Jeremy Clarkson's contract with the BBC will not be renewed after the Top Gear presenter was found to have been involved in a physical assault on his producer two weeks ago.
BBC Director General Tony Hall came to the conclusion after a BBC inquiry into the 'fracas' which took place during filming of the motoring show which left Top Gear producer, Oisin Tymon, in Accident and Emergency.
Hall paid tribute to Clarkson as a 'huge talent' but said he had no alternative but to terminate Clarkson's contract with the BBC.
Hall has stood by Clarkson following a number of controversies, including an incident last year when the presenter appeared to mumble a racist remark during a Top Gear out-take.
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BBC Scotland Director Ken MacQuarrie found that Clarkson engaged producer Oisin Tymon in a 30-second physical assault after a 20-minute verbal tirade at the end of a day's location shooting.
Clarkson's contract with the BBC was due to expire at the end of March.
The BBC plan to keep Top Gear on air. It is among the station's most popular shows with five million viewers per show and it also generates around €70m a year for the Corporation's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.
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The future of Clarkson's Top Gear co-hosts, Richard Hammond and James May, with the BBC remains unclear.
Hammond and May's contracts also run out at the end of the month and negotiations for new deals have been put on hold.
There are several reports that the BBC are lining up car fanatic Chris Evans as Clarkson's replacement.
However, the radio DJ has dismissed the rumours. Speaking on his BBC Radio 2 show, Evans said: "This is not true. Not only is it not true - it's absolute nonsense."
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A statement from BBC director general Tony Hall read: "It is with great regret that I have told Jeremy Clarkson today that the BBC will not be renewing his contract. It is not a decision I have taken lightly. I have done so only after a very careful consideration of the facts and after personally meeting both Jeremy and Oisin Tymon.
"I am grateful to Ken MacQuarrie for the thorough way he has conducted an investigation of the incident on 4th March. Given the obvious and very genuine public interest in this I am publishing the findings of his report. I take no pleasure in doing so. I am only making them public so people can better understand the background. I know how popular the programme is and I also know that this decision will divide opinion. The main facts are not disputed by those involved.
"I want to make three points.
"First - The BBC is a broad church. Our strength in many ways lies in that diversity. We need distinctive and different voices but they cannot come at any price. Common to all at the BBC have to be standards of decency and respect. I cannot condone what has happened on this occasion. A member of staff - who is a completely innocent party - took himself to Accident and Emergency after a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature. For me a line has been crossed. There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations.
"Second - This has obviously been difficult for everyone involved but in particular for Oisin. I want to make clear that no blame attaches to him for this incident. He has behaved with huge integrity throughout. As a senior producer at the BBC he will continue to have an important role within the organisation in the future.
"Third - Obviously none of us wanted to find ourselves in this position. This decision should in no way detract from the extraordinary contribution that Jeremy Clarkson has made to the BBC. I have always personally been a great fan of his work and Top Gear. Jeremy is a huge talent. He may be leaving the BBC but I am sure he will continue to entertain, challenge and amuse audiences for many years to come.
"The BBC must now look to renew Top Gear for 2016. This will be a big challenge and there is no point in pretending otherwise. I have asked Kim Shillinglaw to look at how best we might take this forward over the coming months. I have also asked her to look at how we put out the last programmes in the current series."
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