Jeremy Clarkson has admitted that the BBC is the hardest place to get fired from. The outspoken Top Gear presenter made the comment to some journalists camped outside his house whilst on his way out to the shops to buy some steak.
Clarkson said "I don't want to just walk away, I want them to fire me, that way I'll get a huge payout."
Clarkson is currently suspended from the BBC after a heated confrontation with a colleague about who got the last packet of Jelly Babies in the vending machine turned ugly, but Clarkson admitted controversy has followed him throughout his career.
He said "I slagged off some public workers while on the One Show, made a racist remark but they cut it, we went to Argentina and drove around with offensive number plates and I thought that last one would be it but alas not. I've tried to be the biggest homophobic, fascist, misogynistic, male chauvinistic pig I could be but they're not interested at the BEEB, I just keep getting more and more popular.
However it is thought that this may be Clarkson's last chance as his contract expires at the end of this month. Clarkson said "Now I'm just doing it out of spite, I did want those Jelly Babies but I could have just let the child who works for one of the kids TV programmes have them. I knew I only had two episodes left so I thought i could do this, get suspended and have a few weeks off on full pay. Then it's easy for the BBC because they just don't even need to make a decision, just don't renew my contract.
As Clarkson walked away to catch the bus he said "and now I have more time to devote to my humanitarian work, I'm thinking about going to countries where they don't give women the vote to campaign for them to do so and then I'm going to work with some anti-racism campaigns to help increase their profile.
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