Jeremy Clarkson - The Biography

Love him or loathe him, you cannot ignore him: Motoring aficionado, comic writer, TV presenter, engineering buff, journalist, author and unapologetic bon viveur, Jeremy Clarkson is one of Britain's most controversial personalities. In this riveting and entertaining biography, his frank views and hilariously candid anecdotes appear alongside the life story of the self-confessed Eurosceptic, chain-smoking petrol head. Following stints as a travelling salesman, a reporter on his local paper and as a founder of the Motoring Press Association, Jeremy discovered fame and fortune with the trailblazing BBC motoring series Top Gear, becoming the unrivalled authority on all things automotive. With Clarkson at the wheel, the series had a worldwode audience of over 250 million viewers, and garnered him praise and condemnation in equal measure for his forthright views on cyclists, environmentalists and road safety campaigners. Clarkson has courted controversy in his Esquire, Sun, Sunday Times and BBC Top Gear Magazine columns. Accused of calling cyclists 'muesli freaks', BMW employees 'Nazis' and Hyundai designers 'spaniel eaters', Jeremy was sent a warning by the RSPCA for boasting that he hunts rats using a tennis racket and croquet mallet. From causing traffic chaos on the roads of London in defence of drivers' rights to fisticuffs with Piers Morgan, driving 'fast and recklessly' through the Lincolnshire countryside - an area with one of the worst road death rates in Europe - to being on the receiving end of a meringue pie when he collected an honorary degree from Brunel University, this is the true story of a colourful personality.

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