Amazon to part ways with Jeremy Clarkson following Meghan Markle column: report

“The Grand Tour” may be wrapping up on Amazon Prime Video, after presenter Jeremy Clarkson penned an incendiary column about Meghan Markle for the Sun last month.

Amazon Prime Video is clearly “deeply unhappy” with the 62-year-old, with sources telling Variety that Amazon’s streaming service will part ways with Clarkson following the already-commissioned seasons of the motoring series “The Grand Tour” and the docuseries “Clarkson’s Farm.”

As a result, “Clarkson’s Farm” will reportedly end with Season 3, and “The Grand Tour” will end after four more special episodes, the last of which will likely hit Prime Video in late 2024 or early 2025.

In his now-infamous column for The Sun in December, Clarkson wrote that he hated Markle “on a cellular level.”

“At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and 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,” he added.

The column, which The Sun later took offline, drew nearly 21,000 complaints, a record for the Independent Press Standards Organization. Clarkson tweeted an apology on December 19, writing that he made “a clumsy reference to a scene in ‘Game of Thrones’” in the column but was “horrified to have caused so much hurt.”

On Monday, Clarkson posted a lengthier apology on Instagram. “I really am sorry,” he wrote. “All the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head.”

He said he couldn’t believe what he had written when he re-read his column. “I’m just not sexist and I abhor violence against women,” he said. “And yet I seemed to be advocating just that.”

Clarkson also told Instagram followers he had emailed Markle and Prince Harry on Christmas morning to apologize. “I said I was baffled by what they had been saying on TV but that the language I’d used in my column was disgraceful and that I was profoundly sorry,” he wrote.

In an ITV interview, Harry said that the former “Top Gear” host’s column was “horrific, hurtful and cruel, towards my wife” and that it “also encourages other people around the U.K. and around the world, particularly men, to go and think that it’s acceptable to treat women that way.”