Get all the jungle gossip with our regular email newsletter Yes please! Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Noel Edmonds has shared his views on how the BBC handled Jeremy Clarkson.

Noel believes the way Clarkson was treated during the Top Gear saga was a complete fiasco.

“It was just yet another example of extraordinarily bad management that wouldn’t be tolerated in a private company,” says Noel.

“It is difficult to think of a better way of handling something more badly.

“You’ve got the big wigs saying no one is bigger than the BBC and they pull the show, denying the viewers the chance to see whatever they’d shot.

Despite having talked about buying the BBC – something he would still like to do – the multi-millionaire is a critic of the corporation.

He thinks it is still too bloated and needs to be cut down or risks being “crushed by Apple”, suggesting two radio stations is enough.

(Image: Empics)

Having seen what the TV industry can do to people Edmonds is also concerned about one of his successors as host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Chris Evans.

He’s worried that by hosting Top Gear – despite telling Noel he wouldn’t be following in Jeremy Clarkson’s footsteps – Chris is spreading himself too thinly.

Noel says: “It’s interesting. I was a guest on Chris’s boat at the Monaco Grand Prix and we had a chat. Chris said he wouldn’t touch Top Gear with a barge pole.

“He said how tired he was, and he did look tired. And so I was stunned when within weeks he not only had shown interest but accepted the job.

Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now

“I just hope he’s not taking on too much. He’s a brilliant talent.

“He’s also a mercurial talent in a Kenny Everett and Clarkson mould.

“He will need to be managed and supported otherwise he could just burn out and make some shocking mistake.

“I hope it works out for him. I’m a big fan of his.”

Noel has been on Deal or No Deal for almost a decade, but his next contract with Ch4 is yet to be negotiated.

He admits: “I have no idea about its future. But we have now done 10 years and will have our anniversary show in October.”

The channel has enough episodes to last until next summer, so there is still plenty of time for bosses to offer a new deal.

And they’d be stupid to ignore a TV legend who the current generation are still borrowing ideas from (according to the legend himself).

It's hard to think of much in life that’s more down to earth than the comfy jumpers that Noel Edmonds became famous for.

But when he’s not hosting Ch4 show Deal or No Deal, he is operating on a far more, well, spiritual plane.

In the past he talked about having two orbs of energy bouncing on his shoulders containing the souls of his dead parents.

And he spoke about how he got his life under control using cosmic ordering, after asking the planets for help.

His latest alternative take on life involves electro-magnetism and how we’re messing up the world with all the electricity, phone signals and Wi-Fi wafting around our ears.

In an extraordinary interview, the 66-year-old puts many of the planet’s woes down to an electro-magnetic imbalance around us.

“Everything is about energy,” says the former king of Saturday night TV.

“We’re surrounded by electro mist, fog and smog. We’re covering ourselves in the wrong sorts of electro-magnetism.

“These idiot politicians who talk about climate change, for goodness sake, do they really think little us can do anything about it? No, of course not.

“The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it’s not Aids, it’s electro smog.

Today he’s talking from his home in France, where he is taking a break.

For Noel, his success is all about balance and that positivity.

“People who do these things have an imbalance in their energy system. Positivity can be measured scientifically.

“The man who shot the lion, this is not a threat, this is science, will have karma.

"Something is going to happen to that guy because what he did was so utterly negative. The energy he poured out left such a big gap, negative energy will pour into him.

“Every single human being can achieve a perfect vibrational balance between their positive and negative energy. I believe it is possible to retune people.”