Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? UK publication Mirror is reporting that only one month after being fired from Top Gear, power lover and hot-meal activist Jeremy Clarkson will make his return to the BBC with an April 24th appearance as guest host on the comedy panel show Have I Got News For You, prompting rumors of a comeback.
Details of the appearance were settled prior to the one-time cohost’s firing, but were called into question after Clarkson allegedly assaulted TG producer Oisin Tymon last month at a North Yorkshire hotel. Clarkson was suspended and eventually sacked following an internal investigation by the BBC, despite an online petition with over a million signatures calling for his return. It will be his first time back on television since the March 8th airing of Top Gear.
Big wigs within the BBC took several weeks to decide whether or not Clarkson should be allowed back, with a BBC spokeswoman eventually telling Mirror that “Jeremy’s contract has not been renewed on Top Gear but he isn’t banned from appearing on the BBC.”
Cohosts Richard Hammond and James May have refused to continue filming without Clarkson. The show’s fate, including the remaining episodes of season 22, remains uncertain.
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Jeremy Clarkson Will Return To BBC; But Not Top Gear originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 9 April 2015 09:00 EST.
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