Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson once won a television job by spending twenty minutes ranting about the awfulness of the Citroen 2CV. That was the screen test. The man watching, a researcher named Jon Bentley, saw something other presenters lacked. Clarkson was funny, opinionated and irreverent, and cars on television suddenly sounded like gossip instead of a lecture.
Clarkson is an English presenter, journalist, farmer and author who built a career around motoring. His programmes have been shown in more than 100 countries. His columns have drawn tens of thousands of complaints. A petition once asked for him to be made Prime Minister, and another asked for the opposite.
How does a boy from Yorkshire, expelled from his boarding school, become one of the most recognisable faces on British television? Why does a man who admits he does not believe everything he writes keep writing it anyway? And what happens to a public figure who thrives on outrage when the outrage finally costs him something real?
On the 11th of April 1960, Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson was born in Sprotbrough, then part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother, Shirley, was a teacher. His father, Edward, was a travelling salesman. Together his parents ran a small business selling tea cosies, and they put their son's name down for private schools with no idea how they would pay.
The answer arrived in the shape of a bear. When Jeremy was 13, his parents made two Paddington Bear toys, one for him and one for his sister Joanna. The toys proved so popular that the family began selling them. Nobody had asked permission from the character's creator.
Michael Bond took action through his solicitors, and Edward Clarkson travelled to London to meet Bond's lawyer. By coincidence he met Bond himself in the lift, and the two struck up an immediate rapport. Bond granted the Clarksons the worldwide licence for the bears. The family eventually sold the business to the toyshop Hamleys, and the income covered the fees at Hill House School in South Yorkshire and later Repton School in Derbyshire.
Repton, by Clarkson's own account, was miserable. He has called himself a "suicidal wreck" there and described extreme bullying. He alleged that he was thrown into an ice plunge pool, dragged from his bed at night and beaten. He says he was expelled for "drinking, smoking and generally making a nuisance of himself", leaving with one C and two U grades at A level.
The school did produce some famous alumni. The future Formula One engineer Adrian Newey was there, and so was Andy Wilman, who would later become a Top Gear executive producer. Before his voice broke, Clarkson also played a schoolboy named Atkinson in a BBC radio Children's Hour serial based on Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings novels.
His first job after school was in the family firm, travelling the country to sell the very bears that had paid for Repton.
The Rotherham Advertiser was where Clarkson trained as a journalist. He went on to write for the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express and Star, Lincolnshire Life, the Shropshire Star and the Associated Kent Newspapers. In his final column for Top Gear magazine in 2015, he credited the Shropshire Star as his first motoring outlet. "I started small," he wrote, "with little Peugeots and Fiats." He worked up to Ford Granadas and Rovers, and after about seven years was allowed to drive an Aston Martin Lagonda.
In 1984 he formed the Motoring Press Agency with fellow journalist Jonathan Gill. They road-tested cars for local newspapers and magazines, which led to articles in publications such as Performance Car. In 1987 he even compiled Amstrad CPC game reviews for Amstrad Computer User. He has written for Top Gear magazine since its launch in 1993.
Television came on the 27th of October 1988, when the original Top Gear began its run with Clarkson as one of the presenters. Bentley, who later became the show's producer, explained his choice in blunt terms. He wanted a motoring writer who could make cars on telly fun, someone "rather than respectfully po-faced". In his words, "Clarkson stood out because he was funny."
That first format ended in March 1999. Then, on the 20th of October 2002, Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman launched a relaunched version. Clarkson presented alongside Richard Hammond, Jason Dawe and later James May. It became the most-watched programme on BBC Two and the most widely broadcast factual television show in the world.
The show also made him rich. Bedder 6, his company handling Top Gear merchandise and international distribution, earned over £149m in revenue in 2012. Clarkson was reportedly paid £1 million for presenting in 2007, plus a further £1.7 million from books, DVDs and newspaper columns. He and May were that year the first people to reach the north magnetic pole in a car. A year later, he suffered minor injuries during the twelfth series when he deliberately drove into a brick wall.
He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance in 2006, though Jonathan Ross won. In 2014 he received a £4.8 million dividend and an £8.4 million share buyout from BBC Worldwide, taking his estimated income past £14 million.
In 1998, a robot's weapon flew off during the filming of the first UK series of Robot Wars and lodged in the studio wall just inches from Clarkson. He was hosting that series between stints in another unlikely role. From November 1998 to December 2000, he fronted a talk show called Clarkson, which ran for 27 half-hour episodes with musicians, politicians and television personalities as guests.
