{"id":45705,"date":"2015-03-26T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T08:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45705"},"modified":"2015-03-26T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T08:48:53","slug":"bbc-decides-not-to-renew-jeremy-clarksons-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/26\/bbc-decides-not-to-renew-jeremy-clarksons-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC decides not to renew Jeremy Clarkson&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45758\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45758\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image12.jpg\" alt=\"Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson (center) at the funeral service for Margaret Thatcher in 2013. (Georg Schmidt \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image12.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image12-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson (center) at the funeral service for Margaret Thatcher in 2013. (Georg Schmidt \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; The BBC says it has decided not to renew the contract of &#8220;Top Gear&#8221; host Jeremy Clarkson after a fracas with his producer.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Director-General Tony Hall said in a statement Wednesday that he decided to publish the findings that Clarkson physically and verbally attacked a producer for the program. The investigation found that the producer had to go to a hospital after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Hall says that he knows how popular the program is &#8220;and I also know that this decision will divide opinion,&#8221; but that a line had been crossed in the case of Clarkson&#8217;s often controversial behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Argentina&#8217;s ambassador demanded an apology from the BBC after the &#8220;Top Gear&#8221; crew allegedly referenced the country&#8217;s 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; The BBC says it has decided not to renew the contract of &#8220;Top Gear&#8221; host Jeremy Clarkson after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}