After the surprise announcement earlier today that Jeremy Clarkson had been suspended from Top Gear for an unspecified "fracas" with a producer, more details have made it to the U.K. press: According to Radio Times, the host was suspended after throwing a punch at a BBC producer. The report also says that the final two episodes of this season of the show have been cancelled.
The Radio Times report states that, while the incident occurred last week, it was only reported to the BBC yesterday, prompting today's action against Clarkson. Initially, the BBC announced that the upcoming episode of Top Gear would not air on March 15 as scheduled, but Radio Times says the final two episodes of season 22, scheduled for March 22 and 29, have also been cancelled. The BBC had not updated its statement at the time of this writing.
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This is just the latest in a long string of events for which Clarkson has landed in increasingly hot water, including a situation where the Top Gear presenters were run out of town by angry Argentinians, as well as incidents where Clarkson was filmed allegedly uttering racist epithets once on air and once in an outtake.
Despite the ongoing drama, Clarkson and his colleagues seem to be making light of it all (Update: Clarkson deleted his tweet; we've included a screencap):
No Top Gear this weekend, apparently. How about 633 Squadron instead? @JeremyClarkson @RichardHammond
— James May (@MrJamesMay) March 10, 2015
No, surely, Last of the Summer Wine; no one will notice the difference. Job done. @MrJamesMay @JeremyClarkson — Richard Hammond (@RichardHammond) March 10, 2015
This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com.
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