Five things worth sharing from the last week or so, brought to you by a different member of the Browser Media team every Friday.
This week’s My Five is by Victoria.
1. Jeremy Clarkson Sacked from the BBC
Top Gear fans went into meltdown on social media this week after Jezza Clarkson was sacked from the BBC for punching a co-worker.
The official investigation stated that:
“On 4 March 2015 Oisin Tymon was subject to an unprovoked physical and verbal attack by Jeremy Clarkson. During the physical attack Oisin Tymon was struck, resulting in swelling and bleeding to his lip. The verbal abuse was sustained over a longer period, both at the time of the physical attack and subsequently”.
Top Gear is still set to continue without Clarkson, and there has been speculation about who will be brought into replace him. Chris Evans, Suzi Perry and Steve Coogan have been hotly tipped, but this the is one I’d like to see.
2. Richard the Third was a Rubbish King
He was. So rubbish in fact, that everyone uses his name as Cockney Rhyming Slang in reference to fecal matter.
About a year ago, I watched a Channel 4 documentary called ‘The King in the Car Park’, and when they excavated his remains, this woman called Phillipa Langley made a right hoo-hah about putting a flag over him, and she cried and alsorts. I’m still not sure why. And then, right at the end of the show, forensic historians worked out what his face would have looked like, and recreated it. I thought it was rubbish. It reminded me of that bit in ‘Hello’ by Lionel Richie where the blind lady makes Lionel’s head, and it’s massive and weird looking.
Anyway, old King Richard is getting re-buried in quite a mad blinging style, which for a King who was only on the throne for 2 years who also allegedly starved his two young nephews to death, I just think, why bother? He was a bastard.
I think