Jeremy Clarkson issues damning verdict on Meghan Markle Netflix series amid widespread ridicule
Jeremy Clarkson has issued a brutal put down of Meghan Markle’s new Netflix series With Love, Meghan as the show continues to be panned by critics and fans alike.
The 64-year-old writer and presenter tip-toed around his latest critique of the Duchess and relied on a barley concealed backhanded comment to deliver his verdict.
“OBVIOUSLY I’m not going to comment on Meghan Markle’s new television show,” Clarkson began in his column for The Sun.
The 64-year-old’s caution follows a volcanic row over his 2022 piece for the same paper, where he wrote that the Duchess “ought to be paraded through the streets naked”.
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The former Top Gear presenter added that he hated Markle “on a cellular level” and fantasised about a mob hurling excrement at the Duchess while chanting “shame”.
Clarkson faced a torrent of complaints for his comments, for which he eventually apologised.
The 64-year-old said he was sorry to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head”.
Even with that baggage, Clarkson could not resist issuing a less than subtle barb at the new Netflix show.
“Save to say that I wish, as never before, that AA Gill was still alive,” he wrote.
Adrian Anthony Gill was an infamously divisive critic known for his acerbic style and withering reviews.
The late writer, who was himself subject to multiple complaints through the Press Complaints Commission, died in 2016 aged 62.
Clarkson also suggested The Sun’s current TV reviewer may share Gill’s hypothetical, but almost assuredly damming, verdict on Netflix’s With Love, Meghan.
Clarkson and backhanded put down was far from alone in deriding the new series, which has been thoroughly savaged by reviewers and regular viewers alike.
UK publications The Independent and The Guardian gave the show a dismal 1/5 stars.
On review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, the show was branded “rotten” after gaining a low 35 percent score.
The show also achieved a lower still 19 percent approval among site users.