Jeremy Clarkson

You may well be right Ana - he still needs a boot up the posterior though!

Feeble??

Maybe we should have a tut tut emoticon

I think the reason this thread has run to 21 pages (so far) is because everyone is enjoying themselves - more than they would on a politics thread perhaps?

Apparently he has now been sacked by the BBC. The report says that he punched the producer so hard in the mouth that he had to attend A&E.

Blimey KatyK Well if that's the case he certainly deserved to be sacked.

I'd heard mutterings of a split lip. Violence is never acceptable.

I agree and apparently it was preceded by a 20 minute foul mouthed tirade. Horrible creature.

And he had the nerve to act like he'd somehow been victimised, calling the BBC "fucking bastards".

I wonder how many of those people that signed a petition in support of him would still think he deserved to stay on - I fear quite a few of them.|

Most of them certainly. The point is that they enjoy his performance - nothing to do with his behaviour off-screen.

Including David Cameron (who thought it was right to include his 11 year old daughter in the appeal to keep Clarkson on). What does that say about DC's attitude to violence? Can we expect a retraction from him?

Clarkson has had an on-going feud with Piers Morgan (another one we either like or loathe). He commented on Twitter about Clarkson's sacking and someone has tweeted back to him 'why can't today's breaking news be that you have been found dead?' Sounds like Clarkson has some very pleasant supporters.

How many of the morons who voted for his retention at BBC would say the same if it was their family member who was assaulted? I haven't read the whole of this post, but think that the producer who was allegedly assaulted has kept a quiet dignity about the whole affair, more than can be said for the loud mouth Clarkson. Also, I have wondered if the whole thing was engineered by Clarkson? He sold his share in Top Gear for a huge amount of money last year, and now that he has been fired by the BBC he can go and work for his buddies at News Corp/Sky; after all he writes for The Sun and hunts with Rebecca Brooks. Sorry if this has been raised previously, but I couldnt read the entire 21 pages of this OP!

If you had the number of posts per page set at 50 like me, there'd only be 11 pages to read!

It seems a particularly nasty way to go about getting sacked on purpose, I'd have thought he'd have done something outrageous but which wouldn't show him in a bad light to the general public. Although 'his' public don't seem to care...

Will try that ana. He is guilty of believing his own publicity I think, felt he was beyond normal rules of behaviour probably. Just went over to DM and read reports, and James May, who I always thought was intelligent and not too much of a prat ( praise indeed from me), has said that this is a tragedy. Tell that to the families flying out to The Alps to collect their dead teenagers from the plane crash. It is not a tragedy, it is the end of a very silly, although popular TV programme, no more.

I cant see how giving someone a cut lip which needed A&E, would have been a wise way at all to go about hit.

I am wondering who is going to dare hire him.
But may be there are indeed many queueing up.

I find even a 20 minute irate rant at a person to be out of order myself.
20 minutes is a very long time, whether it is in the work place or at home.

It says a 'tragedy'.

I never know, when something is written like that, if that is the exact word said, or a paraphrase.

James May said 'It's a tragedy' when asked his views on Clarkson's sacking. I've just watched the video footage.

GillT57 I was just about to post something very similar. I think James May will come to regret that choice of words.

In which case, he is wrong.

replying to Ana's post.

Unfortunately I don't think this is going to hit Clarkson in the wallet area, he'll probably be offered something with Sky. Wish he had a clause in his contract that forbade him from taking up similar work with a rival organisation.

I read somewhere that more people signed the "reinstate Clarkson" petition than the "Stop FGM" one

Good riddance as the man is a thug.
However he will probably have the last laugh because he will more than likely be snapped by another TV channel who will pay him even more dosh that the BBC !!
Thete is no justice.

Well, at least the tv licence fee payer won't be contributing towards his obscenely huge remuneration any more!

Channel 4 said previously that they don't want him anyway as they don't condone that sort of behaviour.

I hope the producer doesn't get repercussions from this - I think there have been some very unpleasant threats towards him online.