Victoria Newton, the editor of The Sun, received a letter from UK lawmakers requesting an apology and taking legal action against Jeremy Clarkson for writing in a column that he dreamt of the day Meghan Markle was paraded around the streets naked.

In response to the Netflix documentary about Prince Harry and Meghan, Clarkson’s statement was printed in a column on Friday. Clarkson wrote that the hate he had for Meghan Markle was “on a cellular level”. He also wrote in the tabloid newspaper The Sun that he was “dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.”

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Clarkson is most known for the motoring programmes Top Gear and The Grand Tour. He currently contributes weekly columns to The Sun and The Sunday Times. He was fired from the BBC programme Top Gear after 23 years as a host and went on to host Who Wants to be a Millionaire on ITV.

However, the public has frequently reacted negatively to Clarkson’s opinionated writing and presenting manner, with criticism from the media, lawmakers, and the public. Here are some of his controversies:

A favourer of individual liberty and opposed to governmental control, Clarkson has said that the government should “construct park benches and that is it They should leave us alone.”

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Alongside the then-editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, Clarkson attended the 2004 British Press Awards. According to witnesses, when Morgan arrived at the event, Clarkson approached her and told her, “Now that you’re in my world of telly, I can tell you you’re cr*p.”

They are both well-known for their petty online arguments and their public animosity has gone on for years.

When reviewing a German BMW Mini in a 2005 episode of Top Gear, Clarkson made a number of Nazi allusions. He then raised his arm in a Hitler-style salute while making fun of the invasion that started World War II. In his remarks, he predicted that German automobiles would have a GPS “that only goes to Poland.”

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Jeremy Clarkson stirred up a dispute in a 2008 episode while operating a truck and conversing with the other Top Gear hosts, saying: “What matters to lorry drivers? Murdering prostitutes? Fuel economy?”

In an open interview with Top Gear Magazine, Clarkson criticised TV executives for reportedly obsessed on casting “black Muslim lesbians” in order to balance out the white heterosexual men. He remarked, “The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blond-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works.”

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When asked to choose between two automobiles in a Top Gear episode from 2014, Clarkson used the nursery rhyme “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe” to assist himself in making a decision. In footage released by The Mirror, while reading the nursery rhyme, Clarkson may be seen using the N-word.

Most recently, Clarkson provoked uproar for his divisive rant against Meghan Markle in his article that appeared in The Sun. After the piece was published, a plethora of famous people and UK lawmakers spoke out against his disrespectful and hateful statements.