Note to Jeremy Clarkson

[Marymaymay]

Note to Jeremy Clarkson - I have just checked with my husband who was diagnosed with cancer age 27 and told he had a 50/50 chance of living if he had ever punched someone in the face because of this. The answer was no.

I asked him again if following the operation and subsequent treatment which left him unable to walk long distances or up and down stairs, surf, run or do most of the physical things that he loved so much had ever made him want to punch someone in the face. He said no.

I then asked him if the subsequent stays in hospital due to infection and ongoing treatment now, 8 years later plus the disfigurement of his leg from where a tumour the size if a rugby ball was removed have ever made him even think about punching someone in the face. Again the answer was no.

I finally asked him if having to go through and pay for fertility treatment for a longed for child because of his cancer has made him ever want to punch someone in the face. I'm sure you can guess the answer.

So Jeremy, please think twice before using cancer as an excuse for your boorish, loutish behaviour.

There are people all over the world suffering from a cancer diagnosis who have never even considered punching someone in the face over a cold meat platter. Man up.

OP I completely share your views and those of everyone else who has agreed that Clarkson is a real knob who has been building up a long time for this very well-deserved comedown.

Yes he's funny, but thank God they've shown he is not above the law, just because he's a celebrity. How many people gave Jimmy Savile et al their adulation, hiding in plain sight as he was (and others were) for so long?

As a victim of occasional DV (from a Clarkson-worshipping partner who I haven't quite managed to leave yet) I'd like to go on record here as saying that I am absolutely DELIGHTED to see JC finally get his public comeuppance.... along with the important moral message being thereby forcibly conveyed to the similarly 'entitled' male (who I still have to share my life with ATM). About time. I now feel a little bit safer on a daily basis as a consequence.

Here goes the "virtual lynch mob"

First of all I am so sorry OP to hear about your DH - terrible for you and him. V distressing.

And to all those others living with serious illness or in v difficult circumstances - good wishes to you.

But none of this has anything to do with Jeremy Clarkson. It is just an excuse to lay into him and whip up a thread of outrage.

If you want to do outrage think about the 700 drowned immigrants that was the first thing I heard as my radio alarm woke me this morning --or a myriad of other things that we could actively work towards helping to sort out. (Including care for cancer sufferers).

This attacking of a guy who punched someone, ( as thousands of others have in the past week I expect - some of whom will be punished for it, some not), and who has rightly lost his job as a result, is simply self-righteous.

I know this will mean I get attacked for this but really there is so much else we could use all this energy for.

I've never heard of ANY 'celebrity' using a cancer scare as an excuse to
punch someone. I actually is think JC is quite amusing but this tactic from him is just pathetic. He needs to go off and sort himself out.

His raising it and then saying its not an excuse says it all really - of course he is saying it is an excuse. My husband had a cancer scare which coincided with the graduation ceremony and celebration of our dd. We kept absolutely quiet about it, he refrained from punching anyone and we had a lovely day with our family . And it wasn't a scare and he had cancer but he's fine now. I recently had a major health scare ( not cancer related) and it was a hard time waiting for the results but I behaved like a grown up as do most people apart from some jumped up self obsessed celebs like JC

What engeika said. So hiding this thread before it makes me vomit.

derxa no one is saying he is right, just that it is now going too far with thread after thread laying the boot in to a man who has already been punished for his actions. it is about time everyone just dropped it and got on with their lives

Engeika- how pathetic - so it is impossible to have views on JC and care about the immigrants drowning - I have energy to do both and care about a lot more as well and fwiw unlike Tory supporting JC I would support our government taking in more of these poorrefugees and trying to encourage other countries to do the same

fatty I just ignored all the other threads because I didn't care about Top Gear or JC but this is quite a dangerous precedent. People saying that they punched someone because they were worried about cancer is not acceptable.

engeika agree completely. I see comments similar to Clarksons on a regular basis on certain shows from the same faces.

Yet because its not Clarkson the BBC say and do nothing. It comes down to whether the public decide who is on the target list, rather than down to their behaviour.

And no its not just about a punch. Clarkson would have continued in his posts but for all the other incidents, and I think people would admit that.

In the end it came down to the fact that prior to this incident, people were trying to catch Clarkson out at every opportunity. In truth he joked about it and tried to wind people up by doing it even more so he is the architect in his own downfall. BUT the way he was targeted over others was part of the problem. Which is why I say witchhunt.

I think that if what Clarkson did and said in the past was unacceptable then why don't the BBC crack down on similar behaviour because it seems to only apply to Clarkson. And only when they have their hand forced.

I suggest you direct your anger at the BBC rather than Clarkson tbh. They let it all continue and become the monster it did because they didn't address the issue sooner because of the money Top Gear generated.

Clarkson has brought the whole thing back into the public arena.

This thread is here becaue HE started taking about to again!

He is a total twat.

I haven't been able to read what JC put in his column in The Sunday Times where I think he wrote all this.

But picking bits up from other papers online he was told he 'may' have cancer on his tongue and to get it checked out straight away. But he couldn't do that as Top Gear had to be filmed as it always came first.

Other factors affecting things were divorce, bereavement and stress.

He has three children. I feel for them in all this.

www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-car-show-bbc

anyway, he brought it into the open.
Someone somewhere will give him another job - if they havent already.

derxa you are right but JC has said that himself!
I said upthread I understand that feeling as I had a scare but that I never acted on it as it is wrong to hit people. but this is getting out of hand. nobody has to like him and nobody agrees that hitting someone is ok in any circumstances but he has been punished. I am just wondering what more people want

They want his head on a stick outside the BBC I think fatty. the sacking was never going to be enough.

he has a huge fan base, there will be no head on stick.

Phew.

I totally get it that this sort of thing will hit people like OP particularly hard, and equally that Clarkson's conduct was completely inexcusable.

However, saying "X had cancer/a cancer scare, he didn't hit anyone" doesn't take the discussion anywhere, really. It's like saying "I was pregnant, I didn't get weepy and emotional, I didn't throw up all the time, I didn't have to have pain relief in labour, so no-one else should be doing all those things."

Being in a bad place may not be an excuse for behaving badly but by God it's a reason. When I was (thankfully wrongly) diagnosed as behaving a life limiting condition I was all over the place mentally and emotionally. Certainly didn't make me treasure the beautiful fragility of life or make me want to revisit my favourite friends and haunts. Mostly I veered between devastated and furious.

it has gone too far now. he may have a huge fan base, but there are also thousands who can't stand him and start threads such as this on numerous forums
I can't understand why these people are so invested in his life and what happens to him. if you don't like someone you know IRL you avoid situations where you are expected to be around them, have to see them etc. why can't they just ignore JC as they do others?

Bloke' s a complete knob. Always has been.
I've nursed cancer patients for years now and I'm struggling to think of any who've used their disease as an excuse for antisocial behaviour.

The man is an absolute wanker.

paid far too much by the BBC over the years to behave like a teenage boy.

Are we going back to the insults again?

Other insults are available.

I agree OP. I have had friends and relatives who's cancer was terminal. None of them punched anyone, or verbally abused anyone for 30 minutes.

He brought this back into the news... nobody else. He just hasn't had the, 'Oh poor Jezza' reaction he'd imagined.

Sounds like he's having a pity party.

Self pity never looks too good.

Why can't he just say sorry.