He married his manager Frances Cain in May 1993 and his children are Emily, Finlo and Katya.

Clarkson first worked for the BBC aged 12, playing the role of Atkinson in the radio adaptation of the Jennings novels, Anthony Buckeridge's tales of life at the fictional Linbury Court preparatory school.

Original Top Gear was cancelled largely because Clarkson left the show in 1999. It was also him who revived the show in 2002.

When he and his co-presenters laughed at a Mexican car, he said that Mexican ambassador is too lazy to protest. Unfortunately for Clarkson he wasn't.

The Top Gear theme song is an actual song from 1973, it wasn't created for the show. It's called Jessica by Allman Brothers.

In the show Jeremy is revealed as an amateur ornithologist; has a bird book and checks off the birds he sees on the trip.

In 2004 Clarkson damaged a 30-year-old horse-chestnut tree by driving into it to test the strength of a Toyota Hilux.

In January 2008 he lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.

At the end of 2007 Clarkson became a patron of Help for Heroes, a charity aiming to raise money to provide better facilities to British soldiers.

Clarkson owned rights to Top Gear and sold them in 2012.