The current TOP GEAR TV series remaining two episodes will be scrapped and Jeremy Clarkson, now 54, had been suspended after what it called a “fracas”.
While we await more news, lets enjoy some of his other controversial gaffs:
1. Thai ‘Slope’ remark
Clarkson was criticised when he used the word ‘slope’ as an Asian man is seen walking onto a bridge.
Talking to Richard Hammond about the bridge they have just finished building over the River Kwai in Thailand, he said: ‘That is a proud moment – but there’s a slope on it,’ just as the man walks into the shot. The use of the word sparked many complaints. We say: Get a life – it was funny.
2. Racist rhyme
In unseen footage Clarkson was seen trying to choose between two cars while singing a racist children’s nursery rhyme which goes: ‘Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…‘Catch a n***** by his toe.’
3. Falklands number plate scandal
Last October the Top Gear team had to flee from Argentina when locals were outraged by a number plate on a Porsche they were driving. The number plate was H982 FKL which locals claimed was a reference to the 1982 Falklands War.
4. Didier Dogba dog name
Clarkson was accused of ‘casual racism’ when he named his new black pet dog ‘Didier Dogba’ after the former Chelsea footballer.
5. The One Show scandal
Clarkson got more than 31,000 complaints following an appearance on BBC’s One Show in December 2011, when he told presenters Matt Baker and Alex Jones that he thought all the public sector workers who had just taken part in a 24-hour strike should be ‘all shot… I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.’
