Ex ‘Top Gear’ host Clarkson, BBC sued by punched producer

A television producer who was punched by former “Top Gear” presenter Jeremy Clarkson is sueing him and the BBC for racial discrimination, the broadcaster reported today.

Clarkson and BBC representatives attended a hearing Friday at a London employment tribunal with Oisin Tymon which centres on alleged verbal abuse, it said.

Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported at the time that the row was over a missing meal and that Clarkson had called Tymon a “lazy, Irish” expletive.

The BBC’s press office said in a statement today: “We will be responding to this claim but will not be commenting further at this time.” 

Clarkson was dropped from “Top Gear”, the high-profile BBC motoring show which has millions of fans worldwide, after hitting Tymon in March.