Following a controversial comment he made to a junior lawyer, Jeremy Clarkson is now facing backlash for his actions.
On a recent episode of his reality TV show Clarkson’s Farm, the 62-year-old made a jibe at Charles Streeten, who appeared on the show to explain why the council should reject Clarkson’s plans to convert a lambing shed into a restaurant.
According to Legal Cheek, during the tense exchange, the former Top Gear host told the barrister to "learn how to spell" - a comment that has provoked Streeten to speak out against the low blow.
In an open letter addressed to Clarkson, he recalled other experiences that have come to define him.
"'Learn to spell.' Well, I’ve certainly tried," he started, quoting the journalist's harsh words. "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."
He continued, talking about how no matter how he tried, he always seemed to fail "spelling tests" at school.
"My ears would burn and I would know I’d failed again," he explained. "It was at that school, as it happens the very same school to which you sent your daughter, that they told me a career at the bar wasn’t for me. Even at an institution that offers its pupils every imaginable advantage, becoming a barrister wasn’t realistic if you couldn’t pass a spelling test. The inability to arrange letters according to historical convention is, to this day, seen as the calling card of indolence or imbecility."
Streeten did not hold back in his response as he told Clarkson about the weight his words hold, adding that "People care what you have to say, not how you say it," before stating: "Dyslexia didn’t forestall my career at the bar. So far as I am aware, and despite the concern expressed by at least one member of my Chambers during pupillage, not one judge, juror, or West Oxfordshire planning committee member has ever failed to understand me because I cannot spell.
"Whether a writer, a barrister, or a farmer, good spelling, it seems, is not essential," he concluded, signing off the letter with his name.
As per the Daily Mail, the initial ruling about converting a lambing shed into a restaurant went in favor of Streeten and against Clarkson.
The news comes just shortly after the 62-year-old found himself in hot water - yet again - after making disturbing remarks about Megan Markle in a controversial column for The Sun.
In the piece, he wrote about his "hate" for her, adding that "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!'"
He apologized for his comments, however, it seems as though he's not learned his lesson.