Prince Harry appeared in his first promo interviews for his upcoming memoir, Spare, and made a string of allegations about his life in the royal family - while also taking aim at his older brother, sister-in-law and stepmother.
20.12.2022 - 13:01 / deadline.com
Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun and British pubcaster ITV are facing pressure from dozens of UK MPs over the Jeremy Clarkson row sparked by the former Top Gear host using “violent, misogynistic language” against Meghan Markle. Letters can be seen below in full.
Led by Women and Equalities Committee Chair Caroline Noakes, around 50 MPs have this morning put their names to a letter to The Sun editor Victoria Newton to “condemn in the strongest possible terms the violent, misogynistic language used against The Duchess of Sussex,” while calling for “definitive action” to be taken against Clarkson and work to be done to prevent the situation happening again.
The Sun has already retracted the column from Friday 16 December and Clarkson, who also hosts Clarkson’s Farm for Prime Video, apologised yesterday, stating he was “horrified to have caused so much hurt.”
Meanwhile, Scottish MP John Nicolson has written directly to ITV CEO Carolyn McCall, urging her to take Clarkson off air, respond to Clarkson’s behavior and branding his apology a “mocking tweet.”
Clarkson is the host of ITV’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, a primetime gameshow format that draws millions of viewers each week and just wrapped its 38th season.
Nicolson highlighted that British press regulator IPSO has already had 6,000 complaints about the article, which is almost half the entire total of complaints for 2021. He pointed to ITV’s Statement of Programme Policy and Social Purpose Strategy, which has tenets including championing mental health and “fostering creativity by embracing diversity and inclusion.”
“I do not believe that Mr Clarkson should appear on our television screens again,” wrote Nicolson. “It would be especially inappropriate for him to be used as
Prince Harry appeared in his first promo interviews for his upcoming memoir, Spare, and made a string of allegations about his life in the royal family - while also taking aim at his older brother, sister-in-law and stepmother.
Prince Harry had a lot to say!
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