The chat show gave him another platform for mischief. He placed a plastic 3D map of Wales in a microwave oven and switched it on. Defending the stunt later, he said, "I put Wales in there because Scotland wouldn't fit."
Other programmes let him complain on cue. In 1997, on the comedy show Room 101, he consigned caravans, houseflies, the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, the mentality inside golf clubs and vegetarians to oblivion. When the presenters Trinny and Susannah compared his dress sense to that of a market trader, he appeared on their show What Not to Wear. He rejected their makeover and said he would rather eat his own hair than return.
In November 2004, an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? traced his family history to his great-great-great-grandfather John Kilner, who lived from 1792 to 1857. Kilner invented the Kilner jar, a container for preserved fruit.
Engineering stirred a more earnest side of him. In Inventions That Changed the World, he showcased the gun, the computer, the jet engine, the telephone and the television. He was chief supporter of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the public poll Great Britons. On the 12th of September 2003, Brunel University awarded him an honorary degree, partly for popularising engineering and partly for championing its namesake.
He flew on the last British Airways Concorde flight on the 24th of October 2003. Paraphrasing Neil Armstrong, he called the retirement "one small step for a man, but one huge leap backwards for mankind". He also briefly kept an English Electric Lightning fighter jet in the front garden of his country home. The local council demanded its removal, and Clarkson joked that they "wouldn't believe my claim that it was a leaf blower". The whole affair was set up for his programme Speed.
The armed forces were another passion. Top Gear segments saw him escape a Challenger 2 tank in a Range Rover and watch Irish Guardsmen fire on a Porsche Boxster and a Mercedes-Benz SLK. In October 2005, he visited British troops in Baghdad. His 2003 documentary The Victoria Cross: For Valour focused on his father-in-law, Robert Henry Cain, who earned the medal at the Battle of Arnhem. In 2007 he presented a film about Operation Chariot, the 1942 Commando raid on the docks of Saint-Nazaire. At the end of that year he became a patron of Help for Heroes, and The Sunday Times Christmas appeal backed the charity.
One machine, though, he knew he could never keep. After racing a Bugatti Veyron across Europe against a Cessna 182 flown by James May, he admitted that winning felt hollow because he would never own that car.
In 1994, Clarkson was lent a Porsche 928 to test for Top Gear, and he used it for an unplanned journey from London to Sheffield to see his dying father in hospital. The car was so quick that a chicken he had cooked was still warm when he arrived. Years later, in the Patagonia Special, he said that without that car he would not have had the chance to say goodbye.
His first car was a 1969 Ford Cortina 1600E, bought because his father had driven one as a company car when Jeremy was a child. When he began selling Paddington Bears for the family, he replaced it with a Mk1 Volkswagen Scirocco. His first expensive purchase was a Ferrari F355, which he fell for after testing it on Top Gear. He kept it through the late 1990s. He later swapped it for a Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, which became famous on the relaunched show.
The Ford GT turned out to be a hard love. Clarkson wanted one after driving it for Top Gear, and he reached the shortlist for the few cars imported to Britain because he knew Ford's head of public relations from a previous job. After a long wait and a higher price, he found numerous faults, many blamed on an aftermarket alarm system required for insurance. He returned it for a full refund after what he called "the most miserable month's motoring possible". Then he bought it back. He later called it "the most unreliable car ever made", because he never completed a return journey in it.
In 2006 he ordered a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, selling the Ford GT to make room. In August 2008 he sold it because, he said, "idiots in Peugeots kept trying to race him in it". Five months later he wrote in The Times that he had bought his third Volvo XC90 in a row, because it "takes six children to school in the morning".
His praise could be generous. He called the Alfa Romeo Brera "Cameron Diaz on wheels". He devoted 20 minutes of a Top Gear episode to proving the Czech-made Škoda Yeti might be the best car in the world. Of the Holden-built Vauxhall Monaro, he said he had fallen in love with a Vauxhall, and described it as "back-breakingly marvellous". He also names the Lexus LFA as the best car he has ever driven.
His contempt was equally vivid. He disliked Rover, the last major British-owned car manufacturer, with a feeling that stretched back to its days in British Leyland. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, he said never had so much been done so badly by so many. When Rover collapsed in 2005, he said he could not feel teary about the company, though he did feel sorry for the workforce. He has also expressed hatred for the Toyota Prius and the Nissan Juke.
