[brownsfan]

“He was canned by the Beeb for not towing the leftist line and not submitting.”

I thought he was canned for smacking an assistant who brought him the wrong sandwich?

[markomalley]

“I thought he was canned for smacking an assistant who brought him the wrong sandwich?”

That was the excuse. The real reason was that he called a spade a spade too many times and upset the PC management at BBC

[minnesota_bound]

#33 I thought he was canned for smacking an assistant who brought him the wrong sandwich?

It was only a Irishman....
The kitchen at the restaurant was closed and he offered to get sandwiches and a drunken Clarkson hit him.

He and the other guys ended up in a better deal and the current Top Gear hosts are boring plus they work out in a gym.