Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson Censured



Jeremy Clarkson
(London, England) The popular £3m and more per year co-host of the BBC's Top Gear television program, Jeremy Clarkson, has been censured by the BBC Trust for offensive comments.

Clarkson referred to the camper van as "the elephant car" and began slurring his speech in reference to Joseph Merrick, whose battle with facial disfigurement was portrayed by John Hurt in the 1980 film The Elephant Man.

Clarkson said: "You know sometimes you meet somebody who's got a growth on their face and it's actually bigger than their face?"

Given that standards of speech are tempered for the airways, Clarkson's ""irreverent style of humour" is easy to attack.