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Rumour has it that the BBC has a new presenter lined up to replace Jeremy Clarkson.

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:-D :-D :-D

One name mentioned is Sue Perkins. How is that going to work on what is by any definition, a "lad's" programme? A politically correct, left wing lesbian! Not that I have anything against lesbians of course. Bob W

She's not tall enough to put the uncool cars higher than Hammond, on the " Cool" wall......

Sue Perkins has said that the rumour is just that, and after death threats has suspended posting on her twitter account...

But actually I don't see what being left wing or a lesbian ( PC or otherwise) has got to do with having an interest in cars and/or presenting ? Don't girls drive in your world boys...or are you scared they may know just as much as JC about both those things, but without giving you the comfort of seeing a paunchy, balding, over grown 'adolescent in a man's body' making like he is God's gift lol ? ;-)

You'll be telling us next that only boys can play with trains and the girls should stay in the kitchen :-D

quite right ...........you play where you feel comfortable.......

there's always been a few " Ladettes "in the audience

Just so long as they don't give women the vote.

The whole dreary programme is long past its sell by date - like the presenters. Let it die quietly.

As one who has a great deal to regret about things I have done when drunk. I would like to see Clarkson back.

Bringing back "Top Gear" with anybody bearing the stamp of approval of Danny Cohen is just not going to happen ... viewing figures will fall of a cliff and the all important foreign earnings evaporate.

Nobody has as yet managed a successful consumer oriented car show ( eg 5th gear or Top Gear before Clarkson got hold of it) for the simple reason they are boring beyond belief. The Top Gear trio's banter and loony stunts are what made the show work.

Cohen's stuff is very PC but has poor ratings. He will get the chop after a decent interval has elapsed. And then ...

Sharron, you think it's OK that he punched his employee in the face?

He was drunk, the employee did not make the fuss and , to be perfectly honest, I have done things that were just as bad.

That's ok then Sharron? supposing the producer had been a woman? if the 'reason' he punched is because he was drunk and so not responsible then it could just as easily have been a woman on the receiving end... the hotel staff for instance.

Is it then ok for a man to punch his wife and use the excuse that he is drunk ? or punch another bloke ( as happened outside my local pub a few weeks back... one single punch, one death! )

If you get aggressive when you drink...don't drink, simple as that ! he's a bg boy he surely knows that by now,

I've never punched anyone in the face, if I had I'd be so ashamed.

Being drunk is no excuse for violence.

Actually I didn't punch, I headbutted.

It happened, I live with the consequences. It will never be undone.

I don't drink now, can't think why I ever did really, and I don't feel I can take the moral high ground.

I think that if Top Gear was still at its peak, the BBC would have been reluctant to sack Jeremy Clarkson. The fact that he's been sent off to the job centre indicates that the BBC realise that Top Gear is past its prime. Now is as good a time as any to knock it on the head.

I like you Sharron

Top Gear was BB2's top show by some margin with audience figures in the UK of 5.1 million/week far higher than anything else on BBC2 and much of BBC1 come to that. On top it generated the lion's share of BBC World Wide revenue. It was far from fading away though increasingly unpopular with people who never watched it.

Before "Poldark" Danny Cohen had never brought in a top show with healthy audience figures though he is very well connected to all the right people in the BBC. Despite that if he doesn't replace the revenue stream by end 2016 or earlier he will likely be out on his neck. Poldark has already ahem, subsided from 8.1m viewers to 6.1m in the latest episode.

Anybody who has got through life without ever seeing or being on one end or the other of a bloke v bloke physical set-to have led a sheltered existence. Or maybe they are 2m tall, weigh 100kg and come from Neath...

"Anybody who has got through life without ever seeing or being on one end or the other of a bloke v bloke physical set-to have led a sheltered existence."

Not sheltered just civilised. Most of us do manage to live civilised non-violent lives.

There is a difference between a "bloke v bloke physical set to" ( implying they each threw at least one punch) and an unprovoked assault by a drunk though?

The facts as I know them are that Clarkson had been out on the lash, then returned two hours after the dining room had closed and took out his anger on the only member of the crew who was around, splitting his lip and calling him ( allegedly) a "lazy Irish **nt" now that isn't just someone who has a beef ( no pun intended re steak) and is a bit narky...

Such sympathy for poor Clarkson but none for the bloke who ended up at A & E with a split lip, followed by death threats for being daft enough to get hit and possibly be the cause of depriving people from watching their favourite on TV.

In any case I am sure there are three blokes out there somewhere who can replace the TG lads and be just as entertaining... lol, answers on a postcard.

Does the Poldark star drive? I might tune in to ogle if nothing else, I don't drive myself but I have always liked fast cars driven by gorgeous men ;-)