article_snippet: Other sources told this newspaper that Jeremy Clarkson had not been drinking – and that the row was not entirely about the lack of a hot meal at the end of a day’s filming.
article_snippet: Contrary to what has been widely reported, sources in the Clarkson camp insisted the presenter had not been drinking beforehand – although co-presenter James May downed a bottle of white wine.
article_snippet: Neither did Jeremy Clarkson explode with anger at the hotel just because Jeremy Clarkson couldn’t have an expensive steak.
article_snippet: Yes, it is true that there was no supper but Jeremy Clarkson was angry
article_snippet: because they didn’t have enough producers during the day and it made filming extremely difficult,’ said one source.
article_snippet: On board, May drank a bottle of wine, but Jeremy Clarkson drank nothing as Jeremy Clarkson had to work on a script later that evening.
article_snippet: Filming had been fraught because of the shortage of producers and Jeremy Clarkson was tired, annoyed and hungry, having had nothing to eat all day, the sources say.
article_snippet: And it was against this background, that they arrived at the hotel to be told there was no hot supper.