We study the jumps of topological entropy for $C^r$ interval or circle maps. We prove in particular that the topological entropy is continuous at any $f\in C^r\left([0,1]\right)$ with $h_{top}\left(f\right)>\left(log⁺\right||f^{\text{'}}{\left|\right|}_{\infty })/r$. To this end we study the continuity of the entropy of the Buzzi-Hofbauer diagrams associated to $C^r$ interval maps.