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Jeremy Clarkson suspended
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Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear suspended apparently.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31824040
The BBC has suspended Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson "following a fracas" with a producer.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31824040
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Suspended due to a ''fracas with a producer''.
Can't wait to hear what this "fracas" was.
No 'maybe' about it ......... fracas is a sedate word for it!!
BBC Press Office have confirmed it.
Apparently it was part of the BBC statement on the incident.
The BBC2 show will not be broadcast this Sunday whilst the BBC investigates the allegation.
Clarkson was already on a final warning from the BBC following a string of accusations of racism.
The BBC said: “Following a fracas with a BBC producer Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended pending an investigation. No one else has been suspended. Top Gear will not be broadcast this Sunday. The BBC will be making no further comment at this time.”
Top Gear is a huge cash-cow for BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial wing. It is the world’s most widely watched factual television programme according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Last year Danny Cohen, the BBC's director of television, ordered a sweeping internal investigation into Top Gear over concerns about racism and offensive gaffes on the show.
The review of the show's culture and practices follows the presenter Jeremy Clarkson being given a final warning over his behaviour on the show.
It is understood that workers on the show have been asked if they think it is racist. The investigation has also explored whether a culture existed where people were afraid to speak out. Clarkson, the executive producer, Andy Wilman, and presenters James May and Richard Hammond are among the many interviewed, it is understood.
Top Gear bosses feared the BBC would axe the show after Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May fled Argentina amid threats from locals who believed a number plate they used was a joke about the country's defeat in the 1982 Falklands War.
The fall-out forced them to rein in their more outlandish ideas, which is being blamed for a drop in ratings.
Clarkson made more than £14million from Top Gear in 2012 after a BBC move to take full control of the hit series' production company. BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, bought out the controlling stake in Bedder 6, a firm formed in partnership with Clarkson to exploit the show globally.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-top-gear-presenter-suspended-by-the-bbc-10098866.html
Are you suggesting that there are Twitter users who don't wait to hear the facts before "going off on one"? ;-)
Does anyone think the BBC is deliberately imploding?
Presumably "a producer" is suspended, too?
Poldark!!
I would never suggest such a thing
As predicted, they are off on one. Clarkson is now trending and the jackals ore out of their boxes.