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BRITISH POLICE ARE investigating a death threats against BBC director-general Tony Hall following his decision to drop “Top Gear” presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
Scotland Yard police headquarters confirmed it was examining allegations made on Wednesday, when Hall confirmed Clarkson’s contract would not be renewed at the end of March after he hit a producer.
“Police in Westminster are investigating an allegation of threats to kill. The allegation was reported to police on Wednesday,” a spokesman said. ”Inquiries continue. No arrests have been made.”
The Mail on Sunday newspaper said Hall’s home had been under 24-hour guard since the threats were received.
The weekly tabloid printed pictures showing security outside, claiming it was costing €1,350 a day to protect the corporation’s top executive.
A BBC spokeswoman said: “We wouldn’t comment on security matters.”
“Top Gear” is the world’s most popular factual television programme, with 350 million viewers per week in 170 countries.
Clarkson, who was the main presenter, is caricatured by fans as a straight-talking man-of-the-people and by detractors as a boorish bigot.
More than a million people have signed a petition calling for Clarkson to be reinstated.
Clarkson’s contract was not renewed after an internal BBC investigation found he physically attacked “Top Gear” producer Oisin Tymon following a lengthy verbal tirade, reportedly because the presenter was annoyed at a lack of hot food after a day’s filming.
The 30-second attack saw Clarkson strike the producer, giving Tymon a swelling, bleeding lip.
The outspoken presenter, 54, flagged the incident to the BBC after Tymon took himself to hospital.
Clarkson’s departure will have financial implications for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as its commercial arm BBC Worldwide earns around €70 million a year from the show.
- © AFP 2015.
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Trump threatened to sue the comedian Jon Stewart for suggesting that his father was an Orang Utan.
Trump even sent the TV show host a copy of his birth certificate.
Stewart replied that the short cert was no good and only the long form of the cert would be acceptable.
It was Bill Maher that Trump threatened to sue; they had a long running battle via Maher’s Real Time show on HBO. it’s fair to say that Jon Stewart isn’t Trump’s biggest fan either.
In fairness to the ferret, he’s doing a great job.
He’s almost just a sideshow act at this stage, mind you, a very dangerous one. There’s no flies on him, if there were he’d have them paying rent.
Sideshow Bob lives……
Finally! We are getting past silly season and down to the core principles of the candidates
The hero America deserves https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuesauNtqTU
She should’ve given it a good ol yank !
It’s the most elaborate comb over known to man!
And that matters because?
Would his hair be so pristine on a wet night in Stoke?
Of course it’s real. Did anybody serioualy think it was a toupee? It’s the mother of all combovers. He’s a bald man who has weaved his remaining hair into something truly terrifying, but it’s obvious it’s all his own. No wigmaker would produce something so horrendous.
If it is real, it’s more embarrassing having all that money and still both being and looking like a complete bloody clown
He’s 70 years of age u tw@t!! What will u look like at that age!
Clowns live to 70 too David. Your close enough yourself I’d say.
I was referring to his David, that’s what the article was about
#hair
OMG it’s you!
Ah yes, but would he bring someone up to see if he actually has a soul?
I’d be more interested to know did she find signs of anything between his ears.
he’s an awful eejit that fella, him and the shredded wheat on his head!!
But at least he never bombed an entire country
The hair screamed and curled up in a ball.
she must have been a PLANT!
He’s right about the need to focus on mental health over gun control though. Lots of wackos killing people in this country too with no guns readily available.
It’s refreshing to see someone actual come out and say it rather than parroting the same jaded anti-gun talking points.
I’m surprised his hair didn’t attack her
I think her name is Barber-a
Trump the only candidate who can make America Great Again. Failed career politicians beholden to lobbyist and big donors can’t do it.
USA is built on the genocide of native Americans, the theft and rape of their lands, slavery of African people, and military campaigns in other countries, many illegal. If that’s what you mean by greatness, then I guess Trump will carry along those lines.
I have no problem with his hair it’s what’s under it
Head lice, sorry Headline news ….. ‘Donald Trump combs his hair’. Ground breaking journalism at it’s best!
The planet is in crisis and all liberals worry about is someone’s hairstyle.
Says is all really.
Its called Idiocracy and it gets worse by the month
Now if she could only do the same test on David Davin Power.
Why did she pull on the side??
Why not the top and show the entire comb forward?
PLANT
” I can confirm he does not have gills “
Of course it’s real, it’s a ferret trained to sit on top of his head but sometimes it has a mind of its own
A plant obviously..an implant..lol
trump for president hahaha only in America
His hair ‘might’ be real but trump is an obnoxious tool.
Implants.
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