TV presenter gives up secrecy bid

TOP Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has abandoned an injunction to prevent allegations about his private life being published.

The gagging order banned the publication of personal details, including a claim by his first wife Alexandra Hall that they had an affair after he married his current wife, Frances.

The BBC star, who took out the injunction at the High Court last autumn, decided to lift it because it was “pointless” and “injunctions don’t work”.

It is claimed that the order banned the media from reporting “sexual or other intimate acts or dealings” between Clarkson and his first wife as well as the Top Gear presenter’s “private thoughts and feelings, his health and other financial affairs”.

Clarkson, 51, said his ex-wife was now free to tell her story, adding that “people can either believe it or not, it’s up to them”.