Top Gear

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Chapters: Jeremy Clarkson, The Stig, List of Top Gear episodes, Top Gear challenges, Top Gear Race to the North, Top Gear test track, Richard Hammond, Top Gear Segments, Criticism of Top Gear, Noel Edmonds, James May, Ben Collins, Top Gear Races, List of Top Gear test track Power Lap Times, Julia Bradbury, List of Top Gear broadcasters and video releases, Top Gear: Vietnam Special, Top Gear DVDs, Kate Humble, Tiff Needell, Angela Rippon, Top Gear: Polar Special, Makgadikgadi Pan, Top Gear: Bolivia Special, Dunsfold, Top Ground Gear Force, Vicki Butler-Henderson, Quentin Willson, Top Gear: US Special, Top Gear: Botswana Special, Perry McCarthy, Jessica, Top Gear of the Pops, Top Gear Winter Olympics, William Woollard, Stars in Fast Cars, Bedder 6, Top Gear: Turbo Challenge, Chris Goffey, Jon Bentley, Jason Barlow, Michael Collie, Andy Wilman, Top Gear Australia: Ashes Special, Tony Mason, Steve Berry, Michele Newman, Top Gear Motorsport, Top Gear Magazine India, Rally Report, Brendan Coogan, Tom Boswell. Excerpt: Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for his role on the BBC TV show Top Gear along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May. He also writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun. From a career as a local journalist in Northern England, Clarkson rose to public prominence as a presenter of the original format of Top Gear in 1988. Since the mid-1990s Clarkson has become a recognised public personality, regularly appearing on British television presenting his own shows and appearing as a guest on other shows. As well as motoring, Clarkson has produced programmes and books on subjects such as history and engineering. From 1998 to 2000 he also hosted his own chat show, Clarkson. His opinionated but humorous tongue-in-cheek writing and presenting style has often generated much public reaction to his viewpoints. His actions both privately and as a Top Gear presenter have also sometimes resulted in criticism from the media, politicians, pressure groups and the public. Despite the criticism levelled against him, Clarkson has also generated a significant following from the public at large, being credited as a major factor in the resurgence of Top Gear as one of the most popular shows on the BBC. Clarkson was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire (West Riding at the time of his birth), to teacher Shirley Gabrielle Ward and travelling salesman Edward Grenville "Eddie" Clarkson; his parents ran a business selling tea cosies. They put the young Jeremy Clarkson's name down in advance for a number of private schools with no idea how they were going to pay the fees, until at the last moment, when he was 13, they made two Paddington Bear stuffed toys for each of their children. These proved so popular that they started selling them through the business with sufficient success to be able to pay the fees for Clarkson to attend Hill House School, Doncaster and lat