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The LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell has said Richard Hammond's comments likening eating ice cream to being gay are 'absurd'.

Speaking to 5 Live's Adrian Chiles, the campaigner said: "It's a perverse world when everyday pleasures like ice cream becomes the butt of homophobic innuendo... His pandering to prejudice is bad enough, of course. But the audience applause that he got makes it even worse, and I think it shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter."

Hammond made the comments to an audience in a recent episode of the Grand Tour. When asked what his message to the presenter would be, Tatchell said: "Stop being such a silly boy! Grow up! I mean really, the idea that there's something gay about eating ice cream is just frankly absurd."

This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on Tuesday 27 December 2016