Former Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson, who was fired in 2015 after an attack on the show’s producer, said he wants a radical overhaul of the BBC
Jeremy Clarkson has launched a massive rant at the BBC saying he was ‘sparking fury at every turn’ for minor slip-ups while evil staff like Jimmy Savile and Huw Edwards were “going about their business”.
The big-mouthed ex-Top Gear gloated he feels “smug” now that the Beeb appears to be falling apart since he was ditched for being “the ultimate bad boy”.
He said: “I sparked fury in W1A at every turn. But it turns out that I was actually nothing more than a naughty scallywag, given the paedophiles and wrong ‘uns. Savile and Harris and Edwards were going about their business while I was being reprimanded for calling my new dog Didier Dogba.
“And it keeps getting worse.”
He called out the Trump Panorama editing debacle and the Glastonbury broadcast of rapper Bob Vylan as examples of ongoing Beeb scandals.
The gobby Grand Tour star boasted: “Since it let me go, my life has improved immeasurably, and when I look at what’s happened to it since, I can’t help feeling just a tiny bit smug.”
He was fired in 2015 after an “unprovoked physical attack” on Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
And he now wants to see a radical overhaul of the BBC which would see a massive merger with ITV, Sky and Channel 4 to compete with US giants such as Amazon and Netflix.
Jezza said: “Bring all of the nation’s broadcasters together under one massive Union flag umbrella. Make fewer, more expensively produced shows and put them on the Beeb’s iPlayer, which remains one of the best bits of tech in the business.
“And then people can watch them whenever they want.”
The Clarkson’s Farm star would also axe all scheduled telly and slash the licence fee to just a “tenner” so folk only pay for BBC News and Radio 4.
He said bosses must “tell the people running this slimmed-down operation that they’ve got to stop taking the p***”.
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