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# Top Gear

All time
# track record
Top Gear could be in trouble for using the word 'pikey'
Ofcom is investigating after a complaint was made by the Traveller Movement.
# outta here
James May has officially left Top Gear
With executive producer Andy Wilman tonight also quitting the show, it seems Top Gear will have a very different feel going forward.
# awks
James May says he won't return to Top Gear as it would be 'awks' without Jeremy Clarkson
Awks indeed.
# Bored
Top Gear's Richard Hammond made a video about how mind numbingly bored he is
Unemployment will do that to you, you know.
# sexist backlash
'Man do cars, woman do cake' - Death threats for Sue Perkins amid Top Gear rumours
The presenter says some people have suggested they want her ‘burned alive’.
# Top Gear Saga
Sue Perkins has taken a break from Twitter after Top Gear death threats
The next stage in the never ending Top Gear saga.
# Back from the Dead
Good news, Top Gear fans - Jeremy Clarkson says the show will be back
Perhaps even on the BBC.
# where will it end
Surprise - now Clarkson has pulled out of Have I Got News For You
All of two days after the news emerged that he was set to host the satirical quiz.
# Top Gear
Police will not be taking further action against Jeremy Clarkson
The producer involved said he didn’t want any action taken.
# Top Gear
BBC chief receives death threats over sacking of Jeremy Clarkson
It has been reported that Tony Hall’s home has been under 24-hour guard since the threats were made.
# Greensleeves
Top Gear's James May seems to be enjoying his new-found 'unemployment'
He’s been learning the descant recorder, you know.
# goodnight
Jeremy Clarkson confesses everything in a brilliant mashup of the 'last ever Top Gear'
“I just don’t know the parameters of reasonable common sense.”
# Falklands War
Argentinian commenters are pretty happy with Clarkson's dismissal
The presenter was involved in a controversial incident in the country last year.
# Fracas
"Leave Ois alone... none of this is his fault": Jeremy Clarkson
The TV presenter has made an appeal for the public to leave Irish producer Oisin Tymon alone.
# ush-een
Nobody in the UK can pronounce 'Oisín' and it's driving Irish people mad
Top Gear presenter Oisín Tymon’s name has been the source of great confusion for British media.
# Poll
Poll: Was the BBC right to drop Clarkson?
The broadcaster will not be renewing his contract.
# clarkson
Here's how Toyota paid tribute to Jeremy Clarkson after yesterday's sacking
“Thanks for everything, Jeremy.”
# Rocky Road
Police are now involved after axed Clarkson's attack on producer
A BBC investigation found he punched and verbally abused his producer.
# all for one and one for all
'The three of us as a package - it works': James May hints he may be off with Clarkson
The show will go on, but with who?
# Top Job
6 people tipped to replace Clarkson on Top Gear
Who can fill his (awful) jeans?
# End of the road
Sacked in the morning: Jeremy Clarkson to be fired tomorrow by BBC, say reports
The Telegraph are reporting that the presenter will be fired after its investigation.
# dodgy
Jeremy Clarkson made an extremely dodgy typo in this Twitter exchange with a fan
Things just go from bad to worse.
# no vroom
Live Top Gear shows in Norway cancelled
The shows were due to take place this week.
# stig in a tank
Clarkson "very touched" after one-million-signature petition delivered to BBC
Clarkson says that the “f*****g b******s” at the BBC have sacked him.
# has he got news...
Jeremy Clarkson could be back on the BBC by May (but not in his Top Gear presenter's chair)
The controversial host is being lined up to guest present the influential Have I Got News For You just days before the UK election.
# Complaint
Jeremy Clarkson cleared over the use of the word 'pikey' on Top Gear
The decision has been criticised by a Traveller group which accused the BBC of ‘legitimising a racist word’.
# Dinosaur
Clarkson 'called Top Gear producer lazy Irish and punched him'
The Top Gear presenter could be about to quit the BBC.
# freedom to fracas
740,000 people now want Jeremy Clarkson back on TV
Popular man.
# star in fracas
Clarkson to reporters: "Just off to the job centre"
Meanwhile, a petition calling for the Top Gear presenter to be re-instated has reached almost a quarter of a million signatures.
# Jeremy Clarkson
11 of the most inappropriate Clarksonisms ever uttered on Top Gear
He’s not afraid to hold back, anyway.
# Gaffe
Would a Top Gear without Jeremy Clarkson survive?
It’s likely to continue to be a nice little earner for the Beeb.
# Fracas
Here's what people are saying for and against Jeremy Clarkson on Twitter
Opinion is divided.
# Your Say
Poll: Is it time for Jeremy Clarkson to go?
Has he gone too far this time?
# Top Gear
Here is Jeremy Clarkson's response to getting suspended by the BBC
Zero f**ks given.
# suspended
9 of Jeremy Clarkson's most unfortunate moments
Clarkson has a storied history of making a fool of himself.
# now into first
Ed Sheeran had his first ever driving lesson on Top Gear, and it went as well as you'd expect
Dat biting point tho.
# falklands
Top Gear team forced to leave Argentina after anger over Clarkson's number plate
Locals claimed the registration plate referred to the Falklands war.
# wild atlantic way
Will the Stig be doing a time trial in the Ring of Kerry?
Let’s file that under ‘thing we need to see’.