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Jeremy Clarkson has begged viewers' forgiveness after he appeared to use the N-word during filming of his BBC programme Top Gear.

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In a video statement posted online on Thursday, he said that he had tried to obscure the word when reciting the 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe' nursery rhyme to chose between two cars, but that his efforts to do so 'weren't quite good enough'.

Clarkson had previously issued a robust denial of the allegation, telling his 3.2 million Twitter followers: 'I did not use the N-word. Never use it. The Mirror has gone way too far this time.'

But footage of the incident was later posted on The Daily Mirror website. In it Clarkson recites the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe' before apparently mumbling: 'Catch a nigger by his toe.'

His apology came after a day of growing calls for the BBC to sack him. The corporation issued a strongly worded statement saying: 'Jeremy Clarkson has set out the background to this regrettable episode. We have made it absolutely clear to him, the standards the BBC expects on air and off. We have left him in no doubt about how seriously we view this.'.

Downing Street condemned any use of the word, saying that David Cameron – a friend of Clarkson's – would 'certainly not' use it.

Aliya Mohammed, the chief executive of Race Equality First, called for immediate action from the BBC.

She said: 'I am appalled at yet another open display of racism from Clarkson. How many racist comments will the BBC allow from the presenter? It makes me question whether Clarkson feels it would be acceptable because he thinks viewers and others within the BBC share his views.

'Racism is illegal and it has no place in modern society. I urge as many people as possible to show their condemnation of this abhorrent display of racism. A public personality should set an example to viewers and Clarkson is clearly a very bad example.'

Lawyers for the Indian-born actor Somi Guha, who appeared in The Bill and other television shows, made a formal complaint to the BBC Trust as calls for Clarkson to be sacked gathered pace. In the letter, which was also sent to the media regulator Ofcom and has been seen by the Guardian, the lawyer Lawrence Davies demanded an external investigation into how the offensive language had come to be edited out of the show and whether Clarkson had been reprimanded.

Davies, director of the law firm Equal Justice Solicitors, said Clarkson would be dismissed in any other line of work. 'It's appalling. He's a repeat offender and should be sacked,' he said.

'If he was a Ukip councillor in a private meeting I believe they would suspend or dismiss him. If he was the owner of an American basketball team he would be fined and banned. But the BBC consider themselves unaccountable on the issue of racism.'

The prime minister's spokesman said: 'In terms of any usage of that word, that would be quite wrong.'

He added that the BBC would be investigating the claims. 'If there are those types of reports and allegations I'm sure that is something the BBC will look at.'

Clarkson, who earned more than £14m last year for his Top Gear work, is understood to have spoken to senior BBC figures on Thursday morning as part of the corporation's investigation into the allegations.

Executives learned about the controversy only when a preview of the Mirror's front page was published online on Wednesday night.

Clarkson's Top Gear co-host James May earlier leapt to the star's defence. May told his 1.4 million Twitter followers: 'Jeremy Clarkson is not a racist. He is a monumental bellend and many other things, but not a racist. I wouldn't work with one. #ThatIsAll.'

Piers Morgan, the former CNN presenter with a long history of feuding with Clarkson, led calls on Twitter for him to be dismissed. He said Clarkson should be 'TV toast', and added: 'Ron Atkinson was fired by @ITV for using the N-word. Don't see how the BBC can avoid firing @JeremyClarkson if he did the same … In America, he'd be fired by now.'

The programme, aired in February 2013, showed Clarkson standing between a Toyota GT86 and a Subaru BRZ and saying: 'Both cost the same, they have the same bodies and the same interiors with the same equipment.

'They are even built by the same people in the same factory. You might imagine then that it's quite hard to choose between them, but actually, it isn't. Watch, because this is how you do it.'

In the unaired footage – which was later passed to the Mirror – the presenter then recites the children's counting rhyme and appears to use the N-word under his breath before pointing at the Toyota and shrugging: 'Toyota it is.' The offensive term was removed from the episode, according to the Mirror. In the broadcast version, Clarkson recited the rhyme but this time used the word 'teacher'.

