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Jeremy Clarkson

English television presenter, journalist and author (born 1960)

Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English television presenter, journalist, farmer, and author who specialises in motoring. He is best known for hosting the television programmes Top Gear (2002–2015) and The Grand Tour (2016–2024) alongside Richard Hammond and James May. He also currently writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun. Clarkson hosted the ITV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (2018–present), and co-hosts the farming documentary show Clarkson's Farm (2021–present).

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 for the BBC 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, and has written numero

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Andy Wilman

Full name

Andrew Neville Wilman

"The original reason they wanted me on Top Gear was to do consumery investigative stuff. But Watchdog were really doing that better. So they wanted somone to be naked more often. My first piece, I was in a sauna. Then I went to do limousines and I was naked in the back in a Jacuzzi. And then the full big frontal which was the Nude Classic Car Show. I thought that was gonna be great for my career, but now I star in porn films, which is what's paid for my car."

―Andy Wilman, 1999

Andy Wilman is the current executive producer of The Grand Tour and the former executive producer of Top Gear. Wilman and Clarkson were responsible for much of that era of Top Gear's style and humour. Wilman and Clarkson were childhood friends from Repton School in Derby.

Wilman's career on Top Gear started in the original format, as he was presented at least 38 segments from Series 32 in 1994 through to Series 45 in 2001, only 2 of which were regular roadtests. In 2002, after the original show's demise, he along with Clarkson, took contro