If any of Maker Studios’ stable of YouTube stars behaved like Jeremy Clarkson they would be “excluded” immediately, according to the Disney-owned multichannel network’s international president René Rechtman.

The BBC suspended the Top Gear presenter on Tuesday after he was allegedly involved in a “fracas” with a producer.

Asked how the studio would respond to one of its stars behaving in a similar way, Rechtman said: “If somebody did what probably happened the other day, we would exclude them from our network right away, it’s just not acceptable.

“Anything to do with racism, sexism or violence is not acceptable. All our channels are professional channels. We need to use that content around the world. It’s not acceptable.”

Maker’s stars include YouTube personalities with huge personal followings, such as Swedish 25-year-old PewDiePie, who has more than 35 million subscribers on the video network and regularly racks up more than 20m views for each video. PewDiePie, who’s real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, reportedly made $4m (£2.6m) in ad revenue in 2013.

Disney acquired Maker in a deal worth at least $500m in March last year. Maker works with 55,000 contributors, some of whom count their fans in the tens of millions.

Rechtman, who was speaking at the Digital Media Strategies conference in London, said of Clarkson: “He has so much power on his own he reminds me of some of our very powerful talent. We never ever get involved in their programming, their editorial, never. We never force them to change style, we never force them to work with any of our brands.

“We give them extreme freedom, that creates friction sometimes but it gives them a lot of responsibility as well.”