Clarkson's full apology

'Ordinarily I don't respond to newspaper allegations but on this occasion I feel I must make an exception. A couple of years ago I recorded an item for Top Gear in which I quote the rhyme 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe'. Of course, I was well aware that in the best-known version of this rhyme there is a racist expression that I was extremely keen to avoid. The full rushes show that I did three takes. In two, I mumbled where the offensive word would normally occur and in the third I replaced it altogether with the word teacher. Now when I viewed this footage several weeks later I realised that in one of the mumbled versions if you listen very carefully with the sound turned right up it did appear that I'd actually used the word I was trying to obscure. I was mortified by this, horrified. It is a word I loathe and I did everything in my power to make sure that that version did not appear in the programme that was transmitted.

'I have here the note that was sent at the time to the production office and it says: 'I didn't use the N-word here but I've just listened through my headphones and it sounds like I did. Is there another take that we could use?'

'Please be assured I did everything in my power to not use that word, as I'm sitting here begging your forgiveness for the fact my efforts obviously weren't quite good enough, thank you.'

Primark has pulled thousands of Walking Dead t-shirts from its shelves after a Methodist minister complained the phrase 'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' was racist.

The t-shirts show the American TV programme's latest villain Negan holding a bloodied baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, which he uses to smash his victim’s heads. The rhyme 'Eeny, Meeny Miny, Moe' is written on them.

The character, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the hit show about survivors of the zombie apocalypse, calls his bat Lucille and used it to kill long-standing favourites Glen and Abraham at the start of the most recent 7th season.

Primark has pulled thousands of Walking Dead t-shirts (pictured) from its shelves after a Methodist minister complained the phrase 'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' was racist

The t-shirts (left) show the American TV programme's latest villain Negan (right) holding a bloodied baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, which he uses to smash his victim’s heads

Before killing the pair, Negan - who leads a gang called The Saviours - decided on who to kill by pointing to his victims one-by-one with the baseball bat, while saying 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by his toe'.

But after Sheffield couple Ian and Gwen Lucraft spotted the t-shirt in a Primark store last week, they complained to bosses that it was 'offensive'.

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Methodist minister Mr Lucraft said the 'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' rhyme was racist as it was well known that the rhyme went on to say 'catch a n***** by his toe'.

He also said the bloodied bat was offensive, adding: 'We were shocked when we came face to face with a new t-shirt with a racially explicit graphic and text.

Sheffield couple Ian and Gwen Lucraft spotted the t-shirt in a Primark store last week and complained that it was 'offensive'

'It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing or were aware of its subliminal messages.'

He said that 'everyone knows' the 'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' phrase continues with 'catch a n***** by his toe', adding: 'The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood.

'This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America.

'It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood.'

Mr Lucraft fired off a letter to Primark chief executive Paul Marchant asking him to remove the t-shirt from sale - and bosses decided to do so following the complaint.

A spokesman for Primark confirmed the t-shirts are now being removed from all of its 300-odd stores, adding: 'The t-shirt in question is licensed merchandise for the U.S. television series, The Walking Dead, and the quote and image are taken directly from the show.

'Any offence caused by its design was wholly unintentional and Primark sincerely apologises for this.'

He added: 'Primark is currently removing the product from sale.'

The 'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' counting rhyme has been around since the 18th century, with tiger replacing the word 'n*****' in more recent versions.

Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson apologised after an outtake from the programme in 2014 showed him reciting the rhyme and mumbling what some claimed was 'catch a n***** by his toe'.

CLARKSON'S WARNING ABOUT USING THE N-WORD ON TOP GEAR

Ex-Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson was forced to apologise in 2014 for 'appearing' to use the n-word in unaired footage

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson was forced to apologise in 2014 for 'appearing' to use the n-word in unaired footage of the BBC show.

The corporation apparently put him on his final warning in May of that year, 10 months before he was sacked for punching a Top Gear producer.

An internal investigation by the corporation concluded the star, 54, launched an 'unprovoked' 30-second physical attack on Oisin Tymon because he was offered a plate of cold cuts instead of steak and chips.

A year earlier, unaired footage of him using the 'eeny meeny' nursery rhyme to compare two sports cars was leaked to the media.

Historically, the rhyme was 'Eeny meeny miny moe, catch a n***** by his toe', and Clarkson said he 'mumbled' in two takes to avoid using the racist term - which made it sound like he was saying it.

In the third, which was broadcast, he said the word 'teacher' instead.

In the wake of the scandal, he said: 'I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked.'