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I have no idea what controversy you are even referring to, so I’m not sure the two are comparable.

If you don’t know what I’m even referring to, then you can’t say if they’re comparable. 

I guess the better comparison is Piers. And this Meghan comment wasn’t said on ITV. Plus Jeremy sort-of apologized. I think if advertisers had issues with Millionaire then I would reassess my view that Clarkson will survive.

Yeah, the power of advertisers is strong. That's how the News of the World newspaper met it's demise, there was a scandal, advertisers withdrew, and it suddenly went from the best selling Sunday paper to folding. Though News Corp did replace it with The Sun on Sunday a year later. Obviously ITV can't afford anything similar happening, so if advertisers hint at withdrawing, the offending person would immediately get the chop and be disassociated with the company. Clarkson doesn't seem to be in that severe a situation.