Gear we go again: Clarkson returns to Top Gear weeks after being axed

        REBEL: Jezza was asked back by the BBC – to finish what he started [GETTY]

Controversial Clarkson, 55, was ousted by directorgeneral Tony Hall after punching producer Oisin Tymon in March.
But Jezza went back to the Beeb earlier this month to record a voice-over to go with footage filmed for Top Gear before he was axed.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "He came into the studio the week before last. He didn't get paid to do it."

THEY'RE BACK: Jezza, James May and Richard Hammond get back behind the wheel for one final race in the trailer for the new Top Gear special [BBC]

She added: "Even though this happened after his contract was not renewed, it falls under his old contract.
"He is not banned from appearing on the BBC."
It is understood the unfinished material – which would have been spread across two episodes – will be packaged together into a one-off special to be shown in the next few weeks.
But, to make it work, Clarkson had to be recalled to provide the commentary.
A trailer for the special shows the three men racing across countryside and smashing up caravans in true Top Gear style.

In the special episode, Clarkson and his co-hosts become "lifestyle leisure enthusiasts".

Given a budget of £250 each, the trio buy three used "lifestyle" SUVs - a Vauxhall Frontera, a Jeep Cherokee and a Mitsubishi Shogun - and then embark on a series of challenges that include battling with the Stig's "leisure activity cousin" and a race in which the loser has to deliver a nerve-racking after-dinner speech.