Jeremy Clarkson: injunction 'futile' after Twitter Gossips

Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear anchor, has unveiled that he lifted an injunction interdiction the publication of features about his so-called affair with his ex-wife after the claims were outed online.

Last night Clarkson said the gagging order became "futile" when his name was connected with the charges on websites counting Twitter.

"Injunctions don't work," he told the Daily Mail. "You remove an injunction against anybody or some group and sooner news of that injunction and the people concerned and the report behind the injunction is in an official-free world on Twitter and the internet."

Clarkson said he was gone to lift the order after his mother and three children, Emily, Finlo and Katya, were disturbed by the online gossips.

"I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?" he told the Mail.

"There is also a guess of fault which goes hand in hand with an injunction."

Clarkson said he regretted his deeds from the day he took out the injunction, further that his mother was critically sick at the time he went to the High Court.

The broadcaster and newspaper columnist said his choice was also affected by the costs involved in the lawful procedure, which were "extremely luxurious".

"You utilized to be capable to take out an injunction and then just sit on it," he said. "But consequently of a newly court case you are now finally enforced by the courts to go to test."

Clarkson was arranged the gagging order last September after gossips surfaced that he was sleeping with his former wife, Alexandra Hall, in spite of being wedded to his present wife, Frances.

It prohibited the media from coverage “sexual or other confidential acts or dealings” between Clarkson and Ms Hall, in addition to the Top Gear celebrity's “personal thoughts and sentiments, his health and other financial issues”.

Clarkson was quoted to in court as only AMM, while Ms Hall was referred to as HXW.

But after effectively covering up his so-called unfaithfulness in the courts, his name started to surface online in relating to the unidentified injunction.

This provoked a series of baseless stories relating to Clarkson to several of glamorous super stars, as well as writer and campaigner Jemima Khan.

Previous this year, Mrs Hall featured secretly in a newspaper interview in which she assaulted the confidentially injunction contributed to her ex-husband, the Mail reports.

"I have no name. I have no voice," she said. "I am referred to as a set of preliminary. Who am I? I can't tell you, as if I do I could have a jail term for disdain of court. I am a nobody. I don't count."

Mrs. Hall said injunctions were a form of "harassment by the wealthy and powerful", acknowledging that she still had feelings for the man concerned at the time.

"My motive was completely therapeutic," she said. "The reality that I might be paid for it would have been a bonus. So far, here I was, with the risk of lockup hanging over my head because my 'ex' desired to keep his name out of the papers."

Mrs. Hall, an industrialist who has come out on Dragon's Den, said she was left "terrified, perplexed and angry" by the gagging order.