Fiona Bruce has become a mainstay on the BBC, cementing her role as a figurehead for the broadcaster through her various long-standing appearances on primetime shows. She is best known for her roles on BBC One’s Question Time and the Antiques Roadshow.

Throughout her career, she has worked with many famous faces including several prime ministers and MPs, as well as TV royalty and Hollywood favourites. But there are a few famous faces she hasn’t got on well with in the past. Back in 2007, the veteran broadcaster appeared on Top Gear where she took on host Jeremy Clarkson – and it’s fair to say she was not impressed with his compliments on her “nice bum”.

During her first appearance, she shared a lift with the motoring journalist and had to push him out when he got stuck in a Peel P50 – the world’s smallest car production car to work. As she was walking away, Clarkson quietly muttered: “She has got quite a nice bottom. I said that out loud, didn’t it?”

Although she was blissfully unaware of the comment at the time, when she returned to the programme the following year alongside Kate Silverton, she made sure to get her own back.

In the segment known as the Star in a Reasonably Sized Car, she got her own back on the host, who was later sacked from the BBC show. She slapped Clarkson’s bottom and added that it “needs a bit of work”, but that wasn’t all.

Fiona later stood in for Clarkson on his Sunday Times car review column and described it as the ultimate revenge for what he said about her. She cheekily began the column: “[I’m] Perching my bottom, nice or otherwise, on his patch.”

But it appears as though her derriere had a lasting effect on Brits when she was awarded female Rear of the Year two years later, which she simply called “demeaning”.

Years later, the broadcaster was asked about her altercation with the Grand Tour star by the Radio Times, but she quickly shut down the conversation. When the publication asked her about smacking the dad-of-four, she fumed: “Don’t get me involved in that!”