Big smile at all you who think he will be leaving the screens, he'll be on another soon enough doing history, engineering, war or suchlike immediately. Top gear was getting stale, his contract was up for review, wouldn't be suprised if this was just a marketing move.

To be fair the lesbians have had it coming for some time now.
Besides how can any of you prattle on about an insignificant has been like Clarkson when far more pressing social out cry exists?
Zayn has left one direction for Christs sake!
To be fair the lesbians have had it coming for some time now.
Besides how can any of you prattle on about an insignificant has been like Clarkson when far more pressing social out cry exists?
Zayn has left one direction for Christs sake!
Got it in one. He was simply jockeying for position and feathering his nest for the presumably very large volume of suitors he's now "forced" to choose between. The whole thing fits his public persona so perfectly he couldn't pay his marketing team enough to get such uncannily "on message" coverage. Looking at the last couple years or so from his perspective he's repeatedly had to apologise for pushing it too far in recent times as well as having to apologise for somewhat murkier things from his past and so forth. Suits his image and pleases his core audience but is an untenable position longterm. Either he has to play nice and compromise (kiss of death to his career) or he has to find a way to get away from the Beeb and ideally in such a way as to be both big bad Clarkson and also poor lil martry. If this sequence of events wasn't just coincidentally highly fortuitous he certainly will have been immensely pleased it all just happens to fit perfectly with the only "out" he has from the Beeb that doesn't ruin his image and thus his career.