Jeremy Clarkson

At 64 years old, Jeremy Clarkson has this physical status:

Jeremy Charles Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist, and author who specializes in motoring.

He is best known for co-presenting Top Gear, from 2002 to 2015, as well as The Grand Tour with Richard Hammond and James May.

He also contributes to The Sunday Times and The Sun's weekly column. Clarkson rose to public prominence as a host of Top Gear's first appearance in 1988 after a career as a local journalist in Northern England.

He has been a public figure since the mid-1990s, appearing on British television regularly hosting his own shows for BBC and appearing on other programs as a guest on other shows.

Clarkson has also produced films and books on topics such as history and engineering as well as motoring.

Clarkson hosted the first series of Robot Wars in 1998, and from 1998 to 2000, he hosted his own talk show. After an assault on a Top Gear producer while filming on location, the BBC decided not to renew Clarkson's deal with the company in 2015.

Clarkson and his Top Gear co-presenters and producer Andy Wilman formed the production company W. Chump & Sons in 2005, which was the first time Clarkson and his co-presenters and producer Andy Wilman developed The Grand Tour for Prime Video.

Clarkson has been hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? since 1992, replacing former host Chris Tarrant. His scholarly but amusing writing style and presentation style have all triggered public reactions.

His activities, both privately and as a Top Gear host, have resulted in public chastisation from the media, politicians, pressure groups, and the general.

In addition, he has a large fanbase, being credited with Top Gear's resurrection as one of the BBC's most popular shows.

Early life

Clarkson was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, and the uncle of Shirley Gabrielle Clarkson (1934-2014), a scholar, and Edward Grenville Clarkson (1932–1994), a traveling salesman. His parents, who ran a tea cosy shop, knew their son's name in advance for private schools but had no idea how they would pay the tuition. Clarkson and his sister Joanna made two Paddington Bear stuffed toys for him right before his admission. These were so popular that they began selling them throughout the industry. On his discovery of the bears, Michael Bond took steps through his solicitors because they were manufacturing and selling the bears without regard to intellectual property rights. Edward Clarkson travelled to London to speak with Bond's solicitor. He met Bond in the lift, and the two struck up an immediate friendship. Bond granted the Clarksons the privilege to practice bear rights around the world, and the family sold them to the UK's then-leading toystore, Hamleys. The Clarksons were able to pay Jeremy's tuition to Hill House School in Doncaster, Doncaster, and later Repton School, thanks to their income from his service.

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He was suspended from Repton School for "drinking, smoking, and generally being a nuisance of himself," according to his own account. He graduated with a B and two U (fail) ratings at A level. Clarkson, a Formula One engineer and former Top Gear Executive Producer Andy Wilman, attended Repton.

In a BBC radio Children's Hour serial adaptation of Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings novels, he played Atkinson, a preparatory school student.

Personal life

Clarkson married Alex Hall in 1989, but she later left him for one of his acquaintances after six months. In May 1993, he married Frances Cain, the niece of VC recipient Robert Henry Cain, in Fulham. The couple and their three children lived in Chipping Norton, Cotswolds. Clarkson has been described as a Chipping Norton immigrant. Clarkson's second wife bought him a Mercedes-Benz 600 because he was known for buying him car-related stuff for Christmas 2007. Clarkson and Cain divorced in 2014.

After reports that dogs assaulted and killed sheep on the property, Clarkson was embroiled in a long-running court fight over access to a "perpetual path" across the grounds of his second home, a converted lighthouse, on the Isle of Man between 2005 and 2010. After being chased into the sea by a dog let loose its lead, Clarkson and his wife believe four sheep were intentionally killed. After a public inquiry by the Isle of Man government, he lost the lawsuit, and he was told to re-open the footpath. The Isle of Man High Court confirmed the decision.

Clarkson is a fan of the Progressive Rock band Genesis and appeared at the band's reunion concert at Twickenham Stadium in 2007. He also provided sleeve notes for the reissue of the album Selling England by the Pound as part of the Genesis 1970-1975 box set.

Clarkson's first wife was injunctioned in September 2010 in order to discourage her from reporting allegations that their sexual relationship continued after his second marriage (see AMM vs. HXW). In October 2011, he voluntarily lifted the injunction, saying, "Injunctions don't work." On Twitter and the Internet, you can post an injunction against someone or some group, and the people and organization concerned are immediately informed that the injunction and the facts that led to it. It's pointless."

Clarkson has been living in a relationship with Irish-born screenplay writer Lisa Hogan, who appears in his Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm.

He was admitted to hospital after falling sick with pneumonia while on a family holiday in Majorca, Spain, on August 4, 2017; he was being treated in a hospital there. He continued to say that he could "breathe harder and for longer than a non-smoking 40-year-old" and that he had 96 percent capacity for a person his age. "Getting to three-quarters of a million fags has not harmed me in any way." "I have quite literally defied medical science."

Clarkson, who had been suffering from colds since early in January 2021, revealed that he had tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2020.

