Viral Meghan Markle Critic Once Called Americans 'Very Fat, Very Stupid'

Jeremy Clarkson, the British media personality who sparked ire for stating that he dreamed of seeing "lumps of excrement thrown" at Meghan Markle, has a long history of criticizing Americans.

In his column for the U.K. newspaper The Sun, which was published on Friday, The Grand Tour presenter Clarkson said that he felt "sorry" for Prince Harry, branding him a "glove puppet" who has no control over his own actions.

"Meghan, though, is a different story. I hate her," Clarkson said in reaction to the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan. "Not like I hate [Scottish First Minister] Nicola Sturgeon or [convicted serial killer] Rose West. I hate her on a cellular level."

Clarkson then partially referenced a famous scene from the hit series Game of Thrones as he shared the fate he dreamed that Meghan should meet.

"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 wrote.

After widespread backlash, Clarkson addressed his comments on Monday, writing on Twitter: "Oh dear. I've rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I'm horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future."

However, this is hardly a one-off for former Top Gear host Clarkson—who in the past has been accused of racial and cultural insensitivity—as he has also been highly critical of Americans, once calling them "very fat" and "very stupid."

In a video that was posted on YouTube back in 2011 and appeared to have been taken from Top Gear, Clarkson was seen filling up his car at a gas station as he posted out his surroundings in an unspecified American location.

"If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like," Clarkson said. "You've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude. It's not a holiday program, it's the truth."

In another clip, shared by Clarkson on his own YouTube channel, the media personality made an appearance on The Michael McIntyre Chat Show in the U.K., where he called Americans "stupid" and mocked the car-related terms people use.

"They call a liquid gas," added Clarkson, before saying that it was "mental."

During an appearance on the BBC's The Graham Norton Show back in 2014, Clarkson appeared alongside British comedian Jo Brand, who said at the time that she had never been to the U.S. before and had no interest in going.

When Brand said that there are other places in the world that she would rather visit than the U.S., fellow guest Sharon Osbourne—who has spent more than two decades in California—asked for examples.

"All of them," Clarkson responded. "Every single country in the world is better than America. I've just come back from Burma and Ukraine, both of which are 1 billion times better than the United States."

So plentiful are Clarkson's swipes at the U.S. that there are even compilation videos on YouTube dedicated solely to his mocking of America and its residents.