Clarkson Does It Again

xXx · May 22, 2007

Jeremy Clarkson once again failed to keep his mouth shut....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6676839.stm

Clarkson rapped over 'gay' jibe

Five people complained about Clarkson's terminology

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been criticised by the media watchdog Ofcom for using a term which was "capable of giving offence to homosexual people".

The Top Gear host described a vehicle on the BBC Two show last July as being "very ginger beer", taken to be rhyming slang for the term "queer".

Ofcom said there was "no justification for using the word in this way".

In December, the BBC complaints unit said there has been "no editorial purpose" for the remarks.

Ofcom said the complaint had been resolved because the BBC had already warned the production team and producers not to repeat the offence.

The regulator decided the use of the word "gay" was not necessarily offensive, but Clarkson's use of the term was "clearly linking the reference to homosexual people".

Clarkson used the phrase during a discussion with the studio audience about the two-seater Daihatsu Copen.

Last year, he was cleared of making a racist slur about Germany because this was adjudged to be amusing rather than offensive.

The Don · May 22, 2007

Jeremy Clarkson once again failed to keep his mouth shut....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6676839.stm

Clarkson rapped over 'gay' jibe

Five people complained about Clarkson's terminology

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been criticised by the media watchdog Ofcom for using a term which was "capable of giving offence to homosexual people".

The Top Gear host described a vehicle on the BBC Two show last July as being "very ginger beer", taken to be rhyming slang for the term "queer".

Ofcom said there was "no justification for using the word in this way".

In December, the BBC complaints unit said there has been "no editorial purpose" for the remarks.

Ofcom said the complaint had been resolved because the BBC had already warned the production team and producers not to repeat the offence.

The regulator decided the use of the word "gay" was not necessarily offensive, but Clarkson's use of the term was "clearly linking the reference to homosexual people".

Clarkson used the phrase during a discussion with the studio audience about the two-seater Daihatsu Copen.

Last year, he was cleared of making a racist slur about Germany because this was adjudged to be amusing rather than offensive.

Ha ha, well you can't say he speaks his own mind, sometimes even I feel political correctness has gone a bit too far in britain, though some of his comments and even stunts in top gear are mere publicity stunts but it keeps the show interesting