Amazon “ends ties” with Jeremy Clarkson over Meghan Markle row.

Sources told us that Prime Video, the tech giant’s streaming service, will no longer be working with the British presenter beyond episodes of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm that have already been commissioned.

In December, the former Top Gear host published a controversial column in The Sun, writing that he despised Meghan on “a cellular level” and dreamt of the duchess being paraded naked through Britain while a crowd threw “excrement” at her.

He said his employers at Amazon and ITV, where he presents Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, were “incandescent” over his comments.

Mr Clarkson’s representatives have been contacted for a response. Amazon said: “We won’t be commenting on this and have nothing further to add.”

A press conference with Mr Clarkson to mark the upcoming second series of his award-winning farming programme was cancelled after reports of the Amazon split.

Shortly before reports emerged, Mr Clarkson issued a lengthy public apology on his Instagram account saying he “felt sick” when he realised he had “completely messed up” in writing the column that had become UK press watchdog IPSO’s most-complained about article ever.

In Monday’s statement, the presenter recounted the backlash he received. He said: “The Sun quickly apologised and I tried to explain myself. But still, there were calls for me to be sacked and charged with a hate crime.

“More than 60 MPs demanded action to be taken. ITV, who make Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Amazon, who make the Farm Show and the Grand Tour, were incandescent.”

Speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in December, managing director of ITV Studios Kevin Lygo said Mr Clarkson‘s comments about the Duchess of Sussex were “awful” but added that the broadcaster planned to keep him as the host of the gameshow “at the moment”.

In his apology Mr Clarkson said: “I’m just not sexist and I abhor violence against women.”

In an earlier controversy, Mr Clarkson was dropped from Top Gear in 2015 after it emerged he had physically attacked a producer on the wildly popular BBC motoring programme.

The public broadcaster parted ways with its star presenter at a time when Top Gear had recently been listed by the Guiness World Records as the most viewed factual programme worldwide.