Jeremy Clarkson

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Birthday:

11 April 1960, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Birth Name:

Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson

Height:

196 cm

Jeremy Clarkson was born in 1960 in the Yorkshire town of Doncaster in the North of England, an area renowned for its loud shouting and rampant exaggeration. He went to Repton school but didn't really pay attention and then got a job with a local newspaper where he was famed for stories such as 'Literally 50 billion people visit cake sale'. Probably. A chance meeting with a BBC producer saw him cast in the hit show Top Gear and the rest is history. Except for jet packs, which are the future. Show less «

Smokers pay £19,000 a minute to the Exchequer, and that's enough to pay for the whole police force. Or to put it another way, for every £1...Show more »

Smokers pay £19,000 a minute to the Exchequer, and that's enough to pay for the whole police force. Or to put it another way, for every £1 we cost the National Health Service, we give it £3.60. Please don't encourage the state to dictate how I live my life. Show less «

[Sunday Times 24 July 2005] Only last week I was at my children's sports day and as I lay in the long grass by the river drinking pink champ...Show more »

[Sunday Times 24 July 2005] Only last week I was at my children's sports day and as I lay in the long grass by the river drinking pink champagne and chatting with other media parents, I remember thinking, 'God, I love being middle class'. Show less «

[in reaction to being hit in the face by a pie from a protester at his Honorary Degree ceremony] Good Shot!

The only person who ever looked good in the back of a four-seater convertible is Adolf Hitler.

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine i...Show more »

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an E.M. Forster novel. Show less «

Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed. I do, and it ...Show more »

Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed. I do, and it helps. Show less «

Sure it's quiet, for a diesel. But that's like being well-behaved... for a murderer.

We only need look at Baroness Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) to know what women can be like when they want to get in front.

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heteros...Show more »

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works. But here we have Top Gear (2002) setting new records after six years using cheese and cheese. It confuses them. Show less «

I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much, otherwise I'd have an enormous boat. ...Show more »

I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much, otherwise I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money, it's rather vulgar. Show less «

I'd hate to see the day when a really bad bug like Ebola gets on a plane.

I long for a time when I think of myself as a European first and an Englishman second. I crave a United States of Europe with one currency, ...Show more »

I long for a time when I think of myself as a European first and an Englishman second. I crave a United States of Europe with one currency, one army and one type of plug. Show less «

Britain, on its own, has little influence on the world stage. I think we are all agreed on that. But Europe, if it were well run and had goo...Show more »

Britain, on its own, has little influence on the world stage. I think we are all agreed on that. But Europe, if it were well run and had good, cohesive, well thought-out policies, would be a tremendous force for good Show less «