Jeremy Clarkson has further explained how he murmured a racist word mistakenly while recording Top Gear. The 54-year-old presenter said that the rhyme he was singing was “entirely innocent” and that he was trying to say “anything but the N-word”.
The Mirror posted the video in which Clarkson is alleged to use the word while reciting the old children’s nursery rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe”.
While speaking to The Sun, Clarkson said: “I accept that people will hear that on the unaired footage and be offended“.
Adding: “I wish to God that my attempts to cover up that word were better than they were. “I was simply mumbling – saying ‘ner ner’ or something similar, anything but the N-word.“
His fellow two Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May have backed Clarkson saying he is an “idiot” along with many of things, but not a racist.
The BBC have launched an investigation into the claims.
