Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he was badly bullied as a child at school but his mother had a brutal reaction that he has now shared in his latest column
Jeremy Clarkson has spoken candidly about his childhood(Image: NurPhoto, NurPhoto via Getty Images)
TV presenter and former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he was bullied as a child.
In his latest column in The Sun Jeremy Clarkson writes about his mother’s brutal advice when he was bullied at school.
It comes as Jeremy Clarkson has labelled Springwatch presenter Chris Packham’s remarks ‘b******s’ after the naturalist voiced his grievances about Clarkson’s Farm during Friday evening’s episode of Celebrity Gogglebox.
Chris launched into a tirade while watching an episode of the Amazon Prime Video series for the Channel 4 programme, on which he appears alongside his stepdaughter Megan McCubbin.
He fumed in response to Jeremy‘s hit show: “Already, right, that’s not what a farm looks like. Most farms are horrible monocultures, which have been sprayed with deadly chemicals time and time again. The ground is pumped full of fertiliser, and loads of the animals are indoors in crates, being crushed and kept in the dark.
“That’s an idealistic view of a farm, and it puts the wrong idea in people’s minds. And that’s only the titles!” He then turned to Megan and asked: “What’s my blood pressure?”
Jeremy has now fired back, revealing that Chris actually visited Diddly Squat Farm in 2012, spending the day in the woods “foraging and bird watching”, suggesting the BBC presenter ought to know better having seen the farm firsthand.
While Jeremy claps back at critics now rewind to his school days it seems he was less confident.
Clarkson wrote in The Sun: “When I was a kid, I sobbed to her one night that everyone at school was bullying me and she replied: “Well, if everyone is bullying you, you must be doing something wrong.”
“Today, she’d be arrested for even thinking such a ridiculous thought. And so would all of the kids who’d been bullying me. And she’d be in jail with Sam Neill’s mother for mental health abuse in the community. But I wonder. Did our parents have the right idea? And have we now lost the plot?”
He added: “After my mother said I was being bullied because I was doing something wrong, I worked out that I was a bit of a prig.”
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