Jeremy Clarkson 'Threatens Legal Action' After BBC Comparison With Paedophile Jimmy Savile
The fight between Jeremy Clarkson and the BBC looks set to continue, after a senior BBC source made extraordinary comments to the Mail on Sunday. The source compared the way people are supporting him before hearing the facts to the way the actions of paedophile Jimmy Savile were kept quiet - after his death in 2011, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against the former star of children’s TV.
The executive likened 36-year-old Tymon’s position to that of Savile’s victims, who feared they would not be believed while he was alive.
‘The pressure this guy [Tymon] is under is so Savilesque in a way,’ he said, adding that Clarkson’s support from high-level politicians recalled the way Savile was once defended. ‘If you look at what David Cameron says or what [former Culture and Media Secretary] Maria Miller says and you swap Clarkson for Savile, you get this: David Cameron is effectively saying that Savile’s a real talent, Maria Miller saying Savile will be Savile.’
The comments are awful for two main reasons. First of all, to compare someone who got punched to people who were sexually abused as children massively understates the severity of the crimes those victims faced. Furthermore, to compare Clarkson to a paedophile in any way is hugely slanderous to the presenter.
With the ‘fracas’ investigation underway, BBC chiefs will no doubt want to deal with these remarks as quickly as possible.
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