After production for the current series was suspended and Freddie Flintoff was said to be ‘quitting,’ Jeremy Clarkson has shared his opinion on the future of Top Gear.
Clarkson was fired from the programme by the BBC in 2015 after punching producer Oisin Tymon, who eventually obtained a £100,000 settlement from the television host.
After James May and Richard Hammond left, Flintoff, Take Me Out’s Paddy McGuinness, and automotive writer Chris Harris took over as hosts, claiming that the trio ‘come as a package’.
Following Fllintoff’s terrifying collision last year, the future of Top Gear, which debuted in 2002, is now up in the air.
In December, it was reported that the former cricketer was “lucky to be alive” following an accident while filming the BBC series at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.
Flintoff’s car is believed to have overturned, and although wearing a helmet, he was evacuated to the hospital with fractured ribs and facial injuries.
Filming on the programme will not restart, the BBC stated, with despite rumours that ‘daredevil’ Flintoff is ‘quitting the show’.
However, Clarkson believes that the show must go on.
He said: ‘I can quite understand why he would choose to do something else in future.
‘I do hope, however, that my old mates who run the show can find a way of saving it.’
‘Because in these days of soft and cuddly eco-madness, we need schemes like it more than ever,’ he continued in his The Sun column.
This comes after Clarkson stated on his personal Twitter account that he does not believe he will return to the show, as he weighed in on the controversy surrounding Gary Lineker after the football pundit compared the UK government’s language around migrants to that used in 1930s Germany.
‘Remember, what everyone on every BBC platform fears more than anything is a Twitter backlash, so they have to be even more left wing and even more right-on to keep that festival of left-wing crazy pleased,’ he said.
‘And they have to make sure that every performance is pitch-perfect to the BLT+ community, ethnic minority groups, and community communities, and when you’re thinking defensively like that, the notion of informing, educating, and entertaining goes out the window.’
Could I film Top Gear there now? ‘Not a chance,’ he told The Times.
Top Gear is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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