Clarkson Suspended by BBC

[Craig@AUDI]

Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

Is the rock clean yet? (more banter)

[b0son]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

Give me Fifth Gear any day

You'll have to be content with re-runs of that. It's pretty much dead.

[Intacoola]

Originally Posted by b0son

Like when he said a car with more downforce was going to be a handful to drive???

Typical Clarkson. Can talk and drive even with his foot in his mouth !

[Crazy Dazz]

I didn't mind 5th gear, until I caught Tiff's segment on tyres...

Now I know what Jezza means when he does his nasal voice, and talks about "anoraks".

[Express]

Top Gear loses even more viewers after 'diabolical' debut
7 June, 2016


London: The BBC has defended Top Gear's performance despite viewing figures plummeting in the show's second outing.

Overnight ratings show that the latest instalment of the BBC Two motoring programme drew 2.8 million viewers in the UK, losing around a third of the 4.4 million who watched its relaunch on May 29.

The audience grew throughout the episode, peaking at 3.3 million, but failed to match the ratings of Antiques Roadshow and Soccer Aid.

But consolidated figures - which take into account people who have recorded the show and watched it later - have now pushed ratings for the first episode over the six million mark.

The 6.42 million people who tuned in to Chris Evans' debut is higher than the number of people who watched the first episode of the last three series featuring Jeremy Clarkson.

Alan Tyler, acting controller of BBC Entertainment Commissioning, said the new presenting team, including Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc, "brilliantly led BBC Two's biggest show of the day, by some margin".

Evans has also been quick to defend the revamped series, insisting that overnight ratings are not important.

The series has been heavily criticised since it returned with Evans, 50, and former Friends actor LeBlanc, 48, at the wheel.

Viewers have blasted it on social media, with many of the comments referring to Evans' "shouty" hosting style.

After the first instalment Evans said in a series of posts on Twitter that he was satisfied with how the series opener went.

He wrote: "The new Top Gear is a hit. Officially. 23% audience share. 12% more than the opening episode of the last series. These are the facts."

The star's next post said: "Top Gear audience grew throughout the hour. Fact. Won its slot. Fact. Still number one on iPlayer. Fact. These are the facts folks."

He said in a third tweet: "Top Gear series 1 episode 23, catch it again tonight 7pm BBC2. That's when it's on. Fact."

The series is the first after Clarkson was sacked for an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack" on a producer.

Clarkson and his former co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond will be back with a new Amazon Prime motoring show called The Grand Tour, which will make its debut on the streaming service later this year.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...07-gpd2wz.html

[Dave_Obsession]

Originally Posted by b0son

Like when he said a car with more downforce was going to be a handful to drive???

....cos that Viper looks like it's so easy to drive when you're wringing its neck...

[Express]

Top Gear host Chris Evans to take less prominent role


14 June, 2016




Top Gear has experienced a rough ride under Chris Evans' stewardship. Photo: BBC Worldwide


Chris Evans is to take a less prominent role at the helm of Top Gear, after viewing figures for the newly revamped motoring show slumped to a new low.

The third episode of Top Gear, the first to feature motoring journalists Rory Reid and Chris Harris, received positive reviews, but was watched by a live audience of just 2.37 million viewers, down nearly half a million on the previous week.



Rory Reid won his Top Gear slot testing the new Ford Focus RS. Photo: Top Gear


The programme, which recorded the second-lowest audience figures since Jeremy Clarkson revived the motoring show, in 2002, received plaudits from viewers for the performances of Reid and Harris, who usually host the online spin-off show, Extra Gear.



Top Gear: Chris Harris with Ferrari's F12 TDF. Photo: Top Gear


Reid, who won his slot on the show via a public audition, was shown testing the new Ford Focus RS, while Harris, who has a cult following on YouTube, featured in a film involving Ferrari's F12 TDF.

While Evans and Matt LeBlanc will continue to anchor the studio recording, it is understood that pre-recorded material featuring both of the lesser known presenters will feature more prominently in the rest of the series. Reid wrote on Twitter yesterday: "We are on the main show every Sunday now."



Hosts Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc lacked chemisty and looked like they were on 'a bad Tinder date,' according to some critics. Photo: BBC


The new incarnation of Top Gear has experienced a rough ride under Evans's stewardship, despite its opening episode recording a solid audience of 6.4 million viewers, including catch-up viewing.