He described the Vauxhall Vectra as designed "in a coffee break by people who couldn't care less about cars". After a Top Gear piece in 1995, Vauxhall complained to the BBC and called the segment "totally unbalanced".
Workers at the closing Longbridge plant hung an "Anti-Clarkson Campaign" banner outside the factory in its final days. Some critics have credited his comments with helping to close Rover and Vauxhall's Luton plant. Clarkson rejects the idea and offers a counter-example. He called the Ford Orion the worst car ever, he says, and it went on to become a best-seller.
He describes himself as a libertarian who believes government should "build park benches and that is it". He holds a particular contempt for the Health and Safety Executive. He often attacked the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, especially their "ban" culture, singling out the bans on smoking and on fox hunting. In April 2013, he was one of 2,000 guests at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
A stunt after the 2007 child benefit data scandal shows his style. To prove the public furore unjustified, he published his bank account number and sort code in The Sun. Someone promptly set up a £500 monthly direct debit from his account to Diabetes UK.
In the 2016 European Union membership referendum, he backed Remain, posting a video with James May three days beforehand. In a January 2019 interview with LBC, he called Brexit voters "coffin-dodging idiots". More recently he has turned on Keir Starmer's Labour government. He attended the farmers' protests in London, calling the tax hikes a "hammer blow to the back of the head" of British agriculture.
The environment has drawn his sharpest fire. He has mocked environmental groups as "eco-mentalists", dismissed windfarms and backed hydrogen cars. For years he rejected the scientific consensus on climate change. During a 2019 trip to Cambodia for The Grand Tour, he called the state of the Mekong River and the Tonlé Sap "genuinely alarming", though he still doubted that humans caused it.
Protest has followed him. In September 2005, at his Oxford Brookes University honorary degree ceremony, the road protester Rebecca Lush hit him with a banana meringue pie. He responded "good shot" and nicknamed her "Banana girl". In 2009, the activist group Climate Rush dumped horse manure on his lawn. His remarks about teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg were criticised by his own daughter.
He has been candid that the persona is partly performance. Interviewing Alastair Campbell on Top Gear, he said, "I don't believe what I write, any more than you believe what you say." The Economist called him a "skillful propagandist for the motoring lobby". An online petition in 2008 to "Make Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister" gathered 49,446 signatures, while the opposing petition drew 87. Number 10 agreed with his own assessment that he would be a rubbish Prime Minister.
In 2004, the BBC apologised unreservedly and paid £250 to a Somerset parish council after Clarkson drove into a 30-year-old horse-chestnut tree to test the strength of a Toyota Hilux. That was a modest bill compared to what followed. The BBC Trust criticised the Polar Special for glamorising drunk driving after Clarkson and James May drank on camera and he joked that he was "sailing".
In November 2008, a joke about lorry drivers and prostitutes drew over 500 complaints. Chris Mole, the Member of Parliament for Ipswich, where five sex workers were murdered in 2006, demanded that he be sacked. Clarkson dismissed the MP in his Sunday Times column. The BBC defended the joke as a comic rebuttal of a common misconception and within the viewer's expectation of his persona.
His targets have often been foreign. In October 1998, Hyundai complained to the BBC about remarks he made at the Birmingham Motor Show. In April 2007, the Malaysian parliament criticised him for calling the Perodua Kelisa the worst car in the world. In January 2012, the Indian High Commission lodged a formal complaint over a Top Gear Christmas special that mocked Indian food, toilets, trains and history.
Sometimes the fight was physical. At the British Press Awards in March 2004, he swore at Piers Morgan and punched him. Morgan says the blow left a scar above his left eyebrow.
In February 2009, in Australia, he called Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot". The Royal National Institute of Blind People and Scottish politicians condemned the remark. He apologised for the reference to Brown's blindness but not for calling him an idiot.
On the 30th of November 2011, he said on The One Show that striking public sector workers should be taken outside and shot in front of their families. The programme apologised. The BBC received 21,335 complaints within 36 hours, plus 314 messages of support for Clarkson.
The largest storm came in December 2022, when The Sun published his column about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The Independent Press Standards Organisation received more than 25,100 complaints, the most for any article since its founding in 2014. That total exceeded all complaints it received in 2021, which came to 14,355. The paper took the column down at his request and later apologised. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said "language matters", and more than 60 cross-party MPs signed a letter to the editor.
