Thread: Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear host, suspended by BBC

See you edited that one Gent , was it the " but I could be wrong " bit ?

There was a Yorkshire man,an Irish man and a Jew. The Irish man forgot to feed the Yorkshire man,so the Jew ....... Fill in the space as you want.


or should this be in the jokes and funny stories thread?

What fucking idiot decided to compare a guy who got angry and punched a producer to a paedophile and rapist!?

I think that the BBC boss that compared Clarkson to Jimmy Saville is definitely a paedophile himself.

Jesus, you lot still bitching over a former Rotherham Record grunt who turned into an arrogant old twat.

Top Gear ratings disaster: 4m viewers switch off after Jeremy Clarkson replaced

Top Gear's replacement in the schedules, a repeat of a Red Arrows documentary, drew just 1.3 million viewers as fans of Jeremy Clarkson switched off



Top Gear ratings disaster: 4m viewers switch off after Jeremy Clarkson replaced - Telegraph

A repeat of a Red Arrows documentary? How boring!! Gordon Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares might have been more appropriate.

Outright false reporting from the Telegraph who obviously think their subscibers don't read past the bullshit headline.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

What fucking idiot decided to compare a guy who got angry and punched a producer to a paedophile and rapist!?

I think that the BBC boss that compared Clarkson to Jimmy Saville is definitely a paedophile himself.

Deflects the blame, pin it on Clarkson, you have already created a gullible audience that swallows every bit of trip the BBC likes to sprout, so telling Me that Clarkson should have the same helicopter camera crew , who filmed a raid on Cliff Richards saucy den.
Sold to the highest bidder.

Originally Posted by Begbie

Outright false reporting from the Telegraph who obviously think their subscibers don't read past the bullshit headline.

then read the same story in the Guardian you lefty pinko commie anarchist benefit scrounging tree hugging squatter.

The BBC’s decision to pull Top Gear from the TV schedule has prompted more than 100 viewers to complain to the media regulator.

The corporation took the decision to “postpone” two episodes of Top Gear, and is undecided about whether to air a third, after suspending Jeremy Clarkson pending an investigation into his “fracas” with producer Oisin Tymon.

Ofcom has received 106 complaints about pulling the show, which regularly attracts more than 5 million viewers.

However, the BBC has refused to reveal how many people have complained directly.

Sunday night’s schedule filler, a documentary on RAF aerobatics team the Red Arrows, attracted an audience of just 1.3 million.

BBC's Jeremy Clarkson suspension: more than 100 complain to Ofcom | Media | The Guardian

Piwanoi or Peewee whatever your name is. Sorry fella I'm to busy enjoying my much loved free time to answer your personal messages regarding this topic.

Free time is great, seriously!

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Top Gear ratings disaster: 4m viewers switch off after Jeremy Clarkson replaced

Top Gear's replacement in the schedules, a repeat of a Red Arrows documentary, drew just 1.3 million viewers as fans of Jeremy Clarkson switched off



Top Gear ratings disaster: 4m viewers switch off after Jeremy Clarkson replaced - Telegraph

So the viewers aren't about the cars then!

How do they know how many people watched it?

^Same cars, same viewers, same boring shit show...whats new about the BBC? Nothing. soft pieces on ultra liberal topics and more about royalty than you ever wanted to know or hear. Next up Elton John and the heard from lower homoexssex righteously dissing someone's T-shirt Empire...then on to the most interesting aspects of placing the dot on the Indians forehead...yup true news.

The BBC certainly knows how to beat a dead horse....Tedious twats they are.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Top Gear ratings disaster: 4m viewers switch off after Jeremy Clarkson replaced

Top Gear's replacement in the schedules, a repeat of a Red Arrows documentary, drew just 1.3 million viewers as fans of Jeremy Clarkson switched off

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

So the viewers aren't about the cars then!

If you actually put your mind to it you'll realise (well, hopefully) that is just the spin that the telegraph is putting on things.

Let's try it one more time...

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Top Gear ratings disaster: 4m viewers switch off after Jeremy Clarkson replaced

Top Gear's replacement in the schedules, a repeat of a Red Arrows documentary, drew just 1.3 million viewers as fans of Jeremy Clarkson switched off

Hope that helps.

^ That is Madness and indeed one for the Bodysnatchers, what with the Tears of a Clown from the International Jet Set we have the Too Experienced Three Minute Hero..

Common sense and justice prevails albeit slowly...

Top Gear cleared over use of word ‘pikey’



The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint about the use of the word “pikey” in an episode of Top Gear in February last year.

In what represents the latest ruling on Top Gear’s political correctness, the Trust found that the BBC2 show used the term to mean “cheap”, rather than as a slur against the gypsy community.

The word appeared in a 2 February edition of the motoring programme, where the presenters compared hatchback cars from the 1980s with their modern equivalents.

During track tests, Richard Hammond’s choice of a Vauxhall Nova was ridiculed and Jeremy Clarkson was seen erecting a placard at the start line bearing the words “Pikey’s Peak”.

