Jeremy Clarkson

In a column for The Sun, Clarkson writes, among other things, that he dreams of seeing Meghan Markle paraded naked and covered in excrement. The article prompts more than 25,000 complaints to IPSO, a record at the time.

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A BBC investigation concludes that Clarkson subjected producer Oisin Tymon to a sustained verbal attack followed by an unprovoked physical assault after a disagreement over the meal provided at the end of filming. Tymon suffers, among other injuries, a bloodied lip. The BBC does not renew Clarkson's Top Gear contract.

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An old unaired Top Gear take shows Clarkson reciting a nursery rhyme and articulating an extremely offensive racial term despite an apparent attempt to mumble it. Following its disclosure, he apologises and asks for forgiveness.

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In the Top Gear Burma Special, Clarkson observes an Asian man on a bridge and says there is "a slope on it", to which Richard Hammond replies that the bridge is indeed higher on one side. Ofcom finds the term derogatory and the double meaning deliberate.

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In Argentina, Clarkson drives a Porsche with the number plate H982 FKL, locally interpreted as a reference to the Falkland Islands and 1982. Filming triggers protests and stone-throwing that force the crew to leave the country.

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Clarkson and Richard Hammond receive penalties in France after being recorded driving sports cars well above the speed limit during a journey connected with Top Gear.

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Appearing on The One Show during a public-sector strike, Clarkson provocatively declares that strikers should be "shot" and "executed in front of their families". The BBC receives more than 30,000 complaints.

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The Top Gear India special includes several jokes about Indian food, toilets, trains and culture, several of them involving Clarkson. The Indian High Commission submits a formal complaint to the BBC.

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Shared responsibility

A joke by Clarkson on Top Gear comparing a vehicle's appearance to Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", prompts a complaint about the treatment of people with facial disfigurements.

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In a segment about a Mexican car, Richard Hammond uses a series of insulting stereotypes, James May disparages Mexican food and Clarkson adds that the ambassador will not complain because he would be asleep. The Mexican embassy formally protests and the BBC apologises to the ambassador.

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Shared responsibility

Clarkson and James May are filmed using parking spaces reserved for disabled people during a Top Gear shoot, prompting public criticism.

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In a column for The Sun, Clarkson describes railway suicides in particularly harsh terms and calls the people concerned "selfish", prompting outrage from suicide prevention organisations.

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On Top Gear, Clarkson uses a metaphor likening a Ferrari to a "simpleton" and then referring to "special needs". The wording prompts complaints from disability organisations.

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During a visit to Australia, Clarkson calls Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is blind in one eye, a "one-eyed Scottish idiot". The remark provokes a strong reaction because of its reference to disability and national origin.

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In the Polar Special, Clarkson and James May are shown consuming alcohol while driving in the Arctic. The BBC Trust subsequently found that the sequence could trivialise or glamorise drink-driving and was not sufficiently justified editorially before the watershed.

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Clarkson jokes on Top Gear that a lorry driver should, among other things, "murder prostitutes". The sequence generates hundreds of complaints and a referral to Ofcom.

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At the British Press Awards, an altercation between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan became physical. Contemporary accounts and Morgan's later recollections describe Clarkson striking him several times.

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Directly implicated