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ITV Content Boss Kevin Lygo Brands Jeremy Clarkson Column “Awful” But Says He Will Remain Host Of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’

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ITV Content Boss Kevin Lygo has become the first senior ITV exec to respond to Jeremy Clarkson’s controversial Meghan Markle column, branding the article “awful” but stating he will keep his job as host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.

Clarkson’s article “did not represent our values,” Lygo told journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch yesterday afternoon, adding: “It was awful and he has acknowledged that.

I don’t know what he was thinking.” Friday’s Sun column, which said Markle should be “made to parade naked  through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds throw lumps of excrement at her,” is UK press regulator IPSO’s most complained about article of all time with more than 20,000, and Rupert Murdoch’s paper has since retracted the piece while Clarkson said he was “horrified to have caused so much hurt.” Meanwhile, Scottish MP John Nicolson wrote to ITV CEO Carolyn McCall urging her to ask Clarkson, who has presented Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

for five years, to stand down. McCall is yet to respond but Lygo said Clarkson will continue presenting the format. “What [Clarkson] writes in a newspaper column is really more for [the press] to talk about than us,” said Lygo. “We have no control over what he says and hire him as a consummate broadcaster of the most famous quiz on TV.” One ITV presenter who the pubcaster’s execs may be having a word with is Gary Neville, the ITV World Cup football pundit who was criticized for a World Cup final rant in which he compared workers’ rights in Qatar – where thousands of migrants are reported to have died building stadiums – to the “demonization” of public sector workers in the UK.

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