Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been susupended

This week has gone terrible at the BBC after it was confirmed one of its biggest presenters, Jeremy Clarkson, has been suspended from Top Gear after having fall-out with one of the show’s producers.

Clarkson whose career is already on a thread was said to have allegedly thrown a punch at a male producer following a fracas

"No one else has been suspended. Top Gear will not be broadcasted this Sunday. The name of the producer was not said as BBC refused additional comment on the issue



The news came as a huge blow to Clarkson who admitted, with some degree of understatement, that he has recently had a "difficult” last few months which culminated in him and the show's team being hounded out of Argentina after protestors took violent exception to the numberplate of the car he was driving.

Clarkson was put on what was called his final warning last year following a racism row after claims that he used the n-word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe during filming of the BBC2 programme.

This Sunday's episode was set to feature the trio - Clarkson with Richard Hammond and James May - getting to grips with classic cars such as a Fiat 124 Spider, an MGB GT and a Peugeot 304 Cabriolet.

They were set to take to the road and end up at a classic track day, while Gary Lineker was the "star in a reasonably priced car".

Top Gear's executive producer Andy Wilman described last year as "an annus horribilis" for the show after the claims of racism and the near-riot in Argentina.