The Trust admitted that the term has the “potential to be deeply offensive” to travellers, but said it was not used as a reference to this community on Top Gear. “The [editorial standards] committee did not agree that the word was used as a term of racist or ethnic abuse,” it said.

The Trust added that it had told producers to be mindful of “the potential for offence” the word “pikey” can cause and advised exercising “extreme care and sensitivity when employing it in programming”.

The ruling comes as the investigation into Clarkson’s “fracas” with a Top Gear producer begins this week. The process is being overseen by BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie.Oh eek

Top Gear cleared over use of word ?pikey? | News | Broadcast

Originally Posted by Neverna

Apparently Clarkson had just spent 2 hours in the pub. The other staff had gone to bed but Tymon waited up for him, only to be abused and attacked by Clarkson. Clarkson is an ape and should be caged.

I don't really follow every quirk in the story...he's a huge hit in terms of ratings apparently and therefore knows how to whip up controversy. I glean the occasional tit bit of info if i'm (half) awake and listening to bbc world service during the night. He got his arse handed to him in Argentina and now he's taking it out on some waiter. Maybe he's a tough guy in the same mold as Russell Crowe who flung his cell phone at a hotel clerk and ended up writing him a cheque for 10k. If he's the BBC version of Charlie Sheen maybe it's time to write HIM a cheque and get shot of him...

Jeremy Clarkson has instructed lawyers to demand an immediate retraction from the BBC after a senior employee compared him to Jimmy Savile, it has emerged.

The Top Gear host is said to be furious about the "defamatory" smear and is determined to identity the executive behind it.

His friends told the Daily Mail that he believes it was a source connected to the office of former Labour minister James Purnell, now the BBC's £295,000-a-year head of strategy.

The allegations were published in the Mail on Sunday, which quoted a BBC chief "directly involved in the fallout" surrounding Clarkson's suspension following his row with Oisin Tymon, a Top Gear producer, at a North Yorkshire hotel.

The source said that politicians – including the Prime Minister – were turning a blind eye to Clarkson's bad behaviour, in the same way as people once did with Savile, the now notorious paedophile.

"If you look at what David Cameron says or what (former culture and media Secretary) Maria Miller says and you swap Clarkson for Savile, you get this: David Cameron is effectively saying that Savile's a real talent, Maria Miller saying Savile will be Savile," the source was quoted as saying.

Mr Cameron, who is a close friend of Clarkson, has publicly defended the star, saying his children would be heartbroken if Top Gear was taken off air.

A BBC spokesman said: "To suggest that James Purnell is involved is categorically untrue and ridiculous."

Sources have reportedly tried to pin the blame on another well-known senior executive.

Yesterday, the BBC's director-general Lord Hall, insisted that the BBC still needs to determine the facts about Clarkson's 'fracas' before making any decisions about his future.

"The most important thing ... is to gather the facts around you and not listen to all the speculation," he said when asked whether Clarkson would lose his job.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that the outspoken star could be back on screen in May, when he has been booked to host satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You.

The BBC is holding an internal investigation into Clarkson's "fracas" with Tymon this week and is expected to announce its decision within days.

Although the television show has been taken off air, Clarkson and his co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May are said to be exploring ways in which they can go ahead with a number of upcoming Top Gear Live arena shows and are determined not to disappoint fans who have paid up to £95 for a ticket.

Jeremy Clarkson 'instructs lawyers' over Jimmy Savile smear - Telegraph

Originally Posted by Necron99

His friends told the Daily Mail that he believes it was a source connected to the office of former Labour minister James Purnell, now the BBC's £295,000-a-year head of strategy.

This is the type of shit that makes people angry, a nobody in the last Labour government with no qualifications for the job, doesn't stand for re election and just manages to walk into a £295k a year job that we all have to pay for via the £145 yearly TV licence fee.

Absolutely BB, one of the few times I support you, unreservedly.

This clapped out, deadbeat no- hoper, consigned to the trash heap of political oblivion secures a job through cronyism which has no function whatsoever - just what the fuck does an unqualified sack for food and filler of pisspots actually do in his role of Head of Strategy which could not be done by all the countless other " Heads " who in the final analysis answer to Parliamemt for all their strategic needs.

They should decimate the entire BBC management and hang their corpses from Marble Arch. Useless fuckers.

see where your money is going here :
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Originally Posted by buriramboy

we all have to pay for via the £145 yearly TV licence fee.

Is the government forcing you to own a television?

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by buriramboy

we all have to pay for via the £145 yearly TV licence fee.

Is the government forcing you to own a television?

No but they force me to pay the licence fee even though I rarely watch anything on the BBC and would have no issue with never watching it again. The BBC should be made to stand on its own feet like everyone else and raise its revenue through advertising, why should we all be forced on threat of jail to pay for the totally unjustified over inflated salaries and pensions of thousands of employees. Don't go to jail or get a criminal record for not paying your gas, electric or water bill in the UK but you do for not paying for a TV licence.