Jeremy Clarkson Is Still Due To Present "Have I Got News For You"

Hat Trick Productions, the show’s production company, has told BuzzFeed News that Clarkson is still due to present the programme on BBC One.

The BBC faces further embarrassment after reps for Have I Got News For You confirmed that Jeremy Clarkson is still due to host the show.

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A week ago, the presenter was effectively sacked from Top Gear. But BuzzFeed News has confirmed that he is still set to appear on the BBC on Friday 24 April as guest host of the panel show.

Clarkson has guest-hosted the show before and was first confirmed as a presenter on 17 March. Jimmy Mulville, the head of production company Hat Trick, told the Radio Times : "I don't think the BBC know that he is due to be on. It would be great. Have I Got News for You tries to have a bit of mischief so we will see if he can come on."

Mulville was speaking days before the BBC finally decided not renew Clarkson's contract, after an inquiry confirmed that he had subjected Oisin Tymon, a Top Gear producer, to "an unprovoked physical and verbal attack".

On Wednesday, BBC Worldwide and the event company Brand Events announced that a series of live shows with the presenters of Top Gear is still due to take place, but with any BBC material removed and the show now called Clarkson, Hammond and May Live.

BuzzFeed News has approached the BBC for comment.

LINK: The BBC Has Sacked Jeremy Clarkson From “Top Gear”