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Jeremy Clarkson has appeared to make a bad-taste joke about Oscar Pistorius in front of a South African audience.

The disgraced Top Gear host made light of the killing of model Reeva Steenkamp by pretending to accidentally ‘shoot’ a member of the audience during a live show with a paintball gun.

The former Top Gear presenter made the reference during his Clarkson, Hammond & May Live tour - formerly called Top Gear Live.

Neither Clarkson nor his co-hosts James May or Richard Hammond mentioned Pistorius or Reeva directly, but their comments left some audience members stunned.

Footage has emerged from the South African leg of the tour in which Clarkson pretends to “accidentally” shoot a member of the audience with a paintball gun.

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Clarkson then appears to compare the incident to revelations that emerged during the Oscar Pistorius case, he said: “I thought he was a burglar”.

James May then said: “Was that a member of the audience you just shot in the bathroom?

“S*** it’s just gone off. I’ve hit somebody in the audience - it’s right in the middle of his..”

May added: “I know we’ve changed the name of the show but not much else has changed.”

Hammond responded: “He’s just shot a member of the audience.”

Watch the incident above. The video of the footage was uploaded by YouTuber Justin Bekker.

Pistorius was sentenced to five years in jail last year for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in South Africa on Valentine's Day 2013.

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It has been reported that disgraced sprinter will be freed from prison in August.

The Paralympian claimed the killing was a tragic mishap after he mistook her for an intruder.

But the double amputee was found guilty of culpable homicide by a judge.