Jeremy Clarkson has had a sly dig at his Top Gear successor Paddy McGuinness, admitting he doesn’t have a clue who he is.
Paddy has been hosting the BBC motoring show since 2019, but it seems that still hasn’t brought him onto Jeremy’s radar, even though that was his own job for years.
The light-hearted war of words got started when Jeremy tweeted about long-running TV show Question Of Sport, which Paddy now hosts.
“What on earth has happened to Question Of Sport?” he asked his followers.
Paddy then replied and, with a little taunt of his own, suggested that his version of Top Gear was pulling in more viewers than Jeremy’s had.
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“The same thing that’s happened to Top Gear JC,” he posted. “New personnel, bigger ratings.”
Taking the sting out of his comments, he added a kissing emoji and wrote: “Love you.”
Jeremy has now told The Sun: “I didn’t know who the man hosting Question Of Sport was. I thought, ‘What the f*** am I watching? What is this programme?’
“A large number of people who I didn’t know were all shouting, ‘What has happened to Question Of Sport?’ And then it turned out the man in the middle of it all does Top Gear.”
Jeremy, 61, said he recently read a piece about Paddy and that he “seems a nice enough chap”.
“But Christ, Question Of Sport… it’s a long way from Bill Beaumont isn’t it?” he added.
“I don’t understand. Why would you want to change the format? It was so good.”
Jeremy was dropped from Top Gear in 2015 over an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” on a producer.
Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc then became the hosts, but in 2019, Paddy, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff and Chris Harris took the wheel.
Jeremy now fronts his own motoring show, The Grand Tour, with his old Top Gear colleagues James May and Richard Hammond.
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