LONDON, England - Suspended Top Gear TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson reported his heated row with a producer to his BBC bosses because he feared details of the incident would be leaked, reports said on Friday.
As indeed they were...
The Guardian and other newspapers reported that Clarkson told staff working on the hugely popular motoring programme that he had told Danny Cohen, the BBC's director of television, about the late-night incident - described initially as "a fracas" - at the Simonstone Hall Hotel near Hawes, a 13th century village in northern Yorkshire, and came into the bar at around 9.30pm after a day of filming last Wednesday.