Jeremy Clarkson: "It was my own silly fault" in first interview since Top Gear …
May 21, 2015 by admin
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“But the LFA is something special, a one-off supercar built with obsessive attention to detail that took a decade to go from concept to reality. They very rarely come up for sale and the last one we had on www.PistonHeads.com was priced at £440,000. Lexus never made anything like it before and never will again. For that it’s a proper hero car.”
10:17
Clarkson says final unseen shows being edited and will be broadcast to fans delight.
@JeremyClarkson loved the chat with @achrisevans this morning – great to hear you again and looking forward to the last hoorah!
— Hugh Finnis (@HughFinnis)
May 21, 2015
10:02
Fans desperate to see a Clarkson comeback.
@JeremyClarkson – Loved your interview this morning on Radio 2, cant wait to have you back on TV! #clarkson http://t.co/epdJ4G5QvL
— Wayne Sutton (@mrwsutton)
May 21, 2015
@JeremyClarkson on live radio was great, now to see what else the trio will come back with ??
— Nayely (@fernanda_token)
May 21, 2015
@JeremyClarkson @achrisevans we still love you Jeremy !!
— Debs (@Debs__22)
May 21, 2015
09:51
Final Top Gear shows will be shown, says Clarkson, and reveals they are presently being edited.
Nice to hear @JeremyClarkson this morning on the radio 
— Freya (@FLovesLondon)
May 21, 2015
09:43
Clarkson told the show he could work with the BBC again because, although his contract was not renewed, he was “not sacked, remember”.
He refused to criticise the BBC, saying that although there were some “dreadful people” but also some very “talented people”.
“It’s a great organisation, I’m never going to complain about it,” he said.
09:42
In good spirits, Clarkson posed for selfies with fans as he left Broadcasting House with Evans, in the passenger seat of the DJ’s red Ferrari.
09:40
The Top Gear Live tour has been stripped of all branding and renamed Clarkson, Hammond and May Live, following Clarkson’s sacking and the decision by his two colleagues not to renew their contracts with the BBC motoring show.
The team travel to Belfast today.
09:19
Clarkson has left the building, says Evans.
Leaving on a jet plane to Belfast with May and Hammond to start their six month tour.
09:18
Others pleased to have Clarkson back talking about cars.
Good to hear @JeremyClarkson back on cars
— Arsington (@gymbobz)
May 21, 2015
Brilliant to hear @JeremyClarkson back on the airways with @achrisevans on @BBCRadio2 have missed him! #hurryupwithnewshow
— Sarah Watson (@watsonstweet)
May 21, 2015
09:14
Bet Clarkson looking forward to getting on that plane to start the tour now..
@achrisevans was the Jeremy Clarkson ‘exclusive interview’ the dampest squib of your entire broadcasting career?
— Becky Tallentire (@Bluestocking63)
May 21, 2015
09:04
Clarkson admits the fallout was his own “silly fault”.
Listeners happy at “remorse” shown.
Clarkson sounding remorseful there. #r4today
— Annette Hardy (@Annette1Hardy)
May 21, 2015
08:59
Clarkson’s been back on air for less than an hour and the backlash has started.
#radio2 So sad but switched Chris Evans off; why give friendly airtime to arrogant, obnoxious bully Clarkson? Can’t understand it.
— Irma Believer (@CathDuu)
May 21, 2015
08:55
People not impressed with Clarkson’s interview. Frustration as nothing revealed about any future projects. Maybe Clarkson should take up flower arranging…
Clarkson on Chris Evans’ breakfast show some of the most embarrassing live radio I’ve ever heard. I bet they all just want to go home.
— Paul Murphy (@BBCPaulMurphy)
May 21, 2015
08:53
Listeners asking if Clarkson will punch Evans…unlikely
What are the chances @JeremyClarkson will punch @achrisevans? #Clarkson
— Anisa Subedar (@OnlyAnisa)
May 21, 2015
“It was my own silly fault.” @JeremyClarkson speaks to @achrisevans about Top Gear. http://t.co/wDDAowgacU pic.twitter.com/9zZKxtWExE
— BBC Radio 2 (@BBCRadio2)
May 21, 2015
08:48
“Being unemployed you get busier than weirdly if you actually have a job,” he adds.
Clarkson says he has turned to playing tennis, spending hours hitting balls over roofs.
