Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson posts apology video on TwitPic to claim he didn't use racist language following tabloid reports

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has posted a video on Twitter to deny using racist language following a report by The Daily Mirror. Clarkson posted the direct to camera statement on Twitpic explaining that the footage of him quoting a nursery rhyme than included the N-word was shot three times, and that he was against the use of the word.

I did not use the n word. Never use it. The Mirror has gone way too far this time.

— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) May 1, 2014

this is my statement. http://t.co/mfOqcltZAV

— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) May 1, 2014

“It is a word I loathe” he went on to state, adding that the version in which he appeared to use the word, but claims he didn't, was not used. He also read from a letter he claimed was sent to the production office to ask them to use another taken from the one in which he “appeared” to use the word. “Please be assured that I did everything in my power to not use that word and as I am sitting here, begging you forgiveness that my efforts were not quite good enough,” he concluded. James May, Clarkson ‘s Top Gear co-presenter also took to Twitter to defend him.

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

— James May (@MrJamesMay) May 1, 2014

Clarkson’s video apology has so far been viewed over 760,000 times at the time of writing.