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Jeremy Clarkson 'to be sacked TODAY' after BBC probe finds he launched '30-second attack' [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 25, 2015 | Martin Robinson, Emma Glanfield, and Corey Charlton

Posted on 03/25/2015 6:53:15 AM PDT by C19fan

Jeremy Clarkson said today he has not 'heard a thing' from the BBC despite claims bosses have already decided to sack him. The corporation's internal investigation has reportedly concluded the star, 54, launched a 30-second physical attack on a Top Gear producer during their steak dinner 'fracas'. Clarkson was suspended two weeks ago for allegedly punching Oisin Tymon in the face when he was offered a plate of cold cuts instead of steak and chips after a long day of filming. Sources have said that the BBC allegedly found Clarkson spent 20 minutes verbally abusing the producer in a luxury North Yorkshire hotel before launching a 30-second physical assault. But Mr Clarkson tweeted today: 'Just to keep everyone up to date, I haven't heard a thing', despite speculation that Lord Hall, the Director General of the BBC, will today announce that he has been fired.

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KEYWORDS: cars; clarkson; gear; top
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A rival network will hire Mr. Clarkson one minute after he is canned by the BBC. Why not bring him across the pond?
1 posted on 03/25/2015 6:53:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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Clarkson spent 20 minutes verbally abusing

I'd pay good money to have heard that...

2 posted on 03/25/2015 6:56:48 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: C19fan

I love the show. However he is constantly deriding the US and our customs. One wonders if he could stand working in ,”The Colonies.”. We are so lowbrow and all.


3 posted on 03/25/2015 6:58:49 AM PDT by smaug6 (We can't afford to be innocent!! Stand up and face the enemy.)
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BBC kept known pedophiles on air for decades..but they’re cracking down on temper-tantrums. Jolly good show, eh?


4 posted on 03/25/2015 7:02:53 AM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: smaug6

Pair him with Jesse James...JJ is trying to reinvent himself, post Sandra Bullock..


5 posted on 03/25/2015 7:03:41 AM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: C19fan

Supposedly, Capt. Slow and the Hamster have stated that they would not do the show without Jezza.


6 posted on 03/25/2015 7:04:08 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; All
Clarkson spent 20 minutes verbally abusing..
I'd pay good money to have heard that...

OH! Same here, If they bring it across "the pond", I shall watch IT!...


7 posted on 03/25/2015 7:04:40 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass
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Bring all of it here.


8 posted on 03/25/2015 7:05:12 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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I gotta say I don’t blame him for being pissed. Work all day long and all they could get for dinner was cold cuts. Cmon this guy deserves better than that.


9 posted on 03/25/2015 7:05:37 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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WTF is Jeremy Clarkson?


10 posted on 03/25/2015 7:05:47 AM PDT by deweyfrank
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My thoughts exactly. He’s generally very entertaining. My favorite line of his I heard at least 10 years ago, when he reviewing some completely sumptuous over the top Bentley or Aston-Martin sports car: “The engine sounds like Barry White chewing on wasps”.


11 posted on 03/25/2015 7:06:58 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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He’s one of 3 hosts on the Brit show Top Gear. Very irreverent humor and non PC. All about cars and doing stupid things like racing reasonably priced cars through london. Or taking beat up used cars through the african countryside to find the source of the nile.

Lots of fast cars and goofy humor.


12 posted on 03/25/2015 7:10:01 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: deweyfrank

I think he was the first winner of American Idle (sp?).


13 posted on 03/25/2015 7:10:19 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: deweyfrank

Does a BBC show aired on BBC America called “Top Gear”. Very popular with car aficionados.


14 posted on 03/25/2015 7:10:22 AM PDT by C19fan
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Luv the more historic shows. They bashed a 60s British car that was made by a state owned car company. They got in a lot of shots on communism and socialism.


15 posted on 03/25/2015 7:11:59 AM PDT by C19fan
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"WTF is Jeremy Clarkson?"
look @ reply #7..that's him.
He was "Pissed" when he was served cold-cuts,
while "others/producers/actors" got Steak.

16 posted on 03/25/2015 7:12:57 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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He derides everything. British humor.


17 posted on 03/25/2015 7:13:16 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Yeah, that was their British Leyland show in which they tested three BL cars from the 1970s to determine if any of them were at all decent.


18 posted on 03/25/2015 7:16:13 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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I think he was the first winner of American Idle.

Didn’t he win singing the Monkee’s song, Take the Last Train to Clarkson?


19 posted on 03/25/2015 7:17:31 AM PDT by Leep (Ronney/McCain 2016!)
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I back Clarkson. He beat Piers Morgan down.


20 posted on 03/25/2015 7:17:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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