It's not me! Jeremy Clarkson denies 'scuppering' Chris Evans on Top Gear despite disasters
JEREMY CLARKSON has denied claims that he has tried to "scupper" Top Gear host Chris Evan's attempt to make the BBC show successful.
Jeremy Clarkson denied 'scuppering' new Top Gear host Chris Evans
The presenter, who was fired from the series last year after his "fracas" with a producer, admitted that he actually gets paid for successors work.
He revealed: "What's very entertaining is that Chris Evans is having a very hard time at the moment as he attempts to put Top Gear back together again.
"It's been suggested that I am behind it, that I am trying to scupper him.
"But I discovered the other day that every time it gets recommissioned I get paid, so that's a curious bit of BBC contract but I wish them all the very best."
Jeremy denied that he has tried to scupper Chris' attempt to make the BBC show succcessful
Chris has replaced Jeremy as presenter of the BBC motoring series
Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team in an off road Merc
Jeremy added that he is glad that he is no longer working on the show and has been given an opportunity to reinvent himself.
Following his departure from the BBC he has been busy filming a new series for Amazon Prime and couldn't be happier with how everything has worked out.
He told The Sun: "To be honest, I think we would have stayed at the BBC and then the show would have got tired and boring, eventually we would have piloted it into a hillside and that would have been the end.
"At the time it was all tragic but now we've been forced to reinvent ourselves and we're online, where you can do anything, like f*** a horse, it's forced all of us to actually concentrate on starting again.
Jeremy noted that Chris is having a 'hard time' as he puts Top Gear back together again
Jeremy is currently trying to think of a name for his new show with Richard and James
"Now we're looking at losing Top Gear as a fantastic thing to happen."
The 56-year-old is currently trying to think of a name for the new motoring series with co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
He said: "We've got seven days to come up with a name - we do a special every year for Christmas and we go off to film that soon, so we have to have a name and register it by then.
"It's going to end up being called Dingleberries or something like that."
Top Gear is expected to return to screens in May, while Clarkson's new show is will air in the autumn.