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The producer who turned Top Gear into a global success has launched an attack on the BBC for 'misunderstanding' host Jeremy Clarkson, and trying to 'f*** over' the TV star and his co-hosts.
Andy Wilman, who is the former executive producer of the long-running car series, accused the broadcaster's bosses of 'tarring them with the same brush as comic Bernard Manning'.
Bernard, who died aged 76 in 2007, was banned from performing at venues around the country for controversial jokes that saw him accused of sexism and racism.
Andy, 63, hit out that the a small group of people at the BBC compared the hosts to the seventies comedian over some 'politically incorrect comments' on Top Gear.
And while the producer feels remorseful for the remarks that offended viewers, Andy, who is releasing a memoir, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, admitted he still held some anger towards the broadcaster the show was brought to an end.
Especially for what he suggests was the broadcaster attempting to secretly split up the trio of hosts behind-the-scenes after offensive remarks.
He told The Sun: 'We’d said sorry, but you got that sense that they were going, "That’s not enough"... I thought it was a Bernard Manning brush going on.'
Trouble began brewing for the show's stars after a joke aired while the hosting trio filmed on a bridge they built in Thailand in 2014 - using the derogatory term 'slope' to describe people of East or South East Asian descent.
It followed on from a formal apology made by Jeremy, 65, and his co-stars just years earlier after the group characterised Mexican people as lazy.
While Andy explained they did receive 'support' within the BBC and that the show's compliance department had been on his side, a probe into the show was still launched.
The nail in the coffin for Jeremy came in 2015 when a complaint was reported to BBC management that he had been involved in a physical and verbal incident with producer Oisin Tymon.
Andy added of the attitude towards former host Jeremy, who had his contract with the BBC terminated in 2015 following the incident, continued: 'I think people totally misunderstand Jeremy... He's never an angry person.'
He further hit out at the BBC's attitude towards Jeremy's co-hosts, Richard Hammond and James May, after they got rid of Jeremy, trying to 'split' the trio up after Jeremy's departure.
Andy said: 'They thought they could just blithely go, "Right, let’s put a wedge between them, and then we’ll have two of them and we’ll f*** them over."'
The Daily Mail has contacted the BBC for comment.
After Jeremy's departure, co-stars James, 62, and Richard, 55, stuck alongside him in signing a deal for The Grand Tour with Amazon's Prime Video - which Andy was a producer on.
During its time on air, Top Gear gained a Guinness World Record for the most-watched factual programme in the world in 2013 thanks to its 350 million views across 212 countries.
And it welcomed guests including Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Rowan Atkinson, Ryan Reynolds and Dame Helen Mirren.
While reboot The Grand Tour was popular among viewers, it did not share the same level of success as the BBC's Top Gear.
Top Gear was then brought back to screens with a new panel of hosts including Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc, before the BBC unveiled a new presenting lineup with former cricketer Freddie Flintoff, presenter Paddy McGuinness and journalist Chris Harris.
The show came to an end when Freddie, 47, narrowly escaped death and was left with severe facial injuries in a car crash while filming for the show.
Despite the horror crash, Andy insisted that he felt the show 'could return' with work to make the 'dangers levels acceptable', and if there 'was a will' from the BBC to bring it back.
In 2024, the BBC said that it would not return 'for the foreseeable future'.
The broadcaster said at the time there would be 'more to say in the near future' - but no further announcement on Top Gear has ever come.
Andy now works on Jeremy's Prime Video series Clarkson's Farm, and has been focusing on the sixth series of the popular format.
It comes after Andy claimed there was a time when bosses at the BBC wanted one of the trio gone because they were three middle-aged white men.
He claimed he was then asked by an executive: 'So, how about replacing one of your line-up with a young . . . black or Asian presenter,' in extracts from his book obtained by The Sun.
Andy replied: 'So hang on, you've got young black and Asian viewers who have chosen, seemingly quite happily, to watch three white, middle-class, middle-aged men doing what they do, and in response to that, we should now break that team up — the one they enjoy watching — and give them something they're most likely not asking for?
'Isn't that sort of patronising to . . . young black and Asian viewers?'
All series of Top Gear are available to stream on BBC iPlayer.