Jeremy Clarkson to get new 3 year, £12m BBC deal
Controversial Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is on the verge of signing a new £12million deal with the BBC, the Sunday People can reveal.
Clarkson, at the centre of a racism row earlier this month, is in the final stages of negotiations for another mega-bucks three-year contract.
The mouth-watering deal will keep him at the BBC until 2018 – even though bosses warned him after the latest uproar that he is “drinking in the last chance saloon”.
A BBC source said: “There is no question of Jeremy’s deal not being renewed.
“It is being worked on right now. The top executives want him signed up as soon as possible.
“We are all very excited that Top Gear as we know it will be with us for three more years from 2015.”
The 54-year-old host’s lucrative new contract comes despite being officially reprimanded by Director Danny Cohen and forced to apologise after he appeared to the use the n-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe during a Top Gear out-take.
There were several calls for him to be sacked but he was saved by Director General Tony Hall.
Source & more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-new-12million-bbc-3603900
Controversial Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is on the verge of signing a new £12million deal with the BBC, the Sunday People can reveal.
Clarkson, at the centre of a racism row earlier this month, is in the final stages of negotiations for another mega-bucks three-year contract.
The mouth-watering deal will keep him at the BBC until 2018 – even though bosses warned him after the latest uproar that he is “drinking in the last chance saloon”.
A BBC source said: “There is no question of Jeremy’s deal not being renewed.
“It is being worked on right now. The top executives want him signed up as soon as possible.
“We are all very excited that Top Gear as we know it will be with us for three more years from 2015.”
The 54-year-old host’s lucrative new contract comes despite being officially reprimanded by Director Danny Cohen and forced to apologise after he appeared to the use the n-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe during a Top Gear out-take.
There were several calls for him to be sacked but he was saved by Director General Tony Hall.
Source & more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-new-12million-bbc-3603900
