Amazon's Grand Tour show causes complaints after Clarkson's comment about gipsies

Travellers have lodged a criticism with the tv watchdog after Jeremy Clarkson made an 'offensive' remark about gipsies not insuring their vehicles on the Grand Tour.

Throughout his time on High Gear Clarkson was recognized for making controversial statements which offended everybody from lorry drivers to Argentinians - and it might seem his newest present will probably be peppered with the identical kind of feedback.

Within the first episode of the hit Amazon Prime present the controversial presenter - who was sacked because the host of High Gear by the BBC in 2015 - stated he and co-presenters Richard Hammond and James Could are going to 'be like gipsies'.

Within the first episode of the hit Amazon Prime present the controversial presenter stated he and his co-presenters are going to 'be like gipsies solely the vehicles we drive are going to be insured'

Talking about travelling round with an enormous tent, which is getting used because the workforce's pop-up travelling studio, the 56-year-old stated: 'That is our new travelling studio tent. 

'We'll be roaming the world in it, we will be like gipsies, solely the vehicles we drive are going to be insured.'

Co-host Richard Hammond rapidly interjected jokingly: 'Cease saying issues which might be going to get us fired.' 

Clarkson went on to say that he could not be fired as a result of the present was 'on the web which suggests I might pleasure a horse.'

However now chiefs at the Traveller Motion organisation, which fights for the rights of gipsies and travellers, stated they're apprehensive that jokes about gipsies might change into a 'working gag' on the hit present.

The organisation has now contacted TV regulator Ofcom to complain that Clarkson's feedback have been 'racist and offensive'.

Pictured: Clarkson, Hammond and Could tear up a freeway within the American desert throughout the opening scenes of the Grand Tour - however Amazon refused to say what number of watched

Pictured: The trio pace in entrance of 150 different vehicles value thousands and thousands in direction of a crowd of followers of their Mustangs throughout the dramatic opening of the debut episode

A spokesman for the Traveller Motion confirmed that it had alerted the TV regulator about its considerations - saying that Clarkson's feedback straight implied that travellers and gipsies broke the legislation by not insuring their vehicles and caravans.

Ben Bennett, a Romany Gipsy campaigner who has appeared on Channel 5 present Gipsy Children, wrote on Twitter that Clarkson's 'joke' was 'disgraceful'.

On the Chorley Romany Fb group a spokesman wrote: 'I discover that nearly the very first thing they did was make racist jokes about gipsies not having their vans insured. 

'They'd been in bother for simply this type of behaviour on The BBC, however now they're on Amazon they clearly assume that they'll get away with it.'

Helena Higgitt wrote on the Travellers' Occasions Fb web page: 'The prat thinks he's untouchable. He's simply an all spherical disagreeable, spoilt by his mommy particular person.'

Many followers declared that the Grand Tour was higher than High Gear, which has floundered with out the workforce

Leilah Archer wrote: 'Is not racism a hate crime? Or not, for overpaid underneath educated, senseless, reckless outdated boy racers?!'

Pat Little wrote: 'Only a loud-mouthed moron!!'

Clarkson has beforehand landed in sizzling water for slagging off travellers - when he put up an indication with 'Pikey's Peak' written on it throughout an episode of High Gear in 2014.

He was cleared of racism after by the BBC Belief after it dominated that his use of the world 'pikey' was not designed to 'offend gipsies and travellers'.

A spokesman for Ofcom instructed the Traveller Motion that any content material would 'be assessed' utilizing Ofcom procedures and insurance policies. 

Amazon has hailed The Grand Tour - which prices £four.5million per episode - as its greatest TV success, saying it has damaged viewing data - however they will not say what number of watched individuals it. 

Amazon Prime says its first episode has change into the subscription service's greatest premiere, beating earlier primary present on the service, 2015's The Man In The Excessive Fortress.

SOME OF  CLARKSON'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL GAFFES

Ofcom stated he breached their tips when he referred to an Asian individual as a 'slope' on High Gear whereas on location in Burma.

In Could Clarkson sparked fury by attacking battle veterans offended by his notorious numberplate stunt in Argentina as a 'bolshy bunch of war-losing b****** w******'.

The previous BBC presenter sparked a diplomatic incident in 2014 by driving by way of the South American nation in a Porsche bearing a provocative H982 FKL numberplate.

Regardless of the Company insisting it was a 'sad coincidence', Clarkson and his workforce have been harangued out of Argentina as veterans accused the present of goading them over the Falklands.

However Clarkson refused to again down over the incident, saying he has 'no time' for the furore that ensued.

Simply final week Clarkson was 'kicked off' a flight after a row over a 'lack of meals' within the airport departure lounge, it has been claimed.

Clarkson punched Oisin Tymon in 2015 in a row over an absence of sizzling meals, main the BBC to not renew his contract.

He's stated to have flown right into a rage after being instructed he couldn't order steak after a day of filming, calling Mr Tymon a 'lazy, Irish c***' throughout the fracas.

Clarkson formally apologised to Mr Tymon earlier this 12 months. 

On one other event he described the now deceased actuality TV persona Jade Goody as a 'racist, pig-faced waste of blood and organs'.

Clarkson took goal at lorry drivers when he made what was seen to be a reference to Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and 'Suffolk Strangler' Steve Wright, who each drove lorries. 'What issues to lorry drivers? Murdering prostitutes? Gas financial system? It is a exhausting job and I am not simply saying this to win favour with lorry drivers: change gear; change gear; change gear; examine your mirrors; homicide a prostitute.'

'Drummers are a bit like houseflies. They're born, they make a noise, then they die.'

Throughout England's disastrous 2014 World Cup: 'It appears the Germans spend their time practising soccer slightly than getting tattoos and silly haircuts. A lesson for England maybe.'

'Mexico would not have an Olympic workforce… as a result of anybody who can run, bounce or swim is already throughout the [US] border.'

He mocked Indian tradition in a High Gear Christmas particular when he staged a sequence of Carry On-style digs on the nation's clothes, trains, bogs, meals and historical past. 

At one level, he ridiculed the unhygienic circumstances and lack of sanitation among the many poor by driving across the slums in a Jaguar fitted with a bathroom. Exhibiting off the automobile's comfort, he boasted: 'That is excellent for India as a result of everybody who comes right here will get the trots.'

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