Freddie and his £9million

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Now this is a bit of a rant........

So poor old Freddie (Andrew) gets a 'work related injury' and receives a £9,000,000 payout from the production company who makes Top Gear.

Firstly...I thought the BBC made Top Gear, not a third party production company. £9,000,000 equates to around 56,000 household's licence fee for a year. No wonder the BBC can't afford to make any new programmes when they are paying these production companies enough money that they can even afford to pay Freddie that sort of money.

Secondly......The BBC is a solely public funded company. So is the NHS. The NHS' compensation going rate for a child needing full life care due to clinical negligence is a round £900,000.

The world has just gone seriously wrong somewhere! :(
 
Freddie's injuries were quite horrific, even after a period of nearly one year, they still look bad. "Life-altering" so he may find it difficult to work again and the pain and anguish he must have endured by both himself and his relatives should be taken into account. I suspect he has had multiple surgeries on his face. On a long-term basis, it has ruined his life so perhaps 9 million is a not unreasonable figure.
 
Was there a case of negligence? I haven’t seen the details of the accident but wonder if there was a clear fault case or just an accident due to his lack of skills
 
You've been on TwXtter again haven't you.
BBC Studios makes Top Gear and is a commercial production company not funded by the license fee.
 
I would also guess that the compensation is paid by the production company's insurance.
 
Pondrew said:
Now this is a bit of a rant........

So poor old Freddie (Andrew) gets a 'work related injury' and receives a £9,000,000 payout from the production company who makes Top Gear.

Firstly...I thought the BBC made Top Gear, not a third party production company. £9,000,000 equates to around 56,000 household's licence fee for a year. No wonder the BBC can't afford to make any new programmes when they are paying these production companies enough money that they can even afford to pay Freddie that sort of money.

Secondly......The BBC is a solely public funded company. So is the NHS. The NHS' compensation going rate for a child needing full life care due to clinical negligence is a round £900,000.

The world has just gone seriously wrong somewhere! :(
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At the risk of really scraping the barrel, I quote the Sun newspaper 'the settlement was based on the ex-England cricketer missing out on two years of earnings'.

Irrespective of the 'who pays for it' debate, it does at least make sense that a claim would be based on the claimants missed earnings as a consequence of an accident at work, no?
 
Would the company not have public liability insurance for this sort of thing or have their 'Stars' sign some sort of waiver.

If £9m represents 2 years loss of earnings, more fool them for paying an out of work / retired cricketer so much.
 
Pondrew said:
£9,000,000 equates to around 56,000 household's licence fee for a year.
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3 seconds Googling gets you:

"The payout will not be funded by the TV licence fee, as BBC Studios is a commercial arm of the broadcaster."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67107708
 
SV8Predator said:
seconds Googling gets you:

"The payout will not be funded by the TV licence fee, as BBC Studios is a commercial arm of the broadcaster.
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OK Mr Happy, so who pays for 'BBC studios' to sell the programme to the BBC? Possibly the licence fee payers? Just throwing it out there!

Top Gear is aired on the BBC, so one way or another, is paid for by the licence fee. By being a 'third party' production, it will inevitably cost more aswell!

God, there are some very naive people about! :)
 
Pondrew said:
SV8Predator said:
seconds Googling gets you:

"The payout will not be funded by the TV licence fee, as BBC Studios is a commercial arm of the broadcaster.
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OK Mr Happy, so who pays for 'BBC studios' to sell the programme to the BBC? Possibly the licence fee payers? Just throwing it out there!

Top Gear is aired on the BBC, so one way or another, is paid for by the licence fee. By being a 'third party' production, it will inevitably cost more aswell!

God, there are some very naive people about! :)
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If there's no content to sell to the BBC, then there's going to be no payment for that non-existent content.
 
Top Gear is also sold to many other countries, up to 214 different territories, all paying to broadcast the show. So technically, yes we as license fee payers will have contributed in part to the £9m payout, just not all of it.
 
I wonder how much Hammond got paid when his electric supercar caught fire after rolling down that hill. Grand Tour or Topgear can’t remember.
 
i can't believe they didn't have insurance for these things.

imagine how much jeremy clarkson was insured for when he was presenting top gear. if he'd have had an accident like freddy had the payout would have been 10 times that.
 
Nanu said:
Would the company not have public liability insurance for this sort of thing or have their 'Stars' sign some sort of waiver.

If £9m represents 2 years loss of earnings, more fool them for paying an out of work / retired cricketer so much.
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If they signed a waiver maybe they would be more careful.
 
If a peasant like me can relate to a 9m Payout for life changing injuries, then he deserves every penny. Stupid idiot was aloud to do it in this H&S age. Hope he recovers enough to enjoy the dosh and a decent life in the future. :thumbsup:
 
Side note- does anyone actually know what the circumstances were around the accident? What was he trying to do, what went wrong etc?
 
Ed Doe said:
Side note- does anyone actually know what the circumstances were around the accident? What was he trying to do, what went wrong etc?
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Apparently he was bowling along quite the thing, hit a bit of a sticky wicket and ended up in the gully.
 
Scubaregs said:
Ed Doe said:
Side note- does anyone actually know what the circumstances were around the accident? What was he trying to do, what went wrong etc?
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Apparently he was bowling along quite the thing, hit a bit of a sticky wicket and ended up in the gully.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :thumbsup:
 
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