The report stated: “The committee accepted that the remark was exaggerated for comic effect, but believed that some viewers may find this particular remark, taken within the whole context of the exchange, to be a purposeless stereotype.
'The committee concluded that this programme was in breach of the guidelines on harm and offence as the exchanges about facial disfigurement were not editorially justified and did not meet generally accepted standards in the context of their portrayal of a disability.' It upheld the complaint.
Complaints: A member of the public complained
about the 'offensive' remarks after Clarkson likened the shape of a
Prius campervan to someone with 'a growth on their face' and referred to
it as the 'elephant car'
Ruling: Clarkson was cleared by Ofcom earlier
this year of breaching the broadcasting code by watchdog Ofcom over the
same remarks
The real deal: Joseph Merrick was known as the 'Elephant Man' in Victorian times
It is not the first time he has talked himself into trouble.
He was recently criticised by mental health charities after he branded people who throw themselves under trains as 'selfish.'
That came after he was forced to apologise for telling BBC1’s The One Show that striking workers should be shot.
Top Gear has seen more than its share of controversy.
Earlier this year Indian diplomats complained about a special edition of the programme filmed in the country.
The 90-minute India special included a car fitted with a toilet in the boot which Clarkson said was 'perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.'
The BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador last year after remarks made by Clarkson and co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
TOP GEAR IN HOT WATER AGAIN
This is the second time that Top Gear has breached the BBC Trust's guidelines
The first breach was concerning a portrayal of drink-driving during a North Pole trip in 2008.
It followed a complaint from a viewer who criticised the 'blatant use of alcohol while driving' during an episode of the hit BBC1 show.
The programme – which saw presenters James May and Jeremy Clarkson drinking gin and tonic in the cab of a truck – was described as 'grossly irresponsible'.
There has been one Ofcom ruling against Top Gear in 2009. The episode featured a spoof remake of an advertisement for a Volkswagen car which showed a man committing suicide with a gunshot to the head, followed by blood splattering out after the impact.
The scene also included a depiction of the dead man lying in a pool of blood.
The first breach was concerning a portrayal of drink-driving during a North Pole trip in 2008.
It followed a complaint from a viewer who criticised the 'blatant use of alcohol while driving' during an episode of the hit BBC1 show.
The programme – which saw presenters James May and Jeremy Clarkson drinking gin and tonic in the cab of a truck – was described as 'grossly irresponsible'.
There has been one Ofcom ruling against Top Gear in 2009. The episode featured a spoof remake of an advertisement for a Volkswagen car which showed a man committing suicide with a gunshot to the head, followed by blood splattering out after the impact.
The scene also included a depiction of the dead man lying in a pool of blood.
BBC hit-show: Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond, Clarkson and James May
FROM TOILET JOKES TO INSULTING MEXICANS - CLARKSON'S GAFFES
India: 'Everyone who comes here gets the trots'
In 2009, the presenter made a spoof car advert that joked about Germany's invasion of Poland, which led to the Second World War.
Scores of angry viewers complained to the BBC, media regulator Ofcom and on online message boards after for the Volkswagen Scirocco TDI, contained a clip of people in Warsaw panicking and rushing to board trains and buses to escape the city.
Joking about the car's fuel economy, it ended with the tag line: 'Volkswagen Scirocco TDI. Berlin to Warsaw in one tank' - a reference to Adolf Hitler's decision to invade Poland.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot
Jeremy Clarkson was given a 'ticking off' by a BBC boss after using the most offensive swear word to describe Gordon Brown in front of a studio audience.
Outspoken Clarkson previously caused outrage when he described former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who lost his sight in one eye in an accident suffered while playing rugby as a teenager, as a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot.'
Strikers should 'be shot in front of their families'
His
appearance on The One Show in December prompted 32,000 complaints to
the BBC when he said that striking public sector workers should be
'executed in front of their families.'The 'joke' was the third most complained comment of year with over 700 complaints to Ofcom.
Hot water: Clarkson's appearance on The One Show
in which he said striking workers 'should be executed' brought 32,000
complaints
Clarkson also provoked a fresh storm of protest after describing people who kill themselves by jumping under trains as 'selfish'.
In his newspaper column Clarkson wrote that ‘foxy woxy and the birds’ should be left to ‘nibble’ at the ‘gooey parts’ of people who die by jumping in front of trains.
Mexicans have 'no sense of humour'
In an episode of Top Gear last January Clarkson and his co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May's remarks about Mexicans were called 'outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults' by the Mexican ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza.
The trio labelled the country's inhabitants 'lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat'.
'Synchronised swimming is like death of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe'
In January his comments yet again sparked fury when he compared synchronised swimming to the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe.
In a column for The Sun, he said the sport amounted to 'Chinese women in hats, upside down, in a bit of water.'
India: 'Everyone who comes here gets the trots'
Earlier this year Indian diplomats complained about a special edition of the programme filmed in the country.
The 90-minute India special included a car fitted with a toilet in the boot which Clarkson said was 'perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.'
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