{"id":749,"date":"2015-04-01T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2019-05-27T08:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:08:04","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-finally-receives-the-sacking-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/jeremy-clarkson-finally-receives-the-sacking-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson Finally Receives the Sacking Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>BBC releases the investigation report for the \u2018fracasgate\u2019 scandal<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BBC has finally released the investigation report for\u00a0one of the <a title=\"SPeeding brits to be traced\" href=\"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/european-police-to-trace-speeding-brits\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>speeding Brits<\/strong><\/a>, Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s fighting case. BBC has confirmed following Jeremy\u2019s fracas with <a title=\"BBC Top Gear\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Top Gear<\/strong><\/a> producer Oisin Tymon, BBC will not be extending his contract anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The Investigation report was presented by BBC Director General Tony Hall who announced the final decision with a heavy heart.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is with great regret that I have told <a title=\"Jeremy Clarkson\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremyclarkson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jeremy Clarkson<\/strong><\/a> today that the BBC will not be renewing his contract,&#8221; begins the statement. Halls calls Clarkson a huge talent and says that the Top Gear host has made an &#8220;extraordinary contribution&#8221; to the network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear, whether the rest of the current season of Top Gear will ever be on air.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Hall\u2019s statement makes it clear that the show will be renewed for the next year but it is still unclear if Top Gear fans will see new faces on the show or it will be continued with the co-hosts James-May and Richard Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>The Director General of BBC has admitted that it will be a huge challenge to replace Jeremy. On other hand, co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond have said that they would not be on the show without Jeremy Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Richard Hammond\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardhammond\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Richard Hammond tweeted<\/strong><\/a> his thoughts recently, \u201cGutted at such a sad end to an era. We&#8217;re all three of us idiots in our different ways, but it&#8217;s been an incredible ride together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BBC releases the investigation report for the \u2018fracasgate\u2019 scandal &nbsp; BBC has finally released the investigation report for\u00a0one of the speeding Brits, Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s fighting case. BBC has confirmed following Jeremy\u2019s fracas with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, BBC will not be extending his contract anymore. The Investigation report was presented by BBC Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,91],"tags":[227,226,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}