The Grand Tour star Richard Hammond has clarified comments he made, saying he doesn’t understand why gay people “feel the need” to come out publicly. The 47-year-old’s remarks to the Sunday Times sparked backlash on social media and some Twitter users said his remarks were homophobic. (more…)
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Richard Hammond: I Am Not Anti-Gay
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Audience applauds Richard Hammond’s “casual homophobia” on Amazon’s Grand Tour
An Amazon Prime Grand Tour live studio audience applauded a comment made by Richard Hammond which insinuated that eating ice cream was gay.
CREDIT: Amazon Prime Responding to a comment made by Jeremy Clarkson on the Amazon Prime show, Grand Tour, about being unable to eat an ice cream inside of a car’s interior, co-presenter, Richard Hammond replied,
“It’s all right, I don’t eat ice cream. It’s something to do with being straight.”
The studio audience after a few laughs erupted into applause. Questioning the applause Jeremy Clarkson, who looks slightly stunned by the comments asks the audience,
“Why are you applauding him? What do you mean? You’re saying all children are homosexual?”
Richard Hammond replies,
“What? What? Ice cream is a bit – you know… There’s nothing wrong with it, but a grown man eating an ice cream – it’s that way, rather than that way.”
The conversation then dives into a not so subtle joke about 69ing and a chocolate flake.
Many users of Twitter blasted the presenter calling him out on what they called his “casual homophobia” and demanded that he stop normalising homophobia. Some suggested the clip was aired to boost an underperforming show.
https://twitter.com/MagicMolko/status/813675830786326528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The comments were made on the sixth episode of the Amazon Prime show, which was called “Happy Finnish Christmas”. It was released on 23 December.
THEGAYUK reached out to Amazon Prime for comment.
In 2015 Jeremy Clarkson caused offence when he tweeted a picture about fudge packing. Jeremy uploaded a picture of himself and Richard Hammond standing outside a fudge factory with the caption “We have got jobs at last. Here. As packers.”
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Jeremy Clarkson: James May and Richard Hammond are married!
Jeremy Clarkson has joked that his co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond are married and that he was a guest at their wedding party and even joined them on their honeymoon.
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Bored Jeremy Clarkson tells ultimate fib after getting bored at press junkets.
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He told one journalist that his co-hosts were married.
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He said that he joined them on their honeymoon.
Okay, just so you know James May and Richard Hammond, the co-host of Amazon’s Grand Tour along with Jeremy Clarkson aren’t married, but that’s what Jeremy has claimed after he got bored with endless questions from journalists about the brand new flagship show for Amazon.
According to the Daily Star, to try and combat the tedium of press junkets Jeremy started to embellish his answers and even told on New York journo a whopping fib.
At one press conference in New York he alleges he was asked why he was in NY… Always the joker, Jeremy told him:
“I was a guest at James and Richard’s honeymoon.
According to Jeremy the journalist duly wrote that down as fact in his notebook.
Of course, in real life James May is in a relationship with Sarah Frater who he’s been dating since 2000 and Richard Hammond has been married to Amanda Etheridge since 2002. Neither of them identify as gay or bisexual.
ON THE PROMOTIONAL TRAIL
Complaining about his promotional obligations for the Amazon show Jeremy revealed,
“I’ve spent the past month on the promotional trail.
“It’s a brutal cocktail of complicated hotel rooms, shouty airport security staff and indigestion from gobbled dinners, all topped off with a never-ending array of mostly idiotic interviews.”
Well Jez, those are the breaks…
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