Jeremy Clarkson’s notorious punch cost the hotel where it happened at least £250,000 in lost business, its managing partner claims.

Boss Jake Dinsdale says the Top Gear presenter turned up ‘drunk’ at Simonstone Hall with James May and Richard Hammond on the night it happened.

He accused the trio - who flew to the North Yorkshire hotel - of “falling out of a helicopter, and stumbling up the garden and into the bar”.

He claimed Clarkson responded to a polite request for a selfie with a fan by telling them to “f*** off” and added insult to injury by smoking in his non-smoking room which cost another £1,000 for cleaning and in lost business.

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The bill was never sent to the BBC for fear it might stop using the four-star hotel in Hawes where it usually spent around £60,000 annually.

But Mr Dinsdale say the Beeb did not returned anyway, depriving the hotel of almost four years’ lucrative income.

He reckons it has lost a further £15,000 as a result of other customers being put off staying there.

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Mr Dinsdale said: “The association with the Clarkson fracas has been very damaging to our business with the last three years being very slow.

"It’s incalculable how much damage it has actually caused.

“The minimum the BBC and other productions companies would have spent a year at the hotel would have been about £60,000.

“The infamous Jeremy Clarkson fracas is still impacting on business and still nothing remotely resembling an apology from the celebrity or organisation.

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"It’s just good manners to apologise even it was a discreet apology.”

Clarkson had to apologise and - along with the BBC- pay £100,000 compensation to producer Oisin Tymon after Clarkson launched an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” on Tymon because he had not arranged to have a hot meal waiting for the three presenters.

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Despite losing his BBC job, Clarkson’s career has flourished, presenting ITV’s ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ as well as Amazon Prime’s ‘The Grand Tour’ which started its third series last night (Fri).

The BBC declined to comment.