Clarkson was the subject of a murder probe on Twitter in October 2021, after the hashtag "#RIPJeremyClarkson" became a trending topic in the United Kingdom.

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Career

Clarkson's first job was as a traveling salesman for his parents' company, selling Paddington Bears. He began working as a writer with the Rotherham Advertiser before concentrating on writing for the Rochdale Observer, Wolverhampton Express, and Star, Lincolnshire Life, Shropshire Star and the Associated Kent Newspapers.

In his last column for Top Gear magazine in 2015, he credited the Shropshire Star as his first outlet as a motoring columnist, adding little Peugeots and Fiats to the Shropshire Star and progressing to Ford Granadas and Rovers until, after about seven years, I was allowed to drive an Aston Martin Lagonda." It was ten years ago when I first drove my first Lamborghini.

Clarkson founded the Motor Press Agency (MPA), in which he, alongside fellow motor journalist Jonathan Gill, conducted road tests for local newspapers and automotive magazines. This turned into essays for publications like Performance Car. Since its inception in 1993, he has been writing for Top Gear magazine on a regular basis.

Clarkson wrote for Amstrad Computer User in 1987 and assembled Amstrad CPC game reviews.

Clarkson also writes in The Sun's tabloid newspaper and the broadsheet newspaper The Sunday Times. In The Weekend Australian newspaper, his columns in the Times have been reprinted. He also contributes to the Toronto Star's "Wheels" section. He has written amusing books on cars and other topics, with some of his books being collections of articles that he has written for The Sunday Times.

Clarkson's first big television appearance came as one of the show's older versions, from October 1988 to 3 March 1999. Top Gear's Jon Bentley, a journalist, helped start his television career. Bentley announced that Clarkson would be the show's producer right away, and that he'd like to see the show's producer.

Clarkson then introduced the show's new look from 20 October 2002 to 8 March 2015. He, along with co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond, is credited with the creation of Top Gear, the most watched TV show on BBC Two, which has since been broadcast to over 100 countries around the world. Bedder 6, Clarkson's company that handled product development and international distribution for Top Gear, made more than £149 million in 2012, the first year the Top Gear franchise was fully owned by BBC Worldwide.

Clarkson created the first UK version of Robot Wars. Clarkson's talk show, which aired in the United Kingdom between November 1998 and December 2000, featured guest interviews with artists, politicians, and television stars. Clarkson went on to produce documentaries on non-motoring topics such as history and engineering, but motoring shows and videos continued. Many of his stand-alone shows mimic the appearance and presentation of his newspaper columns and books, as well as the discovery and representation of his other world views, such as in Jeremy Clarkson's "Selecting the Neighbours," as well as his book "Understand the Neighbours."

Clarkson's fashion sense had been branded as that of a market trader, and he was advised not to appear on their fashion makeover show What Not to Wear to avoid being recognized for their all-time worst dressed winner award. Clarkson's attempts to revive Clarkson were turned down, and Clarkson said he'd rather eat his own hair than appear on the show again.

Who Do You Think You Are, the BBC's first series of Who Do You Think You Are? Clarkson's family history was first uncovered in November 2004. It told the tale of John Kilner (1792–1857), the maker of the Kilner jar, a container for preserved fruit.

Clarkson's views are often included on television shows. Clarkson appeared on the light-hearted comedy show Room 101, in which a guest nominates things they dislike in life in order to be consigned to nothingness. Clarkson sent caravans, houseflies, and the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. The mentality of golf clubs, as well as vegetarians, were all discussed. Since 2002, he has appeared on prime time talk shows Parkinson and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. His persona was deemed to fit the model for the series Grumpy Old Men, in which middle-aged men discuss any aspects of modern life that irritate them. Clarkson, one of the most popular guest hosts on the show, has been on Have I Got News for You since the show's topical news panelist Angus Deayton was fired in October 2002. Clarkson has appeared on Question Time, a national affairs television show, twice since 2000. For the first time since his demise, he delivered Have I Got News for You on October 2, 2015, he said.

Clarkson received a BAFTA nomination for Best Entertainment Effort in 2006. Jonathan Ross was able to win the prize. He received the National Television Awards Special Recognition Award in 2007, and reportedly earned £1 million in the same year for his work as a Top Gear host, as well as a further £1.7 million from books, DVDs, and newspaper columns. Clarkson and co-presenter James May were the first people to reach the North Magnetic Pole in a vehicle that was also on display in Top Gear: Polar Special.

When making the 12th series of Top Gear in 2008, he sustained minor injuries to his legs, back, and hand.

He received a £4.8 million dividend and a £8.4 million share buyout from BBC Worldwide in 2014, bringing his total income for the year to more than £14 million.

Clarkson, along with former Top Gear host Richard Hammond and James May, will host a new show on Amazon Prime Video on July 30, 2015. In 2016, the first season was released around the world. Clarkson revealed on his Twitter feed on Monday that the series would be titled The Grand Tour, and that it would air from a different location each week.

Clarkson will host a redesigned version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on March 9, 2018. On ITV, there is a video of it. Chris Tarrant had previously hosted the program.

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