Jeremy Clarkson

Whose, granjura?

The BBC- beggars belief! If he had to be sacked from on programme due to his outrageous behaviour and violence- employing hime on any other programme is totally out of order imho.

"Jeremy's contract has not been renewed on Top Gear but he isn't banned from appearing on the BBC," a BBC spokesman said.

As I said, he'd already signed up for the HIGNFY appearance/s.

It may not seem right, but the BBC has only 'sacked' him from Top Gear.

I wouldn't watch him on any programme.

Angus Deyton was sacked from HIGNFY for being caught taking drugs. Jeremy Clarkson is allowed to appear after an act of violence.

Exactly- makes no sense- and total hypocrisy. Anyone got the link to write to the Beeb and give them a piece of my mind. I'd encourage others who feel the same to do so too- thanks!

I'm going to watch it so I won't be doing any complaining. Angus Deyton might be a bit miffed though.

I think there was a bit more to Angus Deyton's sacking than just taking drugs - if it had just been that they'd have to sack half the BBC staff! Allegedly.

Weren't there tapes of orgies with call-girls etc. as well?

Probably, ana. Can't remember that far back

Your choice, of course. How do you answer your GS when he asks 'Clarkson beat someone up and was sacked, so why he is on telly granny'?

My grandsons are old enough to form their own opinions, granjura and that goes for my DGDs as well.

I believe that I would say that this was a pre-arranged booking, and that the BBC had only banned him from TG. As far as I can gather, that would be a factual explanation.

I won't watch anything with Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand after that mess they got into over the phone call to Andrew Sachs. I certainly won't watch anything in which Jeremy Clarkson appears either, not that I did before come to that. I quite like HIGNFY, but won't watch it if JC is appearing. I am very selective in what I watch on TV these days.

And I'm very much looking forward to the programme too!

Factual indeed- but would it make any sense to your GC- if you (in general sense, not personal) are trying to inculc some sense of morality and stance v. violence towards other human beings. It would not to me.

Probably the fact that he'd been sacked from Top Gear would be enough information for most GC, as that's all they know him from.

What he did was wrong and totally out of order and I thought he had been sacked by the BBC which meant any and every programme.

However, if we took a moral stance on any programme in which someone appeared who had done something wrong we wouldn't be able to watch much at all.

Of course, but the point is that he was sacked for violence towards another co-worker. Imagine a teacher being sacked when teaching maths then getting another job at the same school teaching biology. Or being sacked at one school, and then going on to another school to teach. What sense would that make??? Don't get it.

Surely it is not about whether we like him or not, like his shows or not- this ir irrelevant in this 'debate'. And kids are not stupid, they can see right through hypocrisy of that kind.

Actually I suppose its good for kids to see that life's not necessarily fair.

Sort of as they did with Peodophile priests- just send them to another parish.

They're not going to see it as hypocrisy are they granjura?

He's not on Top Gear any more. That's all they're going to be bothered about. Do you really want to engage young children in debates about morality and hypocrisy and whether they should feel guilty if they happen to see JC on another tv progamme in the future? I don't, and certainly won't be giving any moral lectures on the subject to my own GC.

Neither will I.

I wasn't best pleased when DGD2 bought Russell Brand's book with the birthday money I gave her but she's an intelligent teenager and capable of forming her own opinions so I kept mine to myself.

Young children perhaps not- more talking about teenagers, who are very astute and will know hypocrisiy where they say it, and injustice.

see it, even ...