The angry bust-up that left Jeremy Clarkson suspended from Top Gear was triggered when he got revved up about a steak, a witness has claimed.
Presenter Clarkson, 54, is off air as the BBC investigates claims he hit producer Oisin Tymon, 36, when he returned to his hotel after a long day of filming and found there was only soup and a cold meat platter.
An onlooker said the star, who had been drinking rosé wine, launched into an expletive-filled tirade using “every bad word you could think of” and ranted “so there’s no food” when he was told he would not get the steak he wanted.
The witness said: “We were surprised at his reaction because we were all thinking ‘surely soup is food’.”
The chef was said to have gone home, but the meat platters were available for Clarkson and his co-presenters James May, 52,
and Richard Hammond, 45.
Now details of the bust-up, which happened at Simonstone Hall Hotel near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales, can be fully revealed for the first time.
Seems like Clarkson has wanted to punch people before.