The pressure is on.
An ITV boss has responded to calls for Jeremy Clarkson to be removed from his hosting role on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? following his "hateful" comments about Meghan Markle.
Last week, the former Top Gear presenter wrote in The Sun how he "hates" the royal "on a cellular level" and dreams about people throwing "excrement" at her as she walks naked in the streets – a somewhat throwaway reference to Game of Thrones, Clarkson has since insisted.
He said he dislikes the Duchess of Sussex more than First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and notorious serial killer Rose West.
The column received widespread condemnation from the public, celebrities, politicians and even Clarkson's own daughter.
This led to calls from some for Clarkson to be removed from his television roles for ITV and Amazon Prime. As of December 2022, Clarkson is the current host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on ITV.
Now, the broadcaster's media and entertainment boss Kevin Lygo has responded to the backlash. Although he said the column did not represent ITV's values and was "awful," Lygo said there were no plans "at the moment" to replace him as host of the game show.
Speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in London on Tuesday, Lygo said he had "no control" over what Mr Clarkson wrote in his newspaper columns, the BBC reports.
