Former Top Gear presenter James Could believes co-star Jeremy Clarkson ought to by no means have been sacked by the broadcaster.

Clarkson was fired by the BBC in 2015 for assaulting a producer when his meal didn’t arrive after a day’s filming.

There had been earlier incidents together with a string of racial slurs and offensive remarks which angered the homosexual group.

Clarkson’s contract with the BBC expired in March 2015, and a beforehand proposed three-year renewal was withdrawn. A petition with 1,000,000 signatures didn’t sway BBC on their resolution.

Could informed The Instances of London that he believes Clarkson’s firing needn’t have occurred.

“I don’t really suppose our High Gear needed to finish due to it. I feel it might have been patched up and put all the way down to a little bit of excessive stress and flightiness, to be sincere. It occurred. It’s regrettable and it’s unlucky, nevertheless it didn’t have to result in the collapse of one thing very profitable…,” he mentioned.

“I imply, with out being big-headed about it, we have been High Gear and we have been one of many largest TV reveals on the planet on the time. It was fairly an intense surroundings and it’s not fully shocking that it sometimes went off the rails. If we’d been AC/DC or Skinny Lizzy, no person would have been the slightest bit shocked.”

Clarkson, Could and Richard Hammond went on to supply The Grand Tour for Prime Video, which concluded in 2024.