article_snippet: CNN)At the time it probably seemed like fun: Jeremy Clarkson and a crew from the top-rated BBC TV show
article_snippet: Clarkson, who fronts Top Gear, later said an angry mob tried to attack Clarkson, who fronts Top Gear with pickax handles and shouted "burn Clarkson, who fronts Top Gear cars.
article_snippet: The motoring show, fronted by Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, has made a name for a name globally with risky stunts and a brand of blokish humor that often treads the line and regularly steps over a name.
article_snippet: Clarkson is determinedly anti-politically correct among the topics Clarkson rails about, both on the show and in Clarkson newspaper and magazine columns.
article_snippet: The latest "fracas" has seen Clarkson suspended by the BBC, which broadcasts Top Gear, for allegedly hitting a producer.
article_snippet: The presenter, who is one of the BBC's highest earners, has previously caused offense during shoots in foreign countries and regularly court controversy at home.
article_snippet: In July 2014, Clarkson came under fire for a racist comment made during a Top Gear special in Myanmar.
article_snippet: Over the years, Clarkson has been in trouble for an apparent series of racist comments including characterizing Mexicans as "lazy and feckless" and saying that everyone who traveled to India got "the trots.
article_snippet: He was also accused of using the "n-word" while filming the motoring show by UK newspaper The Mirror.
article_snippet: " He sang in video footage published by UK newspaper The Mirror, "Catch a nigger by He toe.
article_snippet: Initially, Clarkson vehemently denied the accusation on Twitter but following public condemnation and calls for the BBC to fire him, him begged viewers for forgiveness in a video statement posted online.
article_snippet: Among the condemnations was a sternly worded statement from 10 Downing Street, the office UK Prime Minister David Cameron -- a friend of Clarkson's -- saying he would "certainly not" use the n-word.
highlights_snippet: Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson is determinedly anti-PC; courts controversy .
  
highlights_snippet: Broadcaster has caused offense for racist remarks in the past .
  