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Jeremy Clarkson

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TV Personality

The Resume

    (April 16, 1960- )
    Born in Doncaster, England , United Kingdom
    Journalist, Author, Motoring Enthusiast and Television Presenter
    Co-host of Top Gear with Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig (2002)
    Presenter of 'Top Gear' (Original Format) (1989-2000)
    Co-host of 'Robot Wars' (1998)
    Author of 'Born to be Riled,' 'The World According to Clarkson' and many other book on cars
    Wrote articles for The Sun and The Sunday Times (UK)
    Nicknamed Jezza

Why he might be annoying:

    He is very opinionated and outspoken.
    His comments often put him and 'Top Gear' at the center of controversy.
    Residents from Nortfolk county began a 'We Hate Jeremy Clarkson' campaign after comments he wrote in his column implied that people living in the area were backwards people.
    He was expelled from school for drinking, smoking and being a nuisance.
    He was married to his first wife for less than a year.
    He is unsympathetic to the green movement and groups like Greenpeace.
    He is against government regulations and stated that the government should ‘build park benches and that is it’.
    He opposes bans on smoking and fox hunting.
    Residents were angered when they saw on 'Top Gear' that damage done to a tree in their village was done by Clarkson intentionally crashing a truck into it (2003).
    He is highly critical of the United States and its relationship with the United Kingdom.
    He referred to America as the United States of Total Paranoia, commenting that one needs a permit to do everything except for purchasing firearms.
    He punched journalist Piers Morgan three times over of The Mirror’s coverage of Clarkson’s private life and accusations that Clarkson did not write his columns in the sun himself.
    He was criticized for reconstructing a train accident in which people thought was insensitive, coming just two days after a fatal train crash in Cumbria.
    He has drivable cars he hates destroyed.
    He called Gordon Brown a ‘one-eyed Scottish idiot’.
    The BBC regularly received complaints from viewers offended by comments he made about a car’s nationality or what country he is in; example, ‘German gives Hitler salutes, and GPS only leads you to Poland’.
    He often makes negative remarks about Americans, America and American Cars.
    Referring to striking public sector workers, he said: 'I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.' (December, 2011)
    In his column on Hurricane Katrina, he wrote ‘Most Americans barely have the brains to walk on their back legs,’ and went on to claim that starving black people in New Orleans were being shot by helicopter gunships rather than being rescued.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He makes 'Top Gear' a lot more interesting to watch.
    He has been credited as a major factor in the resurgence of 'Top Gear' and making it one of the most popular TV shows in the world.
    He has been a 'Top Gear' presenter since 1988.
    He is not afraid to say what he wants.
    His comments are mostly tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken seriously.
    He believes what he says has no influence on what people do and proved it by mentioning how he said Ford Orion was the worst car ever, but went on to becoming the one of the best selling.
    He laughed off being pied in the face by a radical environmentalist when accepting an honorary degree from Oxford (some people he pisses off deserve to be).
    He has been married to his second wife since for over twenty years.
    He reportedly has a clean license.
    He co-created the shows popular character 'The Stig.'
    An online petition to make him prime minister had almost 50,000 signatures when it closed, but despite that, he thinks he'd be a rubbish prime-minister'.
    He said ‘I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money, it's rather vulgar’.
    He provided his own voice for a Tomtom GPS system.
    Most 'Top Gear' fans would not watch the show without him

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 90 Votes: 52.22% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 29 Votes: 51.72% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 19 Votes: 21.05% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 37 Votes: 45.95% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 68 Votes: 48.53% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 89 Votes: 40.45% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 244 Votes: 72.54% Annoying