Jeremy Clarkson

British tv presenter Jeremy Clarkson stated Monday he’s “horrified to have caused so much hurt” with a scathing column about Prince Harry’s spouse, Meghan, that attracted a flood of complaints.

Clarkson, who hosts motoring present “The Grand Tour” on Amazon, wrote in tabloid newspaper The Sun that he hated Meghan Markle “on a cellular level” and dreamed of her being paraded bare by British cities “while the crowds chant ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.”

Media watchdog the Independent Press Standards Organization stated it had acquired greater than 12,000 complaints in regards to the column by Monday — near the overall variety of complaints it acquired in all of 2021.

The column was faraway from The Sun’s web site on Monday.

Clarkson, who made his title because the combative host of the BBC automobile present “Top Gear,” stated the general public shaming picture was “a clumsy reference” to a scene in “Game of Thrones.”

“Oh dear. I’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,” he tweeted on Monday. “I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.”

Clarkson’s column adopted the discharge of a six-part Netflix documentary about Harry and Meghan’s acrimonious cut up from the British royal household. The couple give up royal duties and moved to California in 2020, citing a scarcity of help from the palace and racist press therapy of Meghan, who’s biracial.

Clarkson’s column was condemned by public figures together with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who known as it “deeply misogynist and just downright awful and horrible.”

Clarkson’s daughter Emily Clarkson posted on Instagram that “I stand against everything that my dad wrote about Meghan Markle and I remain standing in support of those that are targeted with online hatred.”

Asked in regards to the article, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated that “for everyone in public life, language matters.” He added that “I absolutely don’t believe that Britain is a racist country.”