The Metropolitan Police found no offences and took no action. Clarkson said he was "horrified to have caused so much hurt" and emailed the Duke and Duchess on Christmas Day. In June 2023, IPSO ruled that the column was sexist but rejected complaints of inaccuracy and harassment. Clarkson's daughter Emily and James May had also criticised the piece.
His employers had tolerated storms before. In May 2014, after an unused take surfaced in which he was reported to have mumbled a racial slur, the BBC gave him a final warning. He accepted he would be sacked if he made another offensive remark.
The trouble began over a steak. In March 2015, Clarkson was filming on location in Hawes, North Yorkshire, when the chef had gone home and he was offered soup and cold meat. A dispute followed, and Clarkson punched the Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, who was treated in hospital. The BBC suspended him and dropped the next episode, due on the 15th of March.
A petition by the blogger Guido Fawkes demanded his reinstatement. It reached a million signatures by the afternoon of the 20th of March, which its host described as the fastest-growing campaign in its history. A man dressed as The Stig delivered it to the BBC in an artillery vehicle. On the 25th of March, the BBC confirmed it would not renew his contract.
Tymon declined to press charges, and Clarkson urged fans to stop trolling him. Clarkson also revealed in his Sunday Times column that two days before the punch, a doctor had warned him that a lump could be cancer of the tongue. Tests showed it was not. In November 2015, Tymon sued for racial discrimination over the abuse he received. In February 2016, Clarkson apologised and settled the claim for £100,000.
The door closed fast, and another opened faster. Less than 24 hours after the dismissal, the Russian state broadcaster Zvezda approached him. On the 30th of July 2015, it was announced that he, Hammond and May would make a new show for Amazon Prime Video. With Wilman they formed the production company W. Chump & Sons. The show, titled The Grand Tour, launched in 2016. In 2018, ITV announced that he would host a revamped Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Since 2019 he has farmed at Diddly Squat Farm for the series Clarkson's Farm. In its second season, planning permission for his restaurant was denied, so he converted unused agricultural buildings to commercial use. In May 2024, an amendment called Clarkson's clause made that easier for others. Amazon was reported to be ending the relationship after the 2022 column, but the show was renewed for a fourth season. Lisa Hogan, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2017, features in the series.
His body has made news too. In August 2017, he was admitted to hospital in Mallorca with pneumonia. Afterward he boasted that getting on for three-quarters of a million cigarettes had not harmed him. In October 2024, he revealed that he had a stent fitted at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
On the 23rd of August 2024, he opened a pub, the Farmer's Dog, in Asthall near Burford. He banned Keir Starmer, James May and a local named Maddy Hornby, though the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch was invited to discuss farming. In December 2025, he extended the ban to every Labour MP except Markus Campbell-Savours.
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How did Jeremy Clarkson get his first television job?
He won a place on the original Top Gear after a screen test in which he spent 20 minutes ranting about the Citroen 2CV. Researcher Jon Bentley, who later became producer, liked that he was funny and irreverent.
Why did Clarkson leave Top Gear?
In March 2015, after a dispute over catering during filming in Hawes, North Yorkshire, he punched producer Oisin Tymon. The BBC suspended him and then chose not to renew his contract.
What is The Grand Tour?
It is the motoring show Clarkson made with Richard Hammond and James May for Amazon Prime Video, produced by their company W. Chump & Sons with Andy Wilman. The first season was released worldwide in 2016.
What is Clarkson's clause?
It is an amendment introduced in May 2024 that makes it easier to convert unused agricultural buildings to commercial use. It was named after Clarkson, who did this in the second season of Clarkson's Farm after his restaurant planning permission was denied.
What happened after his 2022 column about Meghan?
The Independent Press Standards Organisation received more than 25,100 complaints. The Sun removed the column and apologised, and in June 2023 the regulator found it sexist but rejected other complaints.
