Jeremy Clarkson calls Meghan Markle ‘silly little
cable TV actress’ in defence of Piers Morgan
The Grand Tour host accused Markle of ‘simpering
victimhood’
Ellie
Harrison
5 hours ago
Jeremy
Clarkson has weighed in on the debate around Meghan Markle’s interview with
Oprah Winfrey and Piers Morgan’s subsequent departure from Good Morning
Britain.
Following
the interview, Morgan suggested that he thought Markle was lying about
experiencing suicidal thoughts during her time as a senior royal. After being
challenged by his GMB co-star Alex Beresford and storming off set, Morgan then
quit the ITV show.
His
comments prompted a record number of complaints to broadcast watchdog Ofcom
(more than 57,000).
In her
interview with Winfrey, Markle had also claimed that a member of the royal
family relayed concerns regarding “how dark” the skin of their son Archie would
be when he was born.
Writing in
his column forThe Sun, Clarkson said Markle is “much revered by the young and
the stupid who believe that her brand of simpering victimhood will one day
bring down the monarchy, but it won’t”.
He argued
that given everything the British monarchy has been through – “beheadings,
affairs, abdications” – he is “fairly sure it’ll be able to weather the banal
musings of a silly little cable TV actress”.
He added:
“Trust me on this one. Markle’s toast, and within five years, I suspect she’ll
be posing for photographs, on her own outside the Taj Mahal or sitting on the
back of a playboy’s yacht in the Med, and poor old Piers will realise that he
lost his job over absolutely nothing at all.”
Clarkson’s
support of Morgan is unusual. The pair have not always been friendly, having
had an infamous punch-up at the 2004 British Press Awards.
Reports at
the time claimed an inebriated Clarkson “ambled over to The Mirror’s table […]
and attacked, swinging a right hook at Morgan”.
“It was
actually three punches,” Morgan later said. “He permanently scarred me above my
temple because he had a ring on, but the good news was he broke his little
finger hitting my head because I’m that hard.”
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