Richard Hammond has spoken out about a controversial joke he made last year about ice cream being "gay".
In December 2016, Hammond was presenting on The Big Tour when he said he didn't want to eat ice cream because it was "something to do with being straight" and "ice cream is a bit...you know."
Clarkson replied: "You're saying all children are homosexual?" To which Hammond responded: "There's nothing wrong with it, but a grown man eating an ice cream — it's that way, rather than that way."
Now, in an interview with the Times Magazine he said he never set out to offend anyone or "cause genuine difficulty for anyone".
"Anyone who knows me knows that I wasn't being serious, that I'm not homophobic. Love is love, whatever the sex of the two people in love," he said.