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|children = 3 |parents = Shirley and Eddie Clarkson |website = }} Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for co-presenting the BBC TV show ''Top Gear'' with Richard Hammond and James May from 2002 to 2015. 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, he 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 provoked public reaction. 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. He has also garnered a significant public following, being credited as a major factor in the resurgence of ''Top Gear'' as one of the most popular shows on the BBC. On 25 March 2015, the BBC announced it would not renew Clarkson's contract after he verbally and physically attacked a ''Top Gear'' producer over a dispute at a hotel while filming on location. ==Personal life== Clarkson was born in Doncaster, the son of Shirley Gabrielle (Ward), a teacher, and Edward Grenville Clarkson, a travelling salesman. His parents, who ran a business selling tea cosies, put their son's name down in advance for private school 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.〔Shirley Clarkson, 'Bearly Believable: My Part in the Paddington Bear Story', Harriman House Publishing, 23 June 2008 ISBN 978-1-905641-72-7〕 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 later Repton School. By his own account, he was expelled from Repton School for "drinking, smoking and generally making a nuisance of himself." Clarkson attended Repton alongside Formula One engineer Adrian Newey. Clarkson played the role of a public schoolboy, Atkinson, in a BBC radio ''Children's Hour'' serial adaptation of Anthony Buckeridge's ''Jennings'' novels until his voice broke. Clarkson married Alexandra James (now Hall) in 1989, but she left him for one of his friends after six months. In May 1993 he married his manager,〔 Frances Cain (daughter of VC recipient Robert Henry Cain) in Fulham. The couple lived in Chipping Norton, in the Cotswolds, with their three children.〔 Clarkson is a member of the Chipping Norton set. Known for buying him car-related gifts, for Christmas 2007 Clarkson's second wife bought him a Mercedes-Benz 600. She was reported to have filed divorce proceedings in April 2014.〔 In September 2010 Clarkson was granted a privacy injunction against his first wife to prevent her from publishing claims that their sexual relationship continued after his second marriage (see ''AMM v HXW''). He voluntarily lifted the injunction in October 2011, commenting that: "Injunctions don’t work. You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It’s pointless." Clarkson's fondness for wearing jeans has been blamed by some for the decline in sales of denim in the mid-1990s, particularly Levi's, because of their being associated with middle-aged men, the so-called 'Jeremy Clarkson effect'. Clarkson is a fan of the rock band Genesis and attended the band's reunion concert at Twickenham Stadium in 2007. He also provided sleeve notes for the reissue of the album ''Selling England by the Pound'' as part of the ''Genesis 1970–1975'' box set. Clarkson was involved in a protracted legal dispute about access to a "permissive path" across the grounds of his second home, a converted lighthouse, on the Isle of Man from 2005 to 2010, after reports that dogs had attacked and killed sheep on the property.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jeremy Clarkson loses Isle of Man land dispute )〕 Clarkson and his wife had claimed that four sheep were deliberately killed after being chased into the sea by a dog let off its lead. He lost the dispute after the Isle of Man government held a public inquiry, and was told to re-open the footpath. The decision was affirmed by the Isle of Man High Court. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremy Clarkson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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