Jeremy Clarkson

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...

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!

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.

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?

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

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.|

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

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

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

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.

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?

Feeble??

Maybe we should have a tut tut emoticon

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

Yes, but wasn't it clutching pearls, not handbags?

I think "Feeble* has said that before....

Money talks it would seem!

I would not want to be his "minder" - I would demand a crash helmet and suit of armour!

Oh, thanks merlot!

Your google is as good as mine, absent!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3004608/Revealed-cost-sacking-Clarkson-BBC-lose-67MILLION-year-Gear-presenter-gets-boot.html

According to DM

I accept that the BBC makes a lot of money through Top Gear being shown in countries all over the world but I have read estimates of how much that vary between £30 and £55 million. Does anyone know the actual figure?

exclusive

I saw that too, online somewhere (sorry, I read it and it flitted through my mind). He will have a different producer who will take charge of him.
Will they ever find anyone?

Another DM excusive!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3001674/Clarkson-BBC-minder-Executive-sit-producer-Andy-Wilman-bosses-fear-lifelong-friend-Gear-host-check.html

I havent seen what you are talking about Jane10, but a "minder" gives me a mental image of him being about 6.
I have an image of him being on reins next.

Where did you find that piece of info Jane? - I can't find it on the net.