article_snippet: Alan Yentob’s extraordinary declaration on Newsnight on Wednesday was an attempt to prove what an inclusive organisation BBC BBC is, amid concern that a huge swathe of BBC audience will stop tuning in now Jeremy Clarkson has been axed from Top Gear.
article_snippet: Alan Yentob was appearing on Newsnight to defend the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson, whose contract is not being renewed after Alan Yentob attacked Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon .
article_snippet: Presenter Emily Maitlis asked if getting rid of the Top Gear host would make it harder for the BBC to reach ‘a demographic... increasingly disregarded’ by a corporation which ‘plays largely to the metropolitan elite’.
article_snippet: Alan Yentob admitted that #Clarkson' marked ‘a bad day’ for the BBC.
article_snippet: However, Alan Yentob refused to rule out Clarkson returning to the BBC.
article_snippet: Clarkson returning to the BBCattacked Mr Tymon (pictured) leaving Mr Tymon (pictured) in such a state that Mr Tymon (pictured) later took Mr Tymon (pictured) to A&E .
article_snippet: the BBC the BBC has said that Top Gear will continue without Clarkson, but there are doubts as to whether co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May will return .
highlights_snippet: Alan Yentob was appearing on Newsnight over Jeremy Clarkson row .
  