Sacked Jeremy Clarkson has one last rant in Top Gear magazine
SACKED Jeremy Clarkson found time for one last rant in Top Gear magazine.
He blasted the show’s critics and said the brand’s success pays to prop up other BBC programmes.
Without Top Gear’s foreign sales, there would be even less sport on the BBC, he said.
Writing in the latest issue of the magazine, Clarkson challenged any unhappy viewers to make their own car show and told them to stop leaving “stupid” comments on the Top Gear message board.
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He wrote: “Generally speaking, the new series of Top Gear seems to have been rather popular.
“The viewing figures are only about 400 million behind that midwife thing on the other side, the newspaper reviews are generous, we’ve managed to avoid a Hammond-shaped icicle in Canada, and May has driven from London to the studio at Dunsfold [in Surrey] every week, without going via Shropshire.
Generally speaking, the new series of Top Gear seems to have been rather popular
"We’ve not even crashed to any significant degree.
“However, on Top Gear’s website, there’s a smattering of people who aren’t impressed at all.
“Well, at least, I think they’re not impressed.
"It’s hard to be sure as their comments are a mishmash of acronyms and short forms... all wrapped up in a virtually impenetrable parcel of apostrophe abuse and spelling mistakes.
“Top Gear is about balance.
"It’s about a blend of supercars, normal cars, very cheap cars, madcap projects that go wrong... sumptuous photography, excellent music and jokes, some of which are funny.”