08:46
“I’m going to spend the next six months with James and Richard on an aeroplane, with James it will be smelly. It will be good fun driving with these two.
“We have got six months, driving around doing live shows. We are starting our world tour this afternoon.
“It is the most badly organised, in three weeks we are off to Sheffield, then Johannesburg, then back to England, then back to Sydney, then South Africa, then Australia, then London…someone needs an atlas.”
08:39
Clarkson adds: “I’m going to do one last track of the Top Gear track, it will be very emotional.”
He will be doing the track for charity.
Evans Clarkson on #radio2 breakfast is quite toe curling. Why they giving him airtime?
— Matt Hall (@mattzki)
May 21, 2015
08:38
“It was very sudden,” says Clarkson on Top Gear sacking.
“You’d be a fool to jump into it [something new].”
08:37
Clarkson reveals he has “absolutely no idea” what the future will hold in terms of a new show but has “talked and listened” to people.
He denied that he was in talks with broadcasters, saying: “We’ve just been listening … I haven’t had a single meeting.”
08:33
When asked about a new car show, Clarkson teases Evans telling him the three of them are working on a new show about flower arranging, travelling around garages to find florals and going to exotic places for flowers, then Hammond will break a vase he jokes.
#radio2 So sad but switched Chris Evans off; why give friendly airtime to arrogant, obnoxious bully Clarkson? Can’t understand it.
— Irma Believer (@CathDuu)
May 21, 2015
08:31
“There are some dreadful people at the BBC but also some incredibly talented people,” said Clarkson
08:30
When asked about the last three unseen programmes, he said: “They were not the strongest, you will get to see them. They are being edited, but it will be someone else, the cleaner, maybe James and Richard [presenting them]. We had to buy cheap 4x4s, costing hundreds of pounds, another was classic cars to go on a classic car weekend, those films will be edited. They belong to licence fee payer so you should be shown them. For those who do like Top Gear there will be one last hoorah.”
08:26
“I’m not going to be a milkman, not with those early starts.
“It was very sad [to leave Top Gear].
“It was my own silly fault. I was at the BBC for 27 years and with Top Gear in its current incarnation for 12 years.It was my baby, I adored it, I paid attention to every little bit of it, I worked all the time on it, all through the night.
“It has left a big hole that needs to be filled.”
08:18
Clarkson says tour with May and Hammond will be “good fun”.
“I genuinely think it will be good fun. We are good friends. We have been able to make films without anyone’s meddling,” he says.
“We have done the films to put into it [the shows].
“We have got super cars, we will be racing Robin Reliants, we will be doing what we have broadly done for the last 10 years. It’s just called a different name.”
08:17
“Lexus LFA,” was the best car ever on Top Gear Clarkson says.
08:15
Clarkson said when he started on the BBC he talked in a Yorkshire accent. He was told he had a job and had to wait a year for a phone call to come in.
08.11
Jeremy Clarkson tells Chris Evans he, James May and Richard Hammond jet off for six month tour today.
He says the live shows have been losts of fun preparing for with “no meddling”.
07.51
Evans, 48, who has one of the most prestigious car collections in Britain, including a £12 million 1963 Ferrari 250GTO, had previously ruled himself out of the running to tbe the new Top Gear presenter, will he change his mind today?
07.49
Will steak and chips be mentioned?
In the controversial incident earlier this year, Clarkson spent 20 minutes verbally abusing producer Oisin Tymon, before launching a 30 second physical assault on him, after he was told he couldn’t have steak and chips after a day’s filming because the hotel where they were staying had stop serving hot food.
07.38
Chris Evans tells listeners ‘the most controversial tv presenter in the world’ is going to be here shortly.
07.30
One question that’s on everyone’s lips is who might replace Jeremy Clarkson as Top Gear presenter. You can vote in our poll here:
Jeremy Clarkson replacement: Who gets your vote?
07.20
It became one of Britain’s best-loved TV shows – and here’s a video of Top Gear’s top five moments.
07.15
Good morning and welcome to our liveblog as Chris Evans prepares to interview Jeremy Clarkson on Radio 2.
We’re expecting him to appear on the breakfast show from soon after 8am. Clarkson is due to speak about his future in his first interview since being axed as Top Gear presenter following his attack on producer Oisin Tymon.
It’s fair to say that Clarkson has had a long and (some might say) glorious history of gaffes. We’ve created a timeline just in case you’ve forgotten any of them.
