Carol Vorderman leads celebs slamming hypocrisy of Jeremy Clarkson over inheritance tax row

Carol Vorderman shone a airy connected Jeremy Clarkson's resurfaced comments astir wherefore helium bought his Diddly Squat farm, aft helium became the look of the farmers' protestation this week

Carol Vorderman, 63, has taken purpose astatine Jeremy Clarkson, 54, implicit his engagement successful the farmers’ protest connected Tuesday.

The Top Gear prima joined thousands of farmers successful London for the march, arsenic they headed to Westminster to protestation the caller “tractor tax.” While Jeremy rapidly became the look of the protest, erstwhile Countdown big Carol didn’t look sold by his activism.

Taking to Instagram connected Thursday morning, she reposted a Twitter station showing a photograph of Jeremy, with substance connected apical reading: “Man who told The Times successful 2021 that he’d lone bought his £4.25m workplace to debar paying inheritance taxation to pb protestation against inheritance taxation [laughing emoji].”

The station called backmost to an interrogation Jeremy gave with The Times backmost successful 2021, erstwhile helium admitted that helium bought his Diddly Squat farm to debar paying inheritance tax. At the time, onshore wasn’t taxable, meaning that - dissimilar currency successful the slope - the millions helium poured into the workplace could beryllium passed connected to his 3 children.

“That’s the captious thing,” helium told The Times. “So alternatively than conscionable person wealth successful the bank, and get a connection with numbers written connected it that gives nary 1 immoderate pleasance astatine all, you could deduce a large woody of pleasance and walk it connected to your children.”

Carol isn’t the 1 to propulsion his words backmost astatine him this week, aft Jeremy got into a spat with BBC Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire erstwhile she asked him astir his engagement successful the march. After Jeremy told the interviewer helium was determination to “support the farmers,” she questioned: “So it’s not astir your workplace and the information that you bought a workplace to debar inheritance tax?”

Jeremy rapidly got angry, and spot out: “You people... BBC. OK, let’s commencement from the beginning. I wanted to shoot, OK? That’s adjacent worse, to the BBC, I wanted to shoot. Which comes with the payment of not having to wage inheritance tax. Now I do.”

He past admitted helium had a mode astir the taxation anyway, saying: “But radical similar maine volition simply enactment it successful a trust, and truthful agelong arsenic I unrecorded for 7 years, that’s fine. And arsenic my girl said, you volition unrecorded for 7 years. You mightiness beryllium successful a heavy frost astatine the extremity of it, but you volition unrecorded for 7 years. But it’s incredibly clip consuming to person to bash that, and wherefore should each these radical person to bash that?”

Alongside Jeremy, Carol took different dig astatine the ace rich earlier this month. This time, Prince William and King Charles III were the people of her rage, aft a Channel 4 Dispatches probe showed the extent of their spot ownership, tax-free deals, and rental payments amounting to hundreds of millions per year. On Twitter, Carol called the fiscal dealings “grubby.”

"Shocking. Sunday @thetimes & #Dispatches probe into the grubby & secretive net of the Royal Family . Incl charging immense rents to Marie Curie & Macmillan charities WHICH THEY'RE PATRONS OF & which WE donate to. They get the money! The database is long,” she ranted arsenic 1 of 3 posts connected the topic.

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