HAMMOND’S AN ICE WALLY
MELTDOWN STAR ACCUSED OF HOMOPHOBIA
MOTORMOUTH Richard Hammond has been accused of “homophobic innuendo” after he claimed straight men don’t eat ice cream. The former Top Gear star was responding to a comment made by Jeremy Clarkson on the latest episode of car programme The Grand Tour, aired on Amazon Prime.
Clarkson pointed at a RollsRoyce and said: “The only problem is that in one of those, you couldn’t enjoy a chocolate Magnum ice cream.”
Hammond, 47, replied: “It’s all right, I don’t eat ice cream. It’s something to do with being straight.”
Clarkson, 56, asked: “What do you mean? You’re saying all children are homosexual?”
Hammond replied, saying: “Ice cream is a bit… you know,” before adding: “There’s nothing wrong with it, but a grown man eating an ice cream – it’s that way, rather than that way.”
LGBT rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: “It’s a perverse world when everyday pleasures like ice cream become the butt of homophobic innuendo.”
Charity Stonewall said: “The words were not just ridiculous, but chosen to mock and belittle.”