LONDON, March 25 — Media reported today that Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC investigation concluded he did attack a producer on the programme.

According to the Telegraph, Lord Hall, the Director General of the BBC, is expected to announce his decision on Wednesday after considering the findings of an internal investigation.

The report went on to add that Clarkson, 54, will be thanked for his work on the hugely popular motoring show, but will be told such behaviour cannot be tolerated at the Corporation.

An online petition demanding the BBC reinstate Clarkson had attracted 442,610 supporters from all around the globe.

“The BBC will become irrelevant very quickly in the USA without Top Gear; be careful,” wrote one signatory Fred Bertsch from Denver, Colorado.

“Jeremy Clarkson ist Top Gear!!!!” said Austrian Karl-Johann Reitmaier.

Clarkson became the popular face of Top Gear by mixing a passion for cars with blunt banter and swagger that has offended groups ranging from mental health charities and cyclists to Mexico’s London ambassador.

The presenter and his employers have been forced to apologise on a number of occasions. 

He wrote in his Sun newspaper column in May that he had been told by the BBC that if he made “one more offensive remark, anywhere at any time, I will be sacked”.