Jeremy Clarkson: Millionaire host
Jeremy Clarkson, 60, shared that there was a moment while talking with an ex-girlfriend that made him realise he needed to “broaden” his career horizons, and make the leap to London. The motoring expert was working at the Rotherham Advertiser at the time, and living in his hometown of Doncaster.
After a dull day in the office, Jeremy discussed how his office had acquired new furniture with his partner, and at that point realised he had become “uninteresting” as a person.
This initiated a major move in both his personal and professional life, as he packed up his belongings to head down south.
Opening up on his move to London in the ’70s with podcast host Andy Jaye, he revealed: “I had a girlfriend in Doncaster and I came home from work at the Rotherham Advertiser one day and said to her, ‘We have got some new office furniture in the office today’… and I thought, wait a minute, that’s the most interesting thing I can think to say.
“I think it is time I broaden my horizons. So I left and came to London, with no job, no money.”
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Once moving to the capital, he described struggling with the “notion” of working for someone else, as he was determined to run his own business.
He previously told Desert Island Discs: “I couldn’t really work this notion of working for someone else.
“I was living in Fulham in south-west London, a real Thatcher heartland, and everybody had their own little business doing up houses, a million different things, print shops and so forth.
“And I thought I’ve got to have one of these little businesses. So I forced myself to have an idea a day,” he added.
“He was opinionated and irreverent, rather than respectfully po-faced.
“The fact that he looked and sounded exactly like a twenty-something ex-public schoolboy didn’t matter.
“Nor did the impression there was a hint of school bully about him. I knew he was the man for the job,” he added to BBC.
Jeremy began presenting Top Gear in 1988 by reporting on a junk sale, in a style devoid of irony.
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