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| | This Week's Guest: Jeremy Clarkson
Sunday 16 November
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Friday 21 November | | | |
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This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the motor journalist and motor-mouth Jeremy Clarkson. He came from a comfortable background -- his mother was a teacher and his father a travelling salesman. But his parents had greater ambitions for their son and wanted send him to public school. Their determination led his mother to set up a business making Paddington Bear toys, and the proceeds funded Jeremy’s place at Repton. However, he was a far from ideal pupil and says he was “asked to leave” apparently for inappropriate behaviour including drinking, smoking and seducing girls. He left school with no A-levels and started work as a trainee reporter on the Rotherham Advertiser. But the local news diet was not enough of a challenge and, in the middle of an assignment to a vegetable and produce show, he left the paper to seek his fortune in London, as a freelance motoring writer.
He ended up presenting Top Gear for the BBC and stayed on the programme for nine years -- kick-starting it into a brash, opinionated motor show with a large and loyal fan base. He has indulged his love of speed and risk-taking through programmes including “Extreme Machines” and “Speed” he’s hosted a chat-show, “Clarkson” and, more recently, his razor sharp tongue has turned on our fellow Europeans with “Meet the Neighbours”.
But, although his public image is as a brash, opinionated and sexist boor, he claims that he’s been misrepresented – he says he’s always been a bit of a mother’s boy. While his mother describes him as a family man who has a softer side that the public never sees. Married to his agent-cum-manager Francie, the couple have three children and two homes.
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