Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who is currently in hot water over his alleged use of the 'n-word', reportedly used to sell controversial golliwogs made by his family's firm.
Clarkson reportedly carried on promoting the racist toys even after a storm of protest broke out, and at one point the row over the golliwogs made by Gabrielle Designs was featured on national TV news.
However, Clarkson's late parents ignored the protest over the soft toys and blamed a 'muesli-shoed do-gooder' from Islington who had seen a golliwog in a shop window, the Mirror reported.
Clarkson's former wife Alex Hall said that the Top Gear presenter had no embarrassment at all about selling golliwogs and he loved it in fact.
These events happened when Clarkson had been a young man, almost 30 years ago, and worked as a salesman for Gabrielle Designs in the early 1980s.
Alex said that Clarkson went on to work for his parents' firm, which had been reacting to a sales dip at the time and brought out the new line of golliwogs, as a sales rep after doing a sting on the Rotherham Advertiser newspaper when he left school.
Clarkson's former wife said that the TV show presenter even gave her a golliwog, adding that she remembers a lot of mirth and merriment because they were not allowed to call them golliwogs anymore, and they had to call them gollies.