Audience appreciation figures leaked to The Telegraph showed that Evans's debut episode was rated by viewers as the worst quality show on terrestrial television on the weekend that it aired, with an appreciation index (AI) score of just 60 out of 100, compared to an average of around 82 for a BBC Two programme.

The second episode is understood to have received a similarly low AI score, of 68, and recorded a live audience of 2.8 million, which yesterday had improved to 4.1 million, including catch-up viewing.

Most impartial observers agree that the programme has improved over the opening weeks, with Evans toning down his hyperactive enthusiasm.

The audience for Sunday's third episode will rise from 2.37 million, once catch-up viewing is taken into account, but Top Gear has only recorded lower overnight figures on one occasion during the Clarkson era. An episode that aired in June 2003 was watched live by 2.36 million viewers, just 9000 fewer than this week's programme.

Sunday night's show suffered from going out at the same time as Germany's opening game in Euro 2016, which aired on BBC One.

Figures from overnights.tv, the ratings agency, showed that the motoring programme lost 175,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 34, compared to the previous week.

ITV also chose to air popular soap Coronation Street in an overlapping slot, which led to Top Gear losing more than a quarter of a million viewers over the age of 55, compared to the previous week's audience.

BBC executives are resigned to the fact that the motoring show's audience is unlikely to improve over the three remaining episodes in the series.

The programme will go up against Euro 2016 football each week, which eats into Top Gear's young, male audience.

If England finish third in their group, and win their second round game, they could play in the quarter finals of the competition at the same time as the final episode of the current Top Gear series, on July 3.

The Telegraph, London

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...14-gpipwe.html

[castellan]

Originally Posted by Sioso

Good to see no one started a new thread for the New Top Gear - it doesn't deserve one.
I watched a bit of it last night and had to turn it off - it was painful to watch.
I figured it was a show about cars so I'll watch it regardless but I just couldn't do it.
How Chris Evans is so popular baffles me.
I then tried watching Extra Gear afterwards as I like Chris Harris's youtube clips but I couldn't watch that either.
If they revamped the whole show it might have better but trying to copy the old format with lame jokes was a complete disaster.
I actually felt sorry for the people in the studio, I would have been embarrassed to be in the crowd.
I give it 0.5 out of 10.

The problem was that Clarkson was always just trying to cover a more manly persona to go with the rightfully position of the top payed man as he was and all, but the Political Correct lynching mob in it's great stupendous pride and derelict prejudice set out to destroy the man and the show.

The greatness in the show was it was a type of comedy show more than anything, but I guess a lot of people think it's more of a fair dinkum car testing show, it's nothing of the sort at all, but just a fictitious pommy type of comedy show.
Such is the greatness of the pomes in comedy, they are the best in what they do.
Truly what's the good of a pommy bastard if he is not funny, I tell you !

Clarkson should sue that mob of bastard PC Nazi clowns for what they really are just a mob of 3ed rate bunch of miserable boring good for nothing dictating great twats the world have ever endured. ****** like that only bring about mundane dim whits in the world that will never create anything of greatness in there miserable sod lives.

Tell me who is going to watch some gelded Political Correct show, that crap would be surely truly as boring as watching paint dry.
The same bunch of clown destroyed Benny Hill and all.

[Seasoned One]

Originally Posted by castellan

The problem was that Clarkson was always just trying to cover a more manly persona to go with the rightfully position of the top payed man as he was and all, but the Political Correct lynching mob in it's great stupendous pride and derelict prejudice set out to destroy the man and the show.

The greatness in the show was it was a type of comedy show more than anything, but I guess a lot of people think it's more of a fair dinkum car testing show, it's nothing of the sort at all, but just a fictitious pommy type of comedy show.
Such is the greatness of the pomes in comedy, they are the best in what they do.
Truly what's the good of a pommy bastard if he is not funny, I tell you !

Clarkson should sue that mob of bastard PC Nazi clowns for what they really are just a mob of 3ed rate bunch of miserable boring good for nothing dictating great twats the world have ever endured. ****** like that only bring about mundane dim whits in the world that will never create anything of greatness in there miserable sod lives.

Tell me who is going to watch some gelded Political Correct show, that crap would be surely truly as boring as watching paint dry.
The same bunch of clown destroyed Benny Hill and all.

here here!

