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Jeremy Clarkson Returning on Top Gear is Tabloidized BS

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The Clarkson, Hammond and May Live 2015 bandwagon barely kickstarted at the end of May, yet the ex-Top Gear presenters seem to be restless and relentless in their efforts to reinvent themselves.
They made fun of Chris Evans' "Top Gear sequence" on their Twitter accounts, Hammond and May secretly finished filming the remaining Top Gear Series 22 episodes and the BBC purportedly offered the two presenters £4.6 million to keep hosting Top Gear for a few more seasons sans Jeremy Clarkson.

And on all of the aforementioned bombshells comes the most tabloidized of British tabloids - The Daily Star - with a borderline spurious report. Keyan Milanian is adamant that good ole Jeremy Clarkson “looks set for a stunning return to Top Gear.”
In the first paragraph of the story, Keyan tells that “James May revealed Beeb bosses are desperate for the hit show to continue raking in money.” Curious about the statement that made Keyan write this BS?

“We could all go back to the BBC in the future. They [the BBC] don’t appear to be ruling it out. Nothing has been decided, and none of us has agreed to do anything for anybody, as far as I know. I am genuinely uncertain about what to do next, and may do something entirely different,” purportedly declared James May.

I am having a hard time trying to find Clarkson’s return on Top Gear and the BBC’s decision to #BringBackClarkson mentioned in those lines. Reading between the lines doesn’t help either, dear Keyan.

The BBC’s position on what was reported by in this story? “We do not comment on speculation.” Just to end all the speculation surrounding the BBC’s “U-turn to bring Jeremy back,” none of the Top Gear trio - especially Clarkson - will work with an executive producer that isn’t Andy Wilman.

As you may recall, Andy is no longer an employee of the British Broadcasting Corporation. I won’t even mention the boys’ talks with Netflix for a future show dubbed “House of Cars.”

What I do want to mention (and write on The Daily Star’s front page today with the thickest black marker I can get ahold) is the following statement from Captain Power:

"So I'll go down to Surrey and I'll do one last lap of that track before the f****** b******* sack me... And I'll drive somebody around in whatever I can get hold off, I'm sacked, so it's probably an Austin Maestro... anyway it will be my last ever lap of the Top Gear test drive..."

"There was an 18-year waiting list to be in the audience of Top Gear, but the BBC has f***** themselves... It was a great show, and they've f***** it up, tonight's the night when you have the opportunity..." Any questions?
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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