{"id":109706,"date":"2015-04-19T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T14:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109706"},"modified":"2015-04-19T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T14:11:55","slug":"clarkson-describes-cancer-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109706","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson describes cancer scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he thought he probably had cancer at the time he hit a Top Gear producer.<\/p>\n

In his Sunday Times column, he said the incident came on his “most stressful day… in 27 years at the BBC” – but that other people facing stress “manage to cope better than I did”.<\/p>\n

He told the paper he later got the all-clear over a lump on his tongue.<\/p>\n

He was dropped from Top Gear in March over what the BBC called an “unprovoked physical attack” on Oisin Tymon.<\/p>\n

In his column, Clarkson wrote: “Two days before the ‘fracas’ I’d been told, sternly, by my doctor that a lump on my tongue was probably cancer and that I must get it checked out immediately.<\/p>\n

“But I couldn’t do that. We were in the middle of a Top Gear series. And Top Gear always came first.”<\/p>\n

‘Many-tentacled monster’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 55-year-old also described his obsession with the Top Gear job, especially after the break-up of his marriage and the death of his mother, and the “enormous” sense of loss he felt after his contract was not renewed.<\/p>\n

“It was an all-consuming entity, a many-tentacled global monster that was dysfunctional and awkward and mad but I loved it with a passion. I loved it like my own child,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“I felt sick because after I’d lost my home and my mother, I’d thrown myself even more vigorously into my job and now, idiotically, I’d managed to lose that too.”<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond presented Top Gear together from 2003<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He told the newspaper he had initially thought about not doing any more television, but that he was now planning to “pick up the pieces” and do another car show – although he did not know whether he would be working with his former Top Gear co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond.<\/p>\n

Clarkson was suspended by the BBC on 10 March, following the altercation with Mr Tymon.<\/p>\n

The decision caused an outpouring of support from Top Gear fans, with more than a million people signing an online petition to reinstate him.<\/p>\n

The row, which took place in a North Yorkshire hotel, was said to have occurred because no hot food was provided following a day’s filming.<\/p>\n

After an internal investigation, the BBC’s director general Tony Hall confirmed Clarkson’s contract would not be renewed.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he thought he probably had cancer at the time he hit a Top Gear producer. In his Sunday Times column, he said the incident came on his “most stressful day… in 27 years at the BBC” – but that other people facing stress “manage to cope better than I did”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":109707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-109706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}