Top Gear's Clarkson suspended by BBC

but, the business would continue

Maybe the executive producer and the other two key presenters said it was a load of bollocks and all refused to go ahead with the programme in protest at the way Clarkson was being treated?

But then we would be back in the area of wild supposition based on rumour in the absence of facts…

It’s like the ‘leaking’ of a certain out-take where Clarkson mumbled something close to an offensive word, that could only have been got hold of by someone with access to the tapes… so it would also be an entirely feasible possibility that someone decided to turn a storm in a thimble in the canteen into something much larger because they were pursuing their own agenda!

£150M that’ll just about pay for the taxi’s to and from Salford to London.

Accoding to the Telegraph:

Clarkson, 54, is reported to have hit Oisin Tymon, 36, after being told no dinner had been laid on for the presenters after they finished filming for the BBC2 show one evening last week.

A source told The Sun: “Jeremy had a massive bust-up with one of the male show producers and he ended up smacking him in the face. Everyone was absolutely stunned.

“It was all over a catering issue. Jeremy just saw red and hit the assistant producer, who he blamed for not having organised the food.”

The Daily Mirror quoted a source saying: “They came to the end of filming after a long day and Jeremy discovered that no food had been laid on. He just saw red and hit the assistant producer, who he blamed for not having organised the food. He snapped.”

A source close to Clarkson insisted he was innocent and that “he didn’t punch anyone”.

PREFACE: I gave up watching the current format of Top Gear several years ago on account of it being rather boring. Anyway, not letting that get in the way….

Why’s everyone getting in such a tizz about this? I mean it’s hardly surprising, is it?

What surprises me more is that people seem to think that Clarkson is the most irritating of the three presenters. He isn’t. That’s James May. What a **** ****.

That’s James May. What a **** ****.

No, the comedy stylings of Richard Hammond do it for me.

Oh well, if it was reported in both the Sun and the Daily Mirror then it must be true!

… and he hasn’t been arrested for common assault. Why is that?

Also, judging by the state of him, he probably punches like a weak bag of flab anyway. Bit like “doing a Prescott”…

ninfan – Member
Oh well, if it was reported in both the Sun and the Daily Mirror then it must be true!

I didn’t say it was.
Everything I quoted was from that bastion of lefty political correctness, the Telegraph, btw.

Never mind all that, 54. That’s fifty-bloody-four! He looks old enough to be my dad.

Also, judging by the state of him, he probably punches like a weak bag of flab anyway. Bit like “doing a Prescott”…

I thought that. I bet, if you hit him, he’d cry.

Everything I quoted was from that bastion of lefty political correctness, the Telegraph, btw.

And if you bothered to read it, it was the telegraph quoting what was reported in the Sun and Daily Mirror 🙄

a 12 year old boy has been radicalized and has killed a man on camera for the world to see in a religious execution and people are worrying about 2 millionaires punching each other? what is wrong with the world?

ninfan – Member

And if you bothered to read it, it was the telegraph quoting what was reported in the Sun and Daily Mirror

Yes, I know.
🙂

rumple – Member
a 12 year old boy has been radicalized and has killed a man on camera for the world to see in a religious execution and people are worrying about 2 millionaires punching each other?

How do you know the producer is a millionaire?
How do you know he punched him back?

And if you bothered to read it, it was the telegraph quoting what was reported in the Sun and Daily Mirror

so the telegraph reporting what other media are reporting isn’t the telegraph reporting?

I’m lost here..

There cannot be many jobs where you can punch , or attempt to punch you boss, and keep your job and still be a prep school educated man of the common people.

wild supposition based on rumour is a game we can all play, but so far it’s all on the side of ‘guilt by accusation’

if we are talking only in idioms then no smoke without fire.

Why do you think he was suspended then …Liberal conspiracy by tofu knitters?

If it’s top gear, or another, singing/cooking/baking/painting/sewing/dancing “show”..well I don’t care who presents it, get someone from isis for all I care..

o the telegraph reporting what other media are reporting isn’t the telegraph reporting?

It s even more confusing now
Is ninfan reporting on Rusty reporting on what the telegraph reported was reported in the sun and the mirror reporting or not?
Well is it?

There cannot be many jobs where you can punch , or attempt to punch you boss, and keep your job

Got one!

Tube train driver ? 😉

Got one!

No one likes a smart arse 😀

Well played sir , well played.

Lets see what comes out in the wash huh.

If he did deck somebody he’s got to go. Irrespective of what me, you or Stuart Lee thinks of him. A shame, I like Top Gear without actually having much time for Clarkson, but without him it wouldn’t work.

£150m sales revenue a year pissed away over a plate of sandwiches. I bet somebody at BEEB finance is delighted.

Season 23, under a different name, will be new and exclusive on SKYONE starting November 8th and repeated every two hours on DAVE. I look forward to my Sky susbscription increasing to cover the catering bills.

Personally I reckon Hammond would be more justified.

may, and I stress the may, give the Beeb the kick up the arse it so desperately needs

I’m not sure losing an hours programming for 12 Sundays out of the year is going to result in relaunching the Beeb, but we will wait and see.

I’m still not going to watch I’m the Midwife anyway. So there.

May have been justified?

I don’t think James May is that sort of bloke.

I can get over being called a Moron 😆

Ohh the shame, ohh the indignity, ohh the irony.

😆

😀 @ aracer

No one likes a smart arse
Well played sir , well played.

Well in here everyone doesn’t like someone, we need a poll to see who’s lost the most.

Season 23, under a different name, will be new and exclusive on SKYONE starting November 8th and repeated every two hours on DAVE. I look forward to my Sky susbscription increasing to cover the catering bills

I hope the beeb keep TG and improve it.
Or at least return it to what it was before he became bigger than the show.

Clarkson will get a Sky talk show, where he will have the opportunity to hone his ‘comic persona’/revel in his prejudice.

Clarkson will get a Sky talk show, where he will have the opportunity to hone his ‘comic persona’/revel in his prejudice.

He already had one. It was dire.

How about the Duke of Edinburgh as a replacement for Clarkson? About time he earned his keep.

Too busy organising the control structures of the political and religious elite.

The illuminati don’t run themselves, Phil must be a busy boy.

Phils review of a classic white Fiat Uno will be an interesting one 😀

The Bringbackclarkson petition is up to 300,000, No more page 3 took 3 years to get to 240,000. This goes to show how much the British public like tits.

**** hell. Seeing his face on the front cover of every newspaper this morning was enough to make me taste breakfast all over again.

The level of barely surpressed man love on this thread is hilarious.

The number of twitter followers he has is increasing at quite some rate.

(Clarkson that is not Phil the Greek*)

* am I allowed to say that on here ?

UKIP are running at 15% in the polls, which equates to about 7 million voters. Clearly there are a lot more than 300,000 stupid people.

Top Gear is one of the most entertaining shows on TV. I was enjoying this years show too.

I like Clarkson, he’s a ****, but I like him, and if you take his anti-cycling rants, or any other “non-pc” rants with a pinch of salt (as I suspect the show/he intends you to), he’s very entertaining.

I can’t think of any other shows I actually watch on the BBC to be honest…

UKIP are running at 15% in the polls, which equates to about 7 million voters. Clearly there are a lot more than 300,000 stupid people.

Are UKIP supporters stupid? Please explain.

First the BBC lost its edgy comedy. Then it was reborn and then they tried killing BBC3, BBC lost F1, possibly a watered-down soon to be shot Topgear.

Will they have any motoring content at all left or will it be dross and everyone else puts out quality output?

You mean dross like this?