article_snippet: BBC BBC said Clarkson, one of the corporation's highest earners, had "a fracas with a BBC producer" in a statement released yesterday.
article_snippet: " his co-host James May tweeted.
article_snippet: Former CNN host Piers Morgan, who has had a series of run-ins with Presenter, also waded in with a cheeky jibe.
article_snippet: In May last year, Presenter asked forgiveness after using a racist term during a taping of the show.
article_snippet: Jeremy Clarkson had mumbled the n-word while reciting a children's nursery rhyme, but that version of the take was never aired.
article_snippet: last year, the show hit the headlines when Argentina complained about a "Top Gear" special filmed in the country in which the number plate H982 FKL was used -- interpreted by some as a reference to the 1982 Falklands War.
article_snippet: Forced to stop filming and leave Argentina, Jeremy Clarkson said on the BBC Newsbeat website that the use of the plate was purely coincidental.
highlights_snippet: Presenter was involved in an encounter with a BBC producer .
  