Piers Morgan supported Jeremy Clarkson’s apologies to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after he penned a horrible column about the Duchess of Sussex, stating that all columnists had had a “moment of lunacy.”
The 57-year-old used his TalkTV show Piers Morgan Uncensored to respond to the Clarkson Farm star’s lengthy statement, as well as Prince Harry’s rebuttal.
Jeremy, 62, took to social media on Monday to relive the moment he realised he had ‘totally messed up,’ and stated he had emailed Prince Harry and Meghan to apologise for his statements.
Jeremy stated in his lengthy message, ‘I truly apologise. From the balls of my feet to the hair follicles on my head. This is me raising my hands. It’s a formalised mea culpa.
‘Usually, I read what I’ve written to someone else before filing, but I was home alone on that fateful day, and in a hurry. So when I’d finished, I just pressed send. And then, when the column appeared the next day, the land mine exploded.’
Later in the apology, he clarified: ‘I knew what had happened straight away. I’d been thinking of a scene in Game of Thrones, but I’d forgotten to mention this. So it looked like I was actually calling for revolting violence to rain down on Meghan’s head.’
A spokesperson for Prince Harry has since issued their own statement, saying: ‘While a new public apology has been issued today by Mr Clarkson, what remains to be addressed is his long standing pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories, and misogyny.
‘Unless each of his other pieces were also written “in a hurry”, as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate.’
Piers has, naturally, now had his say, addressing his viewers: ‘What happens with these two if you do apologise to them? It’s quite interesting, isn’t it?
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‘One person who’s made a very grovelling apology today, publicly, is Jeremy Clarkson, whose now infamous column on Meghan sparked an avoidable and predictable backlash.’
Insisting that he did not agree with Jeremy’s comments, he added: ‘To be clear, the comments he said were completely inappropriate and wrong. He shouldn’t have said them. It was a dumb joke and I think that he now recognises, judging by his statement today, that it was a moment of madness.’
However, Piers defended Jeremy’s claim that he was ‘in a hurry’ when he ‘just pressed send’ after writing his column.
‘All columnists have had them, I’ve had them myself,’ he admitted. ‘But he issued a long mea culpa on his Instagram, a long one, expressing his deep, deep profound regret. But it wasn’t enough.’
He continued: ‘Harry’s spokesman immediately hit back, ‘It’s clear this is not an isolated incident shared in haste but rather a series of articles shared in hate.’ Again, the irony.
‘A series of articles shared in hate. Does that remind you of anything? Does that remind you of a book called Spare spewing hate at the Royal family? You can stick you apology, Harry, where the sun don’t shine,’ Piers finished.
Piers Morgan Uncensored airs weeknights at 8pm on TalkTV