Jeremy Clarkson has courted controversy yet again by dismissing a Labour MP’s criticisms of Top Gear with the phrase: “We don’t make it for people who wear pink ties.”
Clarkson was responding to Labour’s transport spokesman Michael Dugher, who said the show didn’t represent motorists, and also described the Top Gear host as “basically an idiot”.
Dugher did not seem overly bothered by Clarkson’s ham-fisted response.
But we’re worried about how much Clarkson may be limiting his audience if he doesn’t think people who wear pink ties can like Top Gear.
Here are some celebrities that presumably won’t be watching his show…
1. James Bond
2. The Fonz
3. Eddie Jordan
4. Iron Man
5. Sir Ben Kingsley
6. P Diddy
7. James Haskell
8. Donald Trump
9. John Terry
10. Jeremy Clarkson’s solicitor
11. The fox from Foxy Bingo
Even Clarkson himself is no stranger to a pink tie.
We wonder if he wants to reassess…
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