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- 189NewsTop Gear 'speciale needs' joke offensive, says Ofcom25 October 2010
- 190NewsTop Gear special prompts complaint from Indian high commissionMark Sweney — 12 January 2012
- 191Jeremy Clarkson's 'facial growth' comment prompts complaintsBen Dowell — 10 February 2012
- 196Protests cut short Top Gear shootBritish Broadcasting Corporation — 3 October 2014
- 198NewsI should have been fired years ago, to be honestLynn Barber — 20 November 2005
- 199NewsMalaysia lambasts Top Gear host4 April 2007
- 200Clarkson: Heaven and HellEamonn McCusker — DVD Times — 9 November 2005
- 201NewsScottish politicians urge BBC to take Jeremy Clarkson off air over Gordon Brown jibesDeborah Summers — 6 February 2009
- 202Newsnews.scotsman.comEmily Pykett — 7 February 2009
- 203theherald.co.uk7 February 2009
- 204NewsClarkson apologises for PM remark9 February 2009
- 205Jeremy Clarkson under fire over call for Welsh language to be abolishedSimon Gaskell — WalesOnline — 3 September 2011
- 206NewsJeremy Clarkson apologises over strike comment1 December 2011
- 207NewsComplaints over Clarkson One Show comments reach 21,0002 December 2011
- 208NewsJeremy Clarkson: Train Suicides Are 'Selfish'Sky News HD — 3 December 2011
- 210NewsBugatti Veyron — Utterly, stunningly, jaw droppingly brilliantJeremy Clarkson — 27 November 2007
- 211NewsClarkson speeding case dismissed6 September 2007
- 212NewsClarkson's speed claim criticised28 May 2008
- 213NewsJeremy Clarkson, Top Gear host, suspended by BBC after 'fracas'10 March 2015
- 214NewsJeremy Clarkson suspended from Top Gear: as it happenedGordon Rayner — 8 July 2013
- 215Investigation findingsKen MacQuarrie
- 216NewsJeremy Clarkson 'punch': Top Gear episodes to be dropped11 March 2015
- 217NewsJeremy Clarkson apologises to former Top Gear producer Oisin TymonTara Conlan — 24 February 2016
- 218NewsJeremy Clarkson dropped from Top Gear, BBC confirms25 March 2015
- 219NewsJeremy Clarkson suspended: James May confirms Top Gear host was in 'a dust-up' with producer over dinnerGordon Rayner — 11 March 2015
- 220NewsBBC faces multimillion-pound bill from Jeremy Clarkson's suspensionJohn Plunkett et al. — 11 March 2015
- 221NewsTop Gear: 350,000 sign petition supporting Jeremy Clarkson11 March 2015
- 222NewsFans petition BBC to reinstate 'Top Gear' host Jeremy ClarksonAlan Cowell — 11 March 2015
- 223NewsPetition backing Jeremy Clarkson hits one million signatures20 March 2015
- 224NewsJeremy Clarkson petition 'BBC Bring Back Clarkson' is now officially the fastest-growing Change.org campaign in historyLizzie Dearden — 11 March 2015
- 226NewsJeremy Clarkson: BBC comments 'meant in jest'22 March 2015
- 229NewsTop Gear producer 'won't press charges' against Jeremy Clarkson27 March 2015
- 230NewsJeremy Clarkson calls on trolls to leave producer Oisin Tymon alone: 'None of this is his fault'Jenn Selby — 27 March 2015
- 232NewsJeremy Clarkson has been offered a new job but it's in RussiaAmelia Butterfly — 26 March 2015
- 233NewsJeremy Clarkson recalls cancer scare before Top Gear 'fracas'19 April 2015
- 234NewsFormer 'Top Gear' host Jeremy Clarkson sued for racial discriminationDon Melvin — CNN — 13 November 2015
- 235NewsBBC Top Gear producer 'suing Jeremy Clarkson and BBC' for racial discriminationHeather Saul — 13 November 2015
- 236'You cannot write things like this': John Bishop and Carol Vorderman among stars to condemn Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan Markle rantMaanya Sachdeva — 18 December 2022
- 237Jeremy Clarkson condemned over Meghan column in the SunSophie Zeldin-O'Neill — 18 December 2022
- 238Meghan's biographer claims 'hate can do crazy things' after Clarkson's apology backfiresChristopher Sharp — 17 January 2023
- 239What did Jeremy Clarkson say about Meghan Markle? 7 of the TV presenter's controversial commentsElla Kipling — 20 December 2022
- 240NewsJeremy Clarkson says he apologised to Harry and Meghan for Sun column16 January 2023
