JEREMY Clarkson has revealed he is pleased his time as host of Top Gear came
to an end before it got “tired and boring”.
The TV presenter was sacked from the show last March after he physically
attacked producer Oisin Tymon after being told there was no hot food left at
the end of a day’s filming.
But he said he isn’t unhappy with the way things worked out as he thinks the
show would have run its course.
Speaking at a talk in London tonight, he said: “To be honest, I think we would
have stayed at the BBC and then the show would have got tired and boring,
eventually we would have piloted it into a hillside and that would have been
the end.
“At the time it was all tragic but now we’ve been forced to reinvent
ourselves and we’re online, where you can do anything, like f *** a horse,
it’s forced all of us to actually concentrate on starting again.
“Now we’re looking at losing Top Gear as a fantastic thing to happen.”
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But he denied he had tried to “scupper” new host Chris Evans’s attempts to
revive the show because he’d be out of pocket.
He said: “What’s very entertaining is that Chris Evans is having a very
hard time at the moment as he attempts to put Top Gear back together again.
“It’s been suggested that I am behind it, that I am trying to scupper
him. But I discovered the other day that every time it gets recommissioned I
get paid, so that’s a curious bit of BBC contract but I wish them all the
very best.”
After Clarkson’s sacking, his co-hosts James May and Richard Hammons quit the
show in solidarity. The three of them are now producing a new motoring show
for Amazon – but have yet to come up with a name, and they only have a week
to decide.
He added: “We’ve got seven days to come up with a name – we do a special
every year for Christmas and we go to film that soon, so we have to have a
name and register it by then.
“It’s going to end up being called Dingleberries or something like that.”