POC

How much do you rekon those fellas get paid? Going by what the radio1 guys were rumored to be earning I would imagine its a fair whack!?

PeteBrant

It all depends on the "pull" of the person in question. Obviously none of them are exactly on the breadline, and they all write columns for various new papers. But I don't think any of them are on multi million pound contracts though - Although this is obviously conjecture.

I think Clarkson is wanting the "Jonothan Ross" style contract. I mean he knows he is a position where ITV/Sky would snap him up without question - I think he is calling the BBCs bluff. There are few presenters that can command multi million viewing audiences regardless of programme, but Clarkson is undoubatly one of them.

Regardless, my source say that as it stands, this is his last series of Top Gear. Hopefully they are dead wrong.

Funkii Munkii

For a start it's BBC2, one less decimal point for the money men to worry about, no matter how popular it is it's BBC2 it wont pay as much as if it was on BBC1 at 20.00 on a Tues or Thurs for example.

D6ale

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I hope its not true and there are always rumours of TG ending.

Maybe BBC are pushing TG out after the Hammond Crash? JC takes the show to another channel ?

Dracoro

Not sure I agree. Outside of motoring, he hasn't been successful. Look at that Clarkson chatshow he did, complete flop.

Sure he gets money from his DVDs etc. as much as TV contracts.

j4ckos mate

i think one of them will go and it will be binned,

you only have to look how each one is doing their own thing lately

Jay m A

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I hope Clarkson does more war / engineering / Britain history documentries, his narrative style would pull a greater audience than the usual historydoc viewers, which is never a bad thing.

Freak

Hopefully it will be hammond 'the driving god' who goes ... irritating little twerp.

Ray_li

I enjoyed watching Clarksons other stuff.

If he leaves, TG would not be the same. As far as I'm concerned. Clarkson is TopGear

StickyMicky

its the stig.

oldsplice

Please God, don't let them bring in Vicky Butler-Henderson to replace whoever goes!

Attu

Ive read that this rumour originally started because some thing JC said taking the p*ss out of May having to leave early to go to a Doctors appointment.
I dont know exactly what was said but some one has taken it the wrong way.

Leslie

All three of them are good presenters in their own right. When they are lumped together trying to appeal to the younger and more rebellious types, they lose it somehow and it descends into some kind of a predictable pantomime farce. Anyone can appear to raise a reaction when they say the sort of things which are against authority but eventually it becomes boring and ineffectual.

The show is desperately short of truly original material and it seems to have reached the end of its natural life.

Time it either had the skids under it or that there is a big change in its style.

Les

Spyd

The Stig isn't a presenter.