Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC over 'fracas' with producer

[Pete]

So, he's got his marching orders.

Top Gear will never be the same. I hope he does something similar for another tv company.

[therealjr]

There's a conspiracy theory flying round that Jezza has done this deliberately. He sold his shares in Top Gear back to the BBC sometime ago for a fortune. He's now out of his contract meaning he's free to go and start up 'Top Revs' on Sky 1. Hamster and Captain Slow's contract are nearly up for renewal. What's the betting they don't sign?

[Umpire]

I understand all parties involved have agreed the facts one of which is that he hit the producer.I am sure that if I had done that to a fellow employee at work it would have been instant dismissal.
Why should he be any different?

[simondjuk]

So, he's got his marching orders.

Top Gear will never be the same. I hope he does something similar for another tv company.

Totally agree, no doubt C5 will try and get him on board.

[Big Dave 2]

Why would he have needed to do it deliberately? His contract was coming to an end, he could have simply not signed a new one. If the situation had been reversed and producer hit JC, the producer would have been dismissed without all this agonising. JC brought it on himself and now, it seems, the police are interested - serves him right.

[therealjr]

I think it may have something to do with non-competing clauses.

[Slacker]

I think the only comparison with Savile is that Savile was such as big star that he was seemingly untouchable.
Assaulting a fellow employee both physically and racially is not acceptable so the BBC acted correctly. Finances should not be a consideration in workplace disciplinaries

[Pete]

Assaulting racially? Must have missed that bit. Link?

[Old Cruser]

No one should be so great that they are allowed to get away with unacceptable behaviour no matter how popular they are.
Justice has been served and rightly so.

[Slacker]

Assaulting racially? Must have missed that bit. Link?

As part of an aggressive ran he didn't just call him a 6*%7, he called him an Irish 6*%7. To refer to anyone's nationality when having a go at them is racist

[Slacker]

Got himself a job anyway
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1546935808686937&pnref=story

[Pete]

Oh dear, some of the left are such a bunch of humourless moaners...

I read this today criticising the orangutang:

"Short people. When you've finished using a car, put the f**king seat back, so humans can use it afterwards," he posted on Twitter.

I think that's hilarious, speaking as a man with a 5 foot wife, when I want to use the car I nearly break my spine trying to get in to move the seat back.

He done wrong, he lost his job, end of. Except for the politically correct whiners who'll have few more months bleating about him.

[Big Dave 2]

One of our cars has memory seats - pity it's not the one my O/H is using now that she's driving again so for once, I'm in agreement!

[Fly]

I struggle to get my knees under the steering wheel when a 'shorter than me' person has been in the car 

[Pete]

>>  so for once, I'm in agreement

Pete crawls off to lie down in a darkened room... LOL