Jeremy was suspended and then later fired by the BBC after a “fracas” that saw him punching Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
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“What is more fascinating is that he went for what he went for, considering what had gone on before”, Chris told GQ magazine.
During his reign as host of the show Clarkson became renowned for his outspoken and abrasive behaviour which often made headlines in the global media.
During the talk, Jeremy also couldn’t resist revisiting the row with Argentina after being attacked while filming in the country for “Top Gear”, when he was accused of driving a auto displaying offensive number plates referencing the Falklands War. “That’s problematic for them, because he’s a superstar of new journalism now, and you don’t want to be losing too many people like that because I’m sure he brings an audience with him”. But he is one of my heroes.
I never watched the old Top Gear, because my right temple still has the scar from where Clarkson walloped me (at the 2004 British Press Awards) and whenever he comes on screen, my temple twitches.
And Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc are even by the seaside in Blackpool, as if that wasn’t summery enough for you. He is amusing. He deconstructs things really well.
Racing driver Sabine Schmitz, motoring journalist Rory Reid and YouTuber Chris Harris are also set to feature as presenters.
The new series of Top Gear is expected to start on BBC2 at the end of May.
“Political correctness is tiresome”. I trudged all the way over the Broadcasting House and he said, “I understand you have a new dog and you have called it Didier Dogba”.
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Clarkson went on to say: “You do think, ‘How do they operate these people?” According to The Daily Mail, ringleader Chris Evans (not that one) and Matt LeBlanc have locked horns over the Cenotaph incident, which was led by LeBlanc, because Evans believes that it has hurt the show’s look to be so disrespectful. “I’ve got no time for it”.
