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It was after a long tirade and a lost temper.
The producer sole job is to keep the stars happy, so it's probable this was the eruption of a long line of problems. Unfortunately, with Clarkson being so polarizing we will never really know.
I was in the UK for the last 3 weeks and followed the story there, it was quite educational on the polarization - politically between liberal and conservative and sexist between male and female, with most women hating him.
But diddle little kids for over 40 years, and it’s perfectly Okey-Dokey with the Beeb.
I heard he yelled for 20 minutes and then he got physical. As far as the sole job of a producer, it sound like this guy is happiest when he is flying off the handle about something. Maybe the producer got him insulting cold cuts to release the pressure about something else.
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