Jeremy Clarkson to remain as host of ITV's WWTBAM

By Neil Wilkes, Editor-in-chief | 22 December 2022

ITV content chief Kevin Lygo confirms that Jeremy Clarkson will remain as host of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? despite the furore surrounding his comments about Meghan Markle.

ITV content chief Kevin Lygo has confirmed that the broadcaster has no plans to part ways with Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? host Jeremy Clarkson.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation received more than 20,000 complaints about Clarkson last week after he wrote a newspaper column criticising Meghan Markle, saying that he "hated" her "on a cellular level".

Angry viewers have called on ITV to drop him as host of Millionaire due to his column, which he has since apologised for, but Lygo told journalists that he will stay in the role "at the moment".

"We have no control over what he says and hire him as a consummate broadcaster of the most famous quiz on TV," he said.

"It's not quite in our wheelhouse, but I don't know what he was thinking when he wrote that – it was awful."

Clarkson - former presenter of the BBC's Top Gear - took over as host of the ITV quiz show in 2018.

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