- 241IPSO's most complained about articles: From Stonehaven 'Death Express' to Jeremy Clarkson on Meghan MarkleBron Maher — 20 December 2022
- 242Jeremy Clarkson column on Meghan breaks watchdog's complaints recordJessica Elgot — 20 December 2022
- 243Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan column receives record number of complaintsSami Quadri — 20 December 2022
- 244Press watchdog ducks Murdoch dinner date after deluge of Clarkson complaintsJim Waterson — 19 December 2022
- 245Sturgeon: Clarkson's Meghan column is "deeply misogynist"19 December 2022
- 246Jeremy Clarkson Meghan Sun column embarrasses Rupert Murdoch and drags Rishi Sunak into rowAdam Sherwin — 19 December 2022
- 247NewsClarkson's Meghan comments 'awful' but host will remain, says ITV boss21 December 2022
- 248The Sun & ITV Under Pressure From Dozens Of MPs Over "Violent, Misogynistic" Jeremy Clarkson ColumnMax Goldbart — 20 December 2022
- 249Jeremy Clarkson to remain host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? says ITV bossJim Waterson — 21 December 2022
- 250Jeremy Clarkson won't face police probe over Meghan column, Met chief saysMatt Mathers — 21 December 2022
- 251Rev Al Sharpton slams Jeremy Clarkson's 'racist' Meghan Markle column amid police petitionNadine White — 22 December 2022
- 252Culture Secretary says Jeremy Clarkson has the right to 'say what he wants' about Meghan MarkleTom Murray — 11 January 2023
- 253Jeremy Clarkson says he is 'horrified' over Meghan column19 December 2022
- 255The Sun apologises for Jeremy Clarkson's column on MeghanNadeem Badshah — 23 December 2022
- 256Sussexes dismiss Sun apology for Clarkson column as 'PR stunt'Jane Clinton — 24 December 2022
- 257Jeremy Clarkson set to be dumped by Amazon Prime following Meghan columnRob Harris — 16 January 2023
- 259Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan article was sexist to duchess, press regulator rulesHelen Bushby et al. — 30 June 2023
- 260NewsJeremy Clarkson divorce: 'Mrs Clarkson deserves every penny'Anita Singh et al. — 5 May 2014
- 261Jeremy Clarkson talks of 'difficult divorce' from wife of 21 yearsTom Bryant — 22 March 2015
- 262NewsJeremy Clarkson loses Isle of Man land dispute27 April 2012
- 263NewsNew concern over private pathway12 October 2005
- 265NewsClarkson told to reopen footpath by Isle of Man home11 May 2010
- 266Jeremy Clarkson loses fight over Langness27 April 2012
- 267NewsThe famous fans of GenesisFiona Hamilton et al. — 2 November 2008
- 269NewsJeremy Clarkson lifts 'pointless' injunction against ex-wifeJosh Halliday — 27 October 2011
- 270Who Is Jeremy Clarkson's Girlfriend Lisa Hogan?Ben Walker — 3 July 2020
- 272Who is Lisa Hogan? All you need to know about Jeremy Clarkson's Irish girlfriendDavid Kent — 14 June 2021
- 274NewsThree houses are for sale in Jeremy Clarkson's village – but no one wants to buy themChiara Wilkinson
- 275NewsWho's who in the Chipping Norton setCaroline Dewar — 5 March 2012
- 277Jeremy Clarkson opens new pub, The Farmer's Dog, to queues of puntersEllie Muir — 23 August 2024
- 278Jeremy Clarkson bans third person from pub after she 'moans' about his drinksEarnshaw Tom — 2 September 2024
- 279Jeremy Clarkson off work for 'some time' with pneumonia7 August 2017
- 280OK! – Jeremy Clarkson Quits SmokingSurena Chande — 28 August 2017
- 281Jeremy Clarkson reveals he had heart procedureHollie Cole — bbc.co.uk — 19 October 2024
- 282NewsJeremy Clarkson reveals he has 'aggressive' prostate cancerAnita Singh — 17 June 2026
- 283NewsJeremy Clarkson reveals prostate cancer diagnosis on farming showTabby Wilson — 17 June 2026
- 284NewsJeremy Clarkson in remission from prostate cancerClaire Keenan — 21 June 2026
- 285NewsJeremy Clarkson to appear on TFI FridayAnita Singh — 8 June 2015
- 287Remembering Jeremy Clarkson as Mr Blobby's chauffeurMel Evans — 27 February 2020
- 288Britcar 24 Hours – Provisional ResultDailySportsCar — 2007