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by BookmarkSaver 3886 days ago
He's definitely an asshole, and what he did was unacceptable and deserving of getting fired, but as far as celebrities go he's not that bad and he honestly handled it pretty reasonably. The fact is that he was going to get hired somewhere, and it isn't like this didn't hurt him at all.
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It’s questionable why Amazon would use someone who is best known for punching a producer as public face in all their ads, though.

I’d argue that this – he’s now in ads on every TV channel, every website – is even encouraging people to be more assholes.

Society should discourage people acting as assholes, and this seems like it does the opposite.

According to Wikipedia he "is best known for co-presenting the BBC TV show Top Gear", not punching a producer.