Clarkson Has Mocked A Series Of Bizarre Tabloid Allegations Involving Gravy And Helicopters
According to the Mail, I once demanded a helicopter to get me some gravy. Where do they come up with this nonsense?
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 7, 2015To be clear, I've also never demanded a game of monopoly or a Range Rover so I could "look at it".
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 7, 2015On Monday the Mail Online - a publication not exactly known for being a bastion of accurate reporting - published a bizarre set of claims levelled at ex-Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson.
The report cites Ed Coutts, owner of a luxury hotel in Waiheke Island, New Zealand, who has claimed that Clarkson set out a series of peculiar demands during his stay. Apparently, he’d insisted that a particular type of gravy mix, a packet of cigarettes and the board game ‘Monopoly’ should be brought to him via helicopter, since the nearest shop was some distance away.
The story seems to be coming from a Kiwi who's promoting his business by making stuff up about people who use it.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 7, 2015My advice to anyone wishing to visit Waiheke Island is: don't.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 7, 2015Since all this sounds like something you might have read on The Onion (before you even get to the bit that alleges Clarkson also asked for a Range Rover Sport with no mileage, just so he could “look at it”), it’s really not worth taking seriously. It didn’t take long for Jeremy to respond either, with the 55-year-old taking to Twitter to rubbish and mock the claims.
It wasn't while we were filming for the BBC though. So none of you should be that bothered.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 7, 2015I did ask the helicopter pilot if he'd get me a game of Risk. Much better than Monopoly. He offered to get gravy as well. I declined.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 7, 2015Back in the real world, the man has been busy filming with fellow ex-Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May for a new Amazon Prime motoring show, which will air next year. The show he departed post-fracas, meanwhile, will return with Chris Evans at the helm on 8 May 2016.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I also heard that he asked for 100 hammers just to play with
99 hammers on the wall
Take one down pass it around
98 hammers on the wall…..
#JustClarksonthings
I happen to live in New Zealand and know for a fact that at certain times, a helicopter is the only way to get gravy to Waiheke Island and who wouldn’t want a black-on-black Range Rover Sport to just look at, they’re gorgous. So really I’m not sure what everyones problem is.
So yesterday CT linsk to an article with these crazy accusations in it, now it links to JC’s response to those accusations by saying it’s nonsense.
That was an external link posted by a CT user, we didn’t run the story or promote it anywhere
I live in NZ and our national paper (poorly edited tabloid toilet rag) is making it sound like he just criticised our country out of nowhere and for no reason.
You just wrote an apt description of every national paper on the face of the earth…
Some say…
The journalist is doing it wrong, he has to start with “some say”
But he isn’t talking about The Stig
He also didn’t know anything about FKL plate on 928
Some say that he asked a helicopter to deliver his gravy, others that he wanted a brand new Range Rover just to look at. All whe know he punched a produced in the face!!!!