And the list can go on and on, because this name, for better or for worse, is the talk of the town.
The proof of that is a simple Google search, it provides pages and pages of results and tons of informations, opinions, videos, insults and lauds and a correct profiling from all these bits it's a hard challenge.



The best way I found to resolve this issue is to analyze real facts, so let's start from here.

• He is a middle age English man.
  Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson is born in Doncaster (West Riding of Yorkshire) the 11th of April 1960 and currently he lives in Chipping Norton (Oxfordshire).


• He is married and has three children.
  He married his manager Frances Cain in May 1993 and his children are Emily, Finlo and Katya.
  His family appear in some of his shows (Top Gear, Who Do You Think You Are, F-Word with Gordon Ramsay) and is cited in many articles. His book “I Know You Got Soul” is dedicated to his family.


• He is a journalist/writer.
  He regularly writes columns for two mass-market English tabloid The Sun and The Sunday Times and for Top Gear Magazine too. He has written several books.


• He works for the BBC Television.
  The BBC television series Top Gear is currently presented by him, Richard Hammond and James May. In the past he presented many other programmes quite all broadcasted on BBC Television.


• He tests car.
  He writes car review for Times On Line, Top Gear Magazine and his main roll in Top Gear Show is car (normally supercars) testing.


• He owns various cars and loves Ferrari.
  He owns a Ford GT, a Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, a Ferrari F355, a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, a Jaguar XJR and many, many others. About Ferrari se once said

  "I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God."

Right, this is a (partial) list of matters of fact that can be easly proven surfing the Wikipedia website or any other website with his biography.
These facts are helpfull for the general analysis.



Now, there are over the Internet many other apparently real facts that can be helpful for a correct profiling.
This list has a lot of hyperlinks to external websites to demonstrate the truthfulness of what I'm writing and this is important because these facts are the base of my conclusion.

1. He has an opinion about anything.
   Cars and cars manufacter, environment, politic, people, technology...
   In his books or in the Times On Line website you can find out what he writes about and what he thinks. Another big source is the Top Gear Show, even if this is perhaps not so reliable like the other two. Anyway, in all cases, it's easy to find out that he can write or speak about let's say tourism and, with the same lightheartedness, about the global warming. No distinctions for him at all.


2. He takes apparently stupid decisions.
   The very best example is in January 2008 when he lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. In that occasion he said:

   "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."

   and yes, he was...


3. He dislikes many things and people.
   About American cars in his DVD called The Good, the Bad and the Ugly he slams the Corvette Z06, disses the Mustang, insults pickup trucks and kicks Harley-Davidson and in this video, which is an extract of a Top Gear episode, he says about Americans:

   "...everybody is very fat, everybody is very stupid and everybody is very rude. It's not the Holiday programme, it's the truth."

   
   In 2009 he called Gordon Brown

   "One-eyed Scottish idiot"

   and, before that, he has insulted him three times over accusing him of being a liar, having a go at him for having a physical handicap and for his nationality.
   
   He dislikes too: Members of Parliament, Piers Morgan, rural protectionists, animal-lovers, style-watchers, cyclists, and many others.
   
   He has no problem at all to say who and what he dislikes and for this reason he has been censurated by The Times for an article about Peter Mandelson he wrote in 2009.


4. He doesn't matter about environmental issues.
   Something he wrote:
   January 2007, The Times On Line:

   "I am also fearful that unless we stop thinking of ways to prevent global warming, and start to address the problems it will cause when it gets here, our children are going to finish their days in an overcrowded, superheated vision of hell."

   
   February 2007, The Times On Line:

   "Global warming’s coming, so you can don your King Canute hat and stand on the beach waving your Toyota Prius at the advancing heatwave, but it won’t make a ha’p’orth of difference."

   
   And again one month later, in March 2007, in The Sun:

   "I'm not a scientist, but I read enough scientific literature to know the whole global warming theory is bonkers. A complete fairy story."

   
   For this sceptical take on green politics environmentalists are always ready to accuse not only him, but the whole BBC crew.


5. He is criticized by many organization.
   An example can be found in the Sunday Times (June 2, 2002), he joked that he had spent the day hunting rats using tennis racquets and croquet mallets. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals issued a warning to him as a result of this comment.
   