[Express]

Top Gear USA cancelled by History Channel as the BBC franchise's woes continue

29 June, 2016

Ebony Bowden
Entertainment reporter



With all the brouhaha surrounding BBC's Top Gear, was anyone bothering to pay attention to the United States' version?

After a six season run, BBC and Top Gear USA co-host Rutledge Wood announced on Wednesday the show had been cancelled by the History Channel.



Top Gear USA has been cancelled, the BBC confirmed. Photo: Kim Cook/BBC


In a lengthy Facebook post, Wood confirmed this week's episode was the last but said he remained hopeful Top Gear USA would find a new home.

"It's been an amazing ride for sure, and although I don't think the show is done, it appears that it's done with our friends at History."

The news is yet another blow to the struggling franchise which has seen United Kingdom audiences plummet with the introduction of new hosts Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc.



Top Gear USA host Rutledge Wood announces the end of the show on Facebook. Photo: Facebook


Evans and LeBlanc have failed to build the same rapport as previous hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, who will shortly launch their Amazon motoring show, The Grand Tour.

Top Gear USA struggled to find an audience when it first went to air in 2011, with critics giving it mixed reviews. BBC shopped around the American export for more than six years before History finally picked it up.

A.V. Club's Phil Dyess-Nugent accused hosts comedian Adam Ferrera, racing analyst Rutledge Wood and professional racing driver Tanner Foust of lacking the same enthusiasm as Clarkson, Hammond and May.



The new-look Top Gear met with a cool reception but a few minor tweaks could soon restore its popularity.


"The graphics, music, and editing all scream Top Gear, but much of the feel of the show has been imported from a 1980s beer commercial," he wrote.

"It must be frustrating for the people who work on a show like this to know that people are comparing them to the original, but the US version has yet to establish enough of an identity of its own to make the comparison irrelevant."

Many aspects of the show were borrowed from the UK version, including a Stig character and fast laps. The New York Times' Mike Hale accused it of slavishly following the original.



Meanwhile, Top Gear's old hosts are gearing up for their new Amazon show.


Distraught fans have still lamented Top Gear USA's cancellation, flooding Wood's post with comments spurring the hosts to continue.

One fan described the news as "terrible". "I certainly hope that another network picks up the show, it's truly entertaining and educational, and I love the brotherly love and banter that the three of you have."

While the BBC said it had already begun "exploring new opportunities", the network would also be concerned about getting its house in order back home.



Top Gear USA host Rutledge Wood thanks fans for their outpouring of support on Facebook. Photo: Facebook


Ratings for the relaunched Top Gear dropped to an all-time low by the third episode, while a report in the UK Telegraph alleges Matt LeBlanc has threatened to quit unless the BBC drops Chris Evans.

Evans, 50, has been given a less prominent presenting role but critics have already called for him to go, saying they were fed-up with his "seemingly out of control" ego.

Stuff's Noel Burland said he'd given the new format a chance but described Evans as "the last straw".

"Remove Chris Evans and I think we'll see a show that might still be watchable although it will clearly play second fiddle to The Grand Tour when that is released."

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...29-gpudah.html

[Trump]

I quite liked the US Top Gear, simply because it wasn't a clone of the original.

[blue sleeper]

I must admit I quite like Matt Le Blanc in this role and the others. But damn Chris Evans sucks! I've been trying to think of who could replace Evans, my first choice would be Jenson Button he has the charisma and the skills obviously but that's assuming he doesn't get a F1 contract next year or wherever else.

My left of field choice though is Eric Bana, he can drive well, ride well and he's damn funny, not sure the Brits would like two foreigners hosting though, Brexit and all....

[Dauphin]

I don't know if they're into cars or not, but I'd like to see either UK funny actors Richard Ayoade or Matt Berry replace him.

[Mr Brooksy]

I've watched 4 episodes now and honestly I can say that there is a chance that Top Gear can emerge out from behind the Clarkson era as a worth while motoring show. With a few exceptions, most notably kicking Chris Evans to the curb. The guy is just the wrong fit (at the very least the persona he has chosen to portray is the wrong fit) for the show altogether, there is a big difference between enthusiasms and over excitement and Evans is the perfect example of that difference. I wonder if they actually have the right guy already signed on the show to take the lead spot in Chris Harris? I get the feeling that he and Matt LeBlanc could be a good fit, Harris seems to be far more interested in taking about the car and having fun with it then trying to manufacture energy and excitement, and LeBlanc has already been the surprise in my opinion with the few side remarks he has made that were a breathe of fresh (and decent volume) air.

