Video · Jeremy Clarkson Claims BBC Exec Offered Return to Top Gear

The BBC asked Jeremy Clarkson to return as Top Gear host but he turned it down because someone at the corporation had compared him to Jimmy Savile, it emerged last night.
The 55-year-old former presenter said he had been asked by a senior executive to return to the motoring show but he declined the offer.
He told The Sun, “after I’d been compared to Jimmy Savile by someone from the BBC and it was splashed all over a Sunday newspaper, how could I go back?
Clarkson, who was sacked by the BBC earlier this year after assaulting a Top Gear producer, said: “I had a meeting with a BBC executive last week and they asked if I’d come back to Top Gear.
A BBC spokesman said: “We haven’t offered another Top Gear contract and the BBC had placed on record its thanks to Jeremy for his broadcasting on the programme and wish him well for the future.”