Hit the road ... Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has been fired by the BBC. Picture: AP Source: AP
The BBC has dropped one of its most popular presenters, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson for "extreme" verbal and physical abuse of a producer.
"It is with great regret that I have told Jeremy Clarkson today that the BBC will not be renewing his contract," BBC Director-General Tony Hall said, two weeks after the presenter was suspended from the hit motoring show.
Mr Hall said the decision to fire Clarkson was based on evidence of his "sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature" against senior producer Oisin Tymon.
"For me a line has been crossed," he said, acknowledging the popularity of the program. "There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations."
Clarkson, who is yet to make an official statement. updated his Twitter bio to say: "I used to be a presenter on the BBC2 motoring show, Top Gear."
His contarct expires at the end of the month.
Suspended ... Clarkson is accused of punching a producer. Picture: AP Source: AP
Oisin thanked the BBC for a "thorough and swift" investigation into what he called a "very regrettable incident".
"I've worked on Top Gear for almost a decade, a program I love," he said in a statement. "Over that time Jeremy and I had a positive and successful working relationship, making some landmark projects together.
"He is a unique talent and I am well aware that many will be sorry his involvement in the show should end in this way."
Mr Hall said the BBC still hoped to renew Top Gear, which makes the broadcaster around
£50 million ($75 million) each year, for another season.
"This will be a big challenge and there is no point in pretending otherwise," he said.
There was no indication of whether Clarkson would be replaced.
Clarkson's suspension last month sparked nationwide debate, with Prime Minister David Cameron among those weighing in on Clarkson's side and more than one million signing an online petition calling for him to be reinstated.
But the presenter was already on his last warning from the BBC, for whom he has worked since 1988, after drawing fire over a string of inflammatory remarks.
Bringing out the big guns ... Top Gear test driver The Stig stopped traffic in London when he drove a tank to the BBC to deliver a petition in support of Clarkson. Source: Twitter
Most damaging for Clarkson have been accusations of using the N-word while reciting an old nursery rhyme in leaked footage, something the presenter denied.
He was also accused of making a racially offensive comment about an Asian man. Top Gear has regularly been criticised over its depiction and jokes at the expense of Albanians, Romanians and Germans among others.
Last year, the team fled Argentina after residents hurled stones at a Porsche Clarkson was driving whose licence plates appeared to make reference the Falklands War.
The BBC was also forced to apologised to Mexico after the show described Mexicans as "lazy" and "feckless".
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