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The Guardian - UK
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Top Gear ending? Not unless Clarkson gets hit by a meteorite

Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson: 'I can assure everyone I'll be back in November doing Top Gear.' Photograph: Martin Godwin

Jeremy Clarkson had Top Gear fans worried on Sunday night when he closed the show with the words, "This feels like an ending". The comment followed a tribute to the V12 Aston Martin Vantage, but many viewers took it as a coded message that the gas-guzzling BBC2 favourite was about to take the key out of the ignition for the last time. But petrolheads need fret no longer. The show will return unless Clarkson "gets struck by a giant meteorite or spontaneously combusts", according to the big man himself. "I can assure everyone I'll be back in November doing Top Gear," he tells the Sun. "We're filming the next series and already have several episodes in the can. I couldn't think of anything I'd want to do more." Fire up the Vantage!

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