris Tarrant in 2018, Mr. Lygo said: “Yes, we are now.”

Asked if Clarkson represented ITV’s values, Mr. Lygo replied: “No, of course not in that case.”

It comes after the regulator said the work had been removed from The Sun’s website at clarsonreceived more than 20,800 complaints as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

This has surpassed the total number of complaints received by the media regulator in 2021, which was 14,355.

Meanwhile, more than 60 MPs wrote to the editor of The Sun condemning the column “in the strongest terms”.

The letter was issued by Conservative MP Caroline Nokes asking the publication to take action against Clarkson.

Jeremy Clarkson's daughter speaks out against Meghan Markle.  Photo: Instagram
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Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter has spoken out against his posts about Meghan online. Photo: Instagram

It said the former Top Gear host’s “obnoxious” article about the Duchess of Sussex had contributed to an “unacceptable atmosphere of hatred and violence”.

His column, published on Sunday, said he was “dreaming of the day she paraded naked through the streets of every town in England while the crowd chanted, ‘What a shame!’ and threw faeces at her.”

The comment sparked a backlash when Clarkson’s daughter Emily, like many others, spoke out against him.

Clarkson responded with a statement in which he said he would be more careful going forward.

However, this has been criticized for not including an apology.

“Oh man. I’d rather step foot in there. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I awkwardly mentioned a scene from Game of Thrones and it made a lot of people feel bad. I horror has caused so much pain and I will be more careful in the future,” he wrote on Twitter.

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‘Enough is enough’

The letter, written by MPs to The Sun editor Victoria Newton, reads: “We are appalled by Jeremy Clarkson’s recent article in your publication. As an MP of all persuasion, We condemn in the strongest possible terms the hateful language of violence against the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle.

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“This language has no place in our country and it is unacceptable for it to be published in a mainstream newspaper. Ms. Markle has faced numerous credible threats to her life. requires the intervention of the Metropolitan Police.

“Hate articles like Clarkson’s do not exist in a vacuum and contribute directly to this climate of unacceptable hatred and violence.”

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