Top Gear: The future?

[Cleoriff]

Unless you have been in a news free zone for 24 hrs it wont have gone unnoticed that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended...

Allegedly he punched a producer....

Sundays episode has been shelved along with the remaining two in the Top Gear series..

Clarksons suspension has led to a massive petition for his reinstatement.

Personally, I wonder why so many want him back? Surely this massively popular show can survive without him? (Stands back ready to be panned for that comment )

Maybe this 'hero worship' of Clarkson is a 'man thing'? (apologies if that appears sexist )

I don't particularly like him. I think he arrogantly believes he is invincible....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31828184

[Cleoriff]

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@viridis wrote:
And then she started banging on about the relevance of feminism and i though "any excuse eh love"

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Oh I agree...she spoilt it all with that rant.........As I say I just liked the opening sentence...

[anticpated]

What next on top gear now then? How to accesorise and decorate the layout of your car in this years colours? This madness has got to stop, King Leonidas style.

[Cleoriff]

Jeremy Clarkson has broken his silence over the prospect of getting the sack from the BBC saying: “Well, it’s coming, isn’t it?”

(This was whilst he was at Chelsea watching them lose last night)

[anticpated]

I wonder what reaction he would get if he did,walk into a "Jobcentre".

[Cleoriff]

I don't suppose he gives a damn...No doubt Sky and ITV are drawing up contracts right now.

He won't be out of work for long. (if he does get booted from BBC)

I am sure we would soon have an alternative to Top Gear with him fronting the show...

[jonsie]

His agent will be the busiest person in the UK as we speak....

[Cleoriff]

According to the Daily Mirror today James May and Richard Hammond refused to film without Clarkson.

They were offered the chance to film the remaining episodes so that the BBC could screen the last shows. They said no. It seems it is all of them....or none of them...?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/top-gears-richard-hammond-james-5360997

[MI5]

so it should be, brothers !

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:
so it should be, brothers !

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I can understand you saying that....but surely there are many others who would have watched the show without him? If only to complain that it was useless and make a point to the BBC...

'Brothers in arms' is very commendable.....unless you have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed...

*Lights touchpaper and retires* 

[MI5]

It's not as if any of them is hard up though, is it ?