Photos : Jeremy Clarkson: Everything we know about the Top Gear presenter throughout his decades-long career
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson was born on 11 April 1990 in Doncaster.
Jeremy's mother, Shirley, was a teacher, and his father, Edward, was a travelling salesman.
Jeremy Clarkson's parents put his name down for private schools but did not have the money to pay the fees.
Jeremy Clarkson's parents made Paddington Bears for their son and daughter, Joanna, and sold them to pay their children's school fees.
The TV presenter explained he hated his time at Repton School:
‘I was thrown on an hourly basis into the ice plunge pool, dragged from my bed in the middle of the night and beaten, made to lick the lavatories clean and all the usual humiliations that... turn a small boy into a gibbering, sobbing, suicidal wreck... they glued my records together, snapped my compass, ate my biscuits, defecated in my tuck box and they cut my trousers in half.’
Jeremy Clarkson was eventually expelled from Repton School for ‘drinking, smoking and generally making a nuisance of himself’.
Jeremy Clarkson started his career as a travelling salesman for his parents' company.
Jeremy Clarkson later became a journalist, writing for several local newspapers.
In 1984, Jeremy Clarkson founded the Motoring Press Agency, in which he conducted road tests for local newspapers and motoring magazines.
Jeremy Clarkson regularly writes a column for TheSun and the Sunday Times.
Jeremy Clarkson first appeared on television in the motoring program Top Gear in 1988. The producer hired him after Clarkson went on a 20-minute rant about the awfulness of the Citroen 2CV.
Together with Richard Hammond and James May, Jeremy Clarkson presented Top Gear until 2015. Since its beginning, it became the most watched TV show on BBC Two.
Jeremy Clarkson appeared on the first ever episode of Who Do You Think You Are? during which he discovered his great-great-great-grandfather, John Kilner, invented the Kilner jar, a fruit container.
In 2007, Jeremy Clarkson won a National Television Award, in particular the Special Recognition Award.
In 2015, the BBC announced Jeremy Clarkson would not return to Top Gear after he allegedly verbally assaulted a member of the production team.
When Jeremy Clarkson was fired, his co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May announced they would not continue the show without him.
The famous trio moved on to present The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video.
The TV presenter has been married twice and has got three children.
Jeremy Clarkson married Alex Hall in 1989. Only two years later, she left him for one of his friends, something she says she regretted almost instantly:
'I can't go into that because I have to think of my children and other people, but leaving Jeremy was the biggest mistake of my life. I still love him I always have but I believed that if you make your bed you've got to lie in it.'
Two years after his painful split, Jeremy Clarkson married Frances Cain, who was also his manager at the time.
Jeremy and Frances Clarkson went on to welcome three children together: Emily, Finlo and Katya.
In 1999, his ex-wife Alex Hall claimed she had an affair with him for ten years following their separation. Jeremy Clarkson firmly denied these accusations and the two fought in court.
After more than twenty years together and three children, Jeremy Clarkson and Frances Cain announced they were getting a divorce in 2014.
Amid their divorce, rumour had it Jeremy Clarkson had left his wife Frances because he developped feelings for another woman.
The other woman was none other than his personal assistant on Top Gear, Philippa Sage. The couple remained together for about three years.
Jeremy Clarkson's most famous partner is probably his current girlfriend, Lisa Hogan.
Jeremy Clarkson met Lisa Hogan, an Irish model and actress, in 2017.
Three years after they started dating, Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa Hogan moved to the Cotswolds and bought a farm.
The couple's farm, the Diddly Squat Farm, is the topic of Jeremy Clarkson's new Amazon Prime series called Clarkson's Farm, in which Lisa Hogan appears regularly.
In a recent interview, Lisa Hogan was asked if she was planning on marrying Jeremy Clarkson, to which she answered:
‘Mrs Clarkson? No, thank you, I like Lisa Hogan.’