I am kind of interested to see how Eddie Jordan goes, I was pleasantly surprised by his two showings so far. A bit like James May in his early role, but knowing EJ from F1 (the rocker as well as rambler) kind of personality might really make a big impact on the show.

I think those tweaks could make a huge differences to the direction of the show. But one thing is certain in my mind, Evans needs to quiet down and lose the obvious ego, or go completely (personal preference).

Oh and please lose the star in a reasonably priced car knock off. I've not been able to stomach the whole segment 4 times in a row. It's just rubbish. Do it without the "oh you're so cool. Oh no you are. No really you're way cooler than me and let me tell you why" guests introduction rubbish. And the comparing guests cars bit... and Chris Evans... yeah the whole thing.

Top Gear still has a chance, with its new direction. I just want to see them get back to basics somewhat and lose the forced nature of too many segments and presenting styles.

[naddis01]

Any idea when Top Gear will be shown on free to air TV? Otherwise where else can I see it?

[csv8]

Matt Le Blanc planning to quit unless Chris Evans goes..

Top Gear is suffering its own version of the Labour crisis (or Game of Thrones, take your pick), with Matt LeBlanc reportedly planning to quit as presenter unless host Chris Evans gets the boot.

Sources from the motoring show, formerly led by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, claim that the Friends actor has refused to film further series unless Evans leaves.

Negative reviews and record low ratings have been plaguing the new Top Gear, with much of the criticism aimed at “shouty” Evans.
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“The big question now is who goes and who stays,” a source told the Sun. “The team does not gel at all and the atmosphere between the presenters is decidedly frosty. It’s very much a picture of him - Chris - and them.

“Matt has already indicated that he won’t continue on any further series if Chris remains part of it, and he is far from the only one who isn’t happy.”

The source added that Evans has allegedly “firmly distanced” himself from the team, refusing to “encourage” them and even “pretending to bump his head against a wall in frustration” when formed F1 boss Eddie Jordan struggled to nail his lines." http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7105186.html

[Express]

Top Gear's Chris Evans quits after one series

5 July, 2016

Michael Idato
Entertainment Editor-at-Large, Los Angeles




Top Gear host and British radio funnyman Chris Evans. Photo: topgear.com


The reboot of the hit motoring series Top Gear was more than a year in the making. But after just six episodes the wheels appear to have fallen off, with the show's lead host Chris Evans quitting.

"Stepping down from Top Gear," Evans said in a brief statement released on social media.

"Gave it my best shot but sometimes that's not enough. I feel like my standing aside is the single best thing I can now do to help the cause."

Since the launch of the rebooted series, the ratings have been in freefall.

The show's 23rd season launched in May with 6.42 million viewers in the UK.

Every week since it has posted a dramatic loss, landing at 4.06 million, then 3.44 million, 3.22 million, 2.68 million and finally, for its sixth episode, just 1.9 million.

The BBC later released a statement confirming Evans was leaving the motoring series, but would remain with the broadcaster as a radio host.

"I have never worked with a more committed and driven team than the team I have worked with over the last 12 months," Evans was quoted as saying in the BBC announcement.

"I remain a huge fan of the show, always have been, always will be."

Evans replaced the show's previous host Jeremy Clarkson who was suspended in March, 2015, and later sacked, after a succession of scandals plagued the show.

Clarkson's co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond said they would not return without him, and the show's executive producer Andy Wilman also resigned.

Their departures triggered a major reboot of the series.

The show's three hosts were replaced with six: Evans, American actor Matt LeBlanc, former motorsport boss Eddie Jordan, motoring journalist Chris Harris, race car driver Sabine Schmitz and motoring journalist Rory Reid.

How Evans' departure affects the show's other new hosts remains unclear.

A 24th season of the show is likely, as it is one of the BBC's most powerful revenue earners in terms of international program sales and product licensing.

But the broadcaster has not confirmed if any of the show's five remaining hosts will return for a new season.

