Jeremy Clarkson has taken aim at Huw Edwards after the disgraced former BBC newsreader quietly updated his Facebook profile picture.
Writing in his latest Friday column for The Sun, the Clarkson’s Farm presenter suggested the move had sparked speculation that Mr Edwards may be testing the waters for a return to public life.
Mr Edwards was arrested in November 2023 after being investigated over making indecent images of children, an offence which, under UK law, includes the downloading and receipt of such material.
He later pleaded guilty to three charges relating to 41 illegal images and video clips found within WhatsApp exchanges with convicted sex offender Alex Williams.
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Huw Edwards uploaded the new headshot to social media | FACEBOOK/HUW EDWARDSThe former BBC presenter, who received a two-year suspended sentence, changed his profile picture last week to a carefully staged black-and-white headshot, showing him in a suit jacket with white stubble and a faint smile.
The update prompted discussion online about whether Mr Edwards, 64, is attempting to rehabilitate his public image.
Mr Clarkson wrote: “After a professionally shot photograph of disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards surfaced this week, everyone has been speculating that he’s planning some kind of comeback.”
He added: “That’s probably true. In his head, he probably is wondering how he can resume his life.”
Huw Edwards admitted to making indecent images of children | PAHowever, the Clarkson Farm star dismissed any suggestion that a return would be possible, insisting it would “not happen in a million years”.
“It’s all very well saying that he could launch some kind of YouTube show on his own,” Mr Clarkson wrote.
“But who’d watch it? Again, the answer is ‘no one’.”
The columnist went on to argue that while some public figures have rebuilt careers after serious criminal convictions, there are now certain offences that make a comeback impossible.
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| GETTY“The simple fact of the matter is this: you can come back if you have been done for murder or fraud or GBH,” he claimed.
“But in these modern times, there are five crimes you can’t come back from.”
Mr Clarkson listed those as “saying something racist, saying something homophobic, denying that climate change exists, admitting you quite like some of what Donald Trump is doing”, before concluding that paedophilia sits above all else.
“The worst crime of them all is paedophilia,” he wrote.
“Even the wokists haven’t yet dreamed up a crime that’s worse than that.”
Elsewhere in the same column, the former Top Gear presenter turned his attention to global conflict, musing on which countries might be next to go to war.
Mr Clarkson said he often finds himself speculating about future flashpoints, naming Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan, as the “usual suspects”.
“But occasionally a war starts that no one saw coming,” he added, referencing the Falklands conflict between Britain and Argentina in 1982.
Jeremy Clarkson said that Hugh Edward's crime is not one he can come back from
| AMAZONHe also pointed to a recent diplomatic spat between Spain and Canada over fishing rights, before turning to tensions in Southeast Asia.
“This week, we received news that Thailand and Cambodia are having a bit of fighter jet and artillery squabbling on their 500-mile border,” he wrote.
“If those two dippy-hippy, peace-and-love nations are now at it, you really do wonder who’s next,” Clarkson concluded.
He joked: “My money is on Luxembourg and New Zealand.”
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