british tabloid Sun said on Friday that it regretted the publication of an article by columnist Jeremy Clarkson violently attacking Meghan Markle and announcing the removal of the text from his archives.
In a column last week, after the second installment of the Netflix documentary series dedicated to the devastating departure from the British monarchy of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, accusing the press in particular of racism, Jeremy Clarkson expressed his disgust. by the Duchess of Sussex. .
Register of complaints with the UK regulator
“I hate her. (…) At night I can’t sleep and I just lie there, gritting my teeth and dreaming of the day she will be paraded naked through the streets of every city in the UK, while the crowds scream ‘ What a shame!’ and throw feces on him,” she wrote.
The article led to a record number of complaints (more than 20,000) to the British press regulator and numerous condemnations of public figures.
Sun removed the article from its website Monday, at the request of its author, who had invoked “a clumsy reference to Game of Thrones” on Twitter.
“A lot of people took it the wrong way. I’m horrified that I caused so much pain and I’ll be more careful in the future,” he wrote.
In one of Game of Thrones’ most defining sequences, a female character undergoes a “walk of shame,” in which she’s forced to wander the streets naked while people throw trash at her.
Item removed from website
“The opinions of the columnists are their own, but as editors we realize that with freedom of expression comes a responsibility,” the newspaper wrote on its website on Friday.
“We in SunWe regret the publication of this article and we sincerely regret it”, continues the tabloid, which explains that the text has been removed from its site and its archives.
This isn’t the first time Jeremy Clarkson has distinguished himself with outrageous or provocative comments. In 2015, he was banned from the BBC’s Top Gear car show after physically and verbally attacking a producer. Before that, he had already aroused many controversies and was accused of racist outings.
After the return of the BBC, he reformed the trio who will soon succeed Top Gear with his acolytes James May and Richard Hammond on Amazon Prime, or the 62-year-old presenter who also has a broadcast who has his adventures in so much farmer.
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