The BBC had only commissioned six episodes - cut down from an earlier order of ten - for the show's 23rd season.

All six of those episodes have now aired in the UK.

Speaking to Fairfax Media in Cannes last year where the BBC was launching the reboot, Evans said he had taken the gig with mixed emotions.

"When watched the last show, or what became the last show, which none of us knew, nor did they when they were making it, it was so sad," he said.

"It was like a patient that didn't know it was dying or hadn't been told."

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...05-gpyi2r.html

[EBSXR6]

Rowan Atkinson or Jay Leno are a couple that come to mind.

[arronm]

Probably got bored, couldn't flash his wang at anybody....

[Junkyard-Dog]

Originally Posted by EBSXR6

Rowan Atkinson is a car buff and funny or if the Brits would be prepared to take a gamble on another American Jay Leno

I like watching Jay Leno's garage but imo he rambles on too much to be the head honcho at Top Gear. He just doesn't have the "it" factor that made Clarkson popular, it truly amazes me that he ever made it big in the comedy business to begin with... but that's going off on a tangent. Rowan Atkinson could fit in nicely but I don't think enough people take him seriously because of his background in comedy (Mr. Bean in particular).

Honestly the show is dead. It's just sad that the BBC is trying to milk the name and bring it back. It was bad enough when they made Top Gear US and Top Gear Australia.

[DFB FGXR6]

I actually like the new Top Gear better than the last few seasons of with Clarkson/May/Hammond.

Cars seem to be actually reviewed instead of the endless driving of some old bomb though a third world country challenges.

[aussiblue]

There was reason he stepped down http://jalopnik.com/chris-evans-step...con-1783079430 :

Chris Evans Stepped Down From Top Gear After Police Confirmed Sex Assault Investigation


Patrick George
Yesterday 11:58am

Things have gone from bad to extremely worse for Chris Evans, who announced his resignation from Top Gear earlier today. That resignation came mere hours after London police confirmed Evans is being investigated for a reported sexual assault dating back to the 1990s.


The UK’s Telegraph says London Metropolitan Police confirmed a woman made a report to officers on May 23, days before Top Gear returned to the air, about a “non-recent sexual assault” related to “incidents in Tower Hamlets in the 1990s.”

Evans hosted Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast between 1992 and 1994, with the programme airing live from a cottage in Bow, located within the east London borough.

In a statement, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “An allegation of non-recent sexual assault was made to police on May 23.

“The allegation was made by a woman against a man, and relates to incidents in Tower Hamlets in the 1990s.

“There have been no arrests and no person has been interviewed under caution.”

No other details have been released. But news website Heat Street this year published a series of stories about past allegations made against Evans, including that he exposed himself to staff on the Channel 4 show The Big Breakfast, that he repeatedly groped a female former colleague, and that a Top Gear executive producer stepped down last year after challenging his behavior. Evans has denied these claims and said they were part of a “witch hunt.”

Also from that story, Evans apparently joked about exposing himself:

In an interview with the Sunday Times in 2005, Evans admitted his penchant for exposing himself at work.

The newspaper reported that Evans “frequently exposed himself at the offices of Ginger Media Group, which owned Virgin Radio and television shows such as TFI Friday. He would interrupt meetings by standing up to pull down his tracksuit bottoms to reveal that he was sexually aroused.”

At the time, Evans told the newspaper: “If you get your willy out, it’s the funniest thing in the world. Everybody laughs, everyone of our generation. I wouldn’t do it in front of my mum, for example. Girls love it; boys -‘Oh, I can’t believe you did that’. It also takes the night to a new level. I actually haven’t done it for a while. But I will do it again.”

It’s not immediately clear whether these allegations and the investigation led to Evans’ departure from the BBC car show, but it’s hard to imagine the network wanting to keep him around amid all of that.

Also http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/...4baaf332ade327

TOP Gear host Chris Evans is to become the most high-profile BBC star to be quizzed by police over historical sex assault allegations.

Met officers will speak to the multi-millionaire star, 50, in the coming days after a complaint from a former work colleague, website Heat Street reports.

BBC bosses now face a dilemma over whether Evans, 50, continues on his Radio 2 breakfast show, according to The Sun.

A BBC spokeswoman declined to comment, while Evans’s representatives were unavailable to comment.


