Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has said he is glad that he left the BBC car show before it became “tired and boring”.

Speaking at a talk in London last night, Clarkson also admitted he still make money from Top Gear every time the BBC recommissions it, and thus denied claims that he had been trying to sabotage the work of new host Chris Evans.

The Sun reports that at the talk at the China Exchange, Clarkson said: “To be honest, I think we would have stayed at the BBC and then the show would have got tired and boring, eventually we would have piloted it into a hillside and that would have been the end.”