Not one to shy away from controversy, Clarkson Farm star Jeremy Clarkson is in trouble for words he said to a lawyer caught in the second series of the hit Prime Video show.
In the episode where the council met to discuss planning permission for a Diddly Squat restaurant and car park Jeremy can be heard telling the barrister representing the council he “should learn to spell”
It left the 62-year-old presenter in hot water as the lawyer in question, Charles Streeten, wrote an open letter to say he hadn’t expected the remark to feature in the programme and went on so say it wasn’t the first time he had heard the phrase, The Mirror Reports.
His letter read: “‘Learn to spell.’ Well, I’ve certainly tried. When you muttered those words to me you couldn’t have known how many times I’ve heard them. But to a dyslexic, it’s a familiar phrase.”
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“No matter how hard I worked, or how often I stowed the list of words beneath my pillow, when the time came to be tested, I simply could not put the letters in order with certainty. My ears would burn and I would know I’d failed again,” According to The Times.
The letter continued: “No one has ever better expressed the simmering frustration of a dyslexic education than your friend, AA Gill.” who was a close friend of Clarkson’s
He finished: “Whether a writer, a barrister, or a farmer, good spelling, it seems, is not essential.”
Clarkson has released a statement, responding: “It’s great that Mr Streeten has overcome his dyslexia to such an extent that he’s able to send such a well-spelt letter from Jamaica.
“It’s just a shame he chose not to mention his learning difficulty when we met at the planning meeting more than a year ago. Because if he had, the exchange would not have been televised.”
In the letter, Charles said he was inspired by dyslexic journalist AA Gill, who was a close friend of Jeremy’s, saying: “No one has ever better expressed the simmering frustration of a dyslexic education than your friend, AA Gill.”
He also insisted that his dyslexia hasn’t impacted his career. Ending his letter, he said: “Whether a writer, a barrister, or a farmer, good spelling, it seems, is not essential.”
A spokesman for Clarkson’s Farm said Jeremy’s comment in the meeting had come “after Streeten had presented his case against a planning application which focused on provocative statements about Clarkson’s personality rather than the merits of the case”.
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