The probe comes after a woman who worked with Evans in the 1990s told The Sun on Sunday earlier this year how the star flashed her almost every day for two years. She said he exposed himself to people who did not do what he wanted.

“He might have thought what he was doing was amusing, but like a lot of bullies he cloaked it in a joke,” she said.

“Bullies make out that you’re not being fun if you’re not being part of that joke. I have no idea if he was getting some gratification out of this, but he used to get his ***** out every time I saw him.

“He’d either just get it out, or he’d walk into a room naked. Sometimes it was erect, sometimes it wasn’t. I know other people experience the same thing at work but this was quite extreme because of the relentlessness of it, almost every day for two years.”


Speaking in May, she claimed he grabbed her breasts and bullied her after she rejected his advances.

She claimed her complaints were ignored and the ordeal left her traumatised and on anti- depressants. She insisted she was speaking out to protect others at risk of being harassed by him.

The woman says she made a statement about Evans to a lawyer five years ago.

And she told of her shock when BBC chiefs signed Evans to front Top Gear, claiming they knew of his past behaviour.

Evans, said to have amassed a £55 million ($97 million) fortune, will appear in the BBC2 show’s finale on Sunday night.

He and co-star Matt LeBlanc, who fell out during filming, missed the show’s wrap party in central London’s Soho last week.

The BBC is considering the show’s future after viewing figures fell below three million.

Evans’s stint has also been dogged by complaints from ex-colleagues about his alleged bullying.

They included the husband of Top Gear executive Lisa Clark who quit after five months amid claims Evans was a control freak.

Dan McGrath, who worked on the star’s BBC radio show, took to Facebook to blast his “sh***y” behaviour.

Evans has admitted in the past that he would expose himself to staff, calling it “the funniest thing in the world”.

BBC stars found guilty of sex assault claims in the wake of Jimmy Savile include Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall and Chris Denning.

[ltd]

So glad he's gone.
The ultimate traitor, tells the world he won't replace Clarkson, then replaces Clarkson.
Tells the world he is reinventing Top Gear, then copies the old format.
Is told by the world to stop being so shouty, gets on TV and says he's going to be more shouty.
Takes a dig at Clarkson in the first episode by joking about the catering referencing Clarkson smacking the producer as though he's morally superior, is later accused and stands down over sexual assault allegations.
The world hates Chris Evans, and for good reasons.

[Trump]

Originally Posted by ltd

So glad he's gone.
The ultimate traitor, tells the world he won't replace Clarkson, then replaces Clarkson.
Tells the world he is reinventing Top Gear, then copies the old format.
Is told by the world to stop being so shouty, gets on TV and says he's going to be more shouty.
Takes a dig at Clarkson in the first episode by joking about the catering referencing Clarkson smacking the producer as though he's morally superior, is later accused and stands down over sexual assault allegations.
The world hates Chris Evans, and for good reasons.

The BBC would have done better if they wound up Top Gear, going out with a bang and not a whimper as it was...

[Bushbasher]

I'd give it one more chance with Chris Evans gone and Chris Harris up front along with Matt Le Blanc taking the lead together with the others coming front and centre from time to time to present their own segments. More like an ensemble rather than a main front man spruker and the rest line astern as it seems to be now.

[GTP-RPD]

They should have got Jerry Seinfeld.....

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by aussiblue

There was reason he stepped down http://jalopnik.com/chris-evans-step...con-1783079430 :




Also http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/...4baaf332ade327

How the hell could he get away with that. The BBC must be rotten to the core. Jimmy Saville was bad enough, but seems like if you are a star there you could do whatever the hell you wanted with no ramifications. Beyond belief

[Junkyard-Dog]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

How the hell could he get away with that. The BBC must be rotten to the core. Jimmy Saville was bad enough, but seems like if you are a star there you could do whatever the hell you wanted with no ramifications. Beyond belief

How did Bill Cosby get away with it for so long?

a: Nobody wants to step on the talent's toes.

[Vesper Martini]

The Irony is Clarkson was rude to the Producers, Evans apparently was rude to everyone.

Despite Clarkson's Dorky Appearance, his deep Voice made him pretty Cool and Casual.

I haven't event seen an Evans episode, but he has a high erratic voice - that's on the not cool board.

[EBSXR6]

Jodie Kidd but she already said no.