According to Jeremy Clarkson, the BBC requested him to remove a Margaret Thatcher banner, so he replaced it with a photo of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The 62-year-old former Top Gear host was among the celebrities who recently supported Match of the Day host Gary Lineker in his spat with the BBC.
On Twitter, Lineker, also 62, criticised the government’s notorious anti-immigration policies, equating the language employed to that of 1930s Germany.
Clarkson welcomed the decision of several of Lineker’s colleagues not to appear on the football review show when he “stepped back” from hosting the programme.
Ian Wright, a former player and current commentator, declared that he would stand behind Gary Lineker. Clarkson answered, “Good on you, friend.”
But, in his most recent column, Clarkson asserts that, contrary to popular belief, the BBC is not governed by Tories, and that every BBC employee he encountered in 25 years was a “flaming red” Labour supporter.
During his tenure at the BBC, he said he was requested to remove a poster of the controversial late prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
‘I know someone who was told to take down his Union Jack because it was “offensive” [to others in the BBC offices]’, Clarkson claimed, writing for the Sunday Times.
He continued, saying: ‘I was asked to remove my poster of Mrs. Thatcher because it was upsetting people who walked past.’
‘[I took the Thatcher poster down] and replaced it with a picture of Kate and Wills, which somehow made [BBC colleagues] even angrier.’
In his piece, he also implied that the BBC would no longer let him to host Top Gear.
‘Remember, what everyone on every BBC platform fears more than anything is a Twitter backlash, so to try to keep that festival of left-wing madness happy, they have to be even more left wing and even more right-on,’ he wrote.
‘And they have to make sure that every show is pitch-perfect to the BLT+ community and the ethnic minority communities and the community communities, and when you’re thinking defensively like that, the concept of informing and educating and entertaining pretty much goes out of the window.’
‘Could I do Top Gear there now? Not a chance.’
William and Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales, were extensively addressed in Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, the all-time best-selling nonfiction book.
In one part, Harry claims that he and his brother William argued about Meghan Markle and that William physically assaulted him.
Clarkson also claimed he was instructed to back previous public sector strikes on The One Show to avoid “uncomfortable moments” on the BBC’s evening programme.
In recent days, the former host of Top Gear asserted that the BBC would not permit him to host the motoring programme in the present.
‘Remember, what everyone on every BBC platform fears more than anything is a Twitter backlash, so to try to keep that festival of left-wing madness happy.’
Source My Celebrity Life.
