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It was an incredible trip
What they love and hate the former host of Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson
On March 25, the leadership of the BBC broadcasting corporation announced that the contract with the leading Top Gear Automobile Show Jeremy Clarkson would not extend. The reason for the dismissal was the brawl brawl braid with the producer of the transmission by the Monk Timon, which Clarkson attacked with his fists - he was outraged by the lack of a hot dinner after filming. Clarkson himself announced the incident to the BBC leadership and was not able to apologize to the producer. However, the strict rules of working relations in the British broadcasting corporation were not played in favor of the TV presenter - since April 2015, he will no longer work in the most popular automobile show in the world. "Medusa" recalls why the whole world loves and hates Jeremy Clarkson - and why there are no other presenters.
What is Jeremy Clarkson known?
Jeremy Clarkson is one of the three leading Top Gear show, which is released on the BBC2 British television channel. This is the most popular program about cars in the world. The releases of Top Gear were translated into many languages, including Russian; They tried to release the show in the franchise (in the Russian version, Klarkson was taken by Nikolai Fomenko), but they had no success. Top Gear is also leading Richard Hammond and James May, but it is the charismatic and incredibly high Clarkson - the main star of the program and her face.
What do they love him for?
This list can be endless. But first of all, Clarkson is loved for his ability to say that other TV presenters would never have dared to pronounce on the air. Therefore, we simply give some known quotes of Jeremy Clarkson:
1. The only one who looked good in the back seat of a four -seater convertible is Adolf Hitler.
2. No, no, no. It is not cheap and good. It is cheap and disgusting - either expensive and excellent.
3. When you are in Italy, sometimes it seems that the Italians would have been more willing to part with the Pope, than to ride like crazy people with the right.
4. In the list of the five most terrible things in the world, American foreign policy will take fifth place. AIDS - on the fourth. Iran’s nuclear program will be in third place. [Former British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown-on the second, and the Maserati gearbox will get leadership. Yes, she is so terrible.
5. Imagine Angelina Jolie. Yes, you heard that she is crazy and eats nothing but glue for wallpaper. But you would not mind, would you? [About the car Alfa Romeo Brera]
6. Made in the UK! In other words, the door of the car will fall off soon.
What is he hated for?
About the same thing for which they adore: Clarkson does not think that there are forbidden topics for jokes. He was accused of racism, sexism, homophobia and ordinary rudeness about the same amount as Top Gear came out. And if you take into account all Clarkson's statements behind the scenes and outside the set, and even more.
Recall only some of these incidents.
In December 2006, the BBC had to apologize for the plot in which Clarkson was called the Daihatsu Copen car a little gay and compared it with ginger beer - the phrase “Ginger Beer” on Kokni is considered a gross designation of a homosexual.
In 2008, Clarkson described the trucks of the trucker as follows: “Switch the gear, switch again, check the mirrors, kill the prostitute, change the transmission, change the program, kill. A lot of things in one day. " The BBC responded to the complaints of viewers, saying that Clarkson was ironic and laughed at the “completely unfair” stereotype.
In 2011, Jeremy Clarkson expressed his opinion about the strikers: “I would have shot them all. I would have pulled them out into the street and dealt with them in front of their families. ” After the complaints of the Unison trade union, the BBC broadcasting corporation was again forced to apologize for the words of the host.
Clarkson also had reasons to love Clarkson's former Prime Minister of Great Britain from the Labor Party of Gordon Brown. In 2009, Clarkson sincerely mocked the politician: first he called Brown “a one -eyed Scottish idiot” (I had to ask for forgiveness), and then on the set several times, according to eyewitnesses, called him an extremely rude English word denoting the female genital organs (fortunately for Clarksson, these words did not go on air).
Clarkson’s statements were also outraged by the governments of other countries. The host called Romania “Borat’s country” (who, apparently confused, with the real country of Borat Sagdiev - Kazakhstan) and joked that the gypsies could attack anyone who did not like it here. The episodes in Mexico and India caused rabies among officials because of Clarkson's statements about local morals, customs and food (in Mexico, for example, Clarkson was played by his colleague Richard Hammond, who asked: what did it be like to wake up with a Mexican? Clarkson went to the Mexican laziness: “It would be good, it would be not at once, it would be not at once, it would be not at once. Go to sleep ”).
In defense of Clarkson, we can say that he jokes in the same way over the UK and the British.
What about cars?
Jeremy Clarkson, of course, loved to laugh not only at nationalities and sexual orientation. Top Gear, first of all, is famous for the extremely emotional comments of the leading about cars. Clarkson simply hated some car manufacturers. Moreover, the British brands Rover and Vauxhall were most of all - their host criticized at any opportunity (and the Vauxhall Vectra model called his most unloved machine in the world: “It was invented during a break into coffee people who do not spit on cars”). Separately, Clarkson went through the Russian automobile industry - a whole plot is dedicated to him in Top Gear.
Car manufacturers have repeatedly complained about Clarkson in BBC. Vauxhall, for example, called the criticism of the TV presenter absolutely one-sided, and the businessman Elon Musk-the founder of Tesla-even sued Top Gear, accusing the program that the episode dedicated to the Tesla Roadster test drive was dishonestly mounted (during the test the car was discharged, and Clarkson, not constraining in expressions, Pushed her into the garage manually).
What will happen next with Top Gear?
Before Clarkson was removed from work (after a brawl with a producer), three more Top Gear issues were supposed to go to the BBC2. Their fate is unknown - the show was frozen during the investigation; And it is not known whether something from the footage will now show. The British press has been discussing for the first week who can replace Clarkson, but it is obvious that there can be no replacement. According to rumors, James May and Richard Hammond were offered to lead the show together, but they refused to work without Clarkson. May called the decision of the BBC leadership “tragedy”, and Hammond wrote on Twitter: “He was amazed at such a sad end of the era. We are all three-idiots differently, but it was an incredible trip. ”
Pavel Borisov
Riga