   Once again he joked that lorry drivers spend their time "murdering prostitutes" and because of this The Road Haulage Association, which represents Britain's 9,000 haulage companies, has demanded a public apology from the presenter.


6. He gains a lot of money.
   According to The Guardian, in 2009 he earned around £1m for presenting Top Gear, he owns 30% of Bedder 6 and as a result he have collected £479,000. He also received a £350,000 fee for "payment for services".


7. He gets angry and sometimes violent.
   In October 2003 Clarkson threw a glass of water over Piers Morgan (then editor of the Daily Mirror) while the two were exchanging insults during the last Concorde flight and again in March 2004, at the British Press Awards, Clarkson punched Morgan in the head several times, because the editor published allegedly compromising pictures of him kissing his BBC producer, Elaine Bedell.
   
   There are two more examples.
   In 2008, while on private holidays in Barbados, he threatened a young boy apparently very badly, because he took a picture on him.
   
   The last one is in December 2008, Clarkson threw a pen at Private Eye editor Hislop after he jokingly made comments about his newspaper column.


8. He is a patron of a charity.
   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 after wars such as Iraq and Aghanistan and in June 2008, he stepped in as a celebrity drummer for Chipping Norton School’s Jazz Band, and then signed his drum for a charity auction.


9. He is the worst-dressed celebrity.
   Well, you can see it, but two facts proove it.
   Louise Foster of Draper's Record, trade magazine to the fashion industry, said:

   "For a period in the late Nineties denim became unfashionable. 501s in particular suffered from the so-called "Jeremy Clarkson effect"

   and he also received a fashion makeover in 2002 from fashion gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine on a celebrity edition of their style series "What Not to Wear" where he had previously been named as one of the world's worst-dressed celebrities by the two fashionistas.


10. He is columnist most consumers would pay for online.
    Continental Research asked respondents to choose which columnists whose content they would be most to likely pay for online and Clarkson came out on top.

Now, let's begin the hard job: my personal analysis.

Clever
He has been able to use all his skills to get to be what he is now and this is not so common, cleverness is not sufficient to archive this goal, a massive dose of character, stubbornness and humility are needed too. Of course his family helped him a lot and certainly luck did not ignore him, but the fact is that you can’t argue (or make laugh) without being clever.

Charismatic
He is definitely a showman, and being a focus of attention is something he likes a lot.
It can't be different from that, he is the perfect man of the show, he is popular, he is nice, he is extroverted...
Charge him with a beer and a cigarette and he will stagger you.

Arrogant
Because of his popularity and his, let's say, "possibilities", he can live free without fears.
I mean, all of us have opinions about things and people, but we take them often for us, because we are terrorize of possible consequences (dismissal, injures, summons...), but in the case of Jeremy Clarkson he has the privilege to public insulting people and saying without hesitations what he thinks about no matter what and this attitude demonstrates his nonchalant, his temerity, his nerve, his bravery and yes, his arrogance too. But he's anything but stupid.

Self-contradictory
He always claims he doesn’t matter about environmental issues and is a true petrolhead, but he own a Volvo XC90 diesel

“It’s because of the environment”

he once said in Top Gear.
More than this in his house he does the collection of items for recycling.

Provocative
He is an English man and has a lot of sense of humor, but this feature is used by him (and somethimes abused) not to make laugh, but to enjoy himself. He is literally a provocateur and when people get hurt, they get angry with obvious consequences for him and public opinion. But, despite that, luckly there are people who undestand that it's only a big joke.

Lighthearted
He lives his life right to the end, having a lot of fun and spending his money.
Every situation (telly, Internet, magazines, public appearance...) is good for him to claim what he owns, what he does, where he goes and, on the spot, you may think he is a boaster, an exhibitionist, a braggart, but what I think is that he is proud of himself and a little vain, but the important thing is that he has nothing to hide. Yes, he is rich, much rich and so what? He's not the only one...

Impulsive
Another consequence of his popularity is that he becomes hot-tempered when his pride or his private life are violated.
Some of Jeremy's reactions may result too aggressive and full of blunders, but try to change the point of view: a public offence or a personal fact in the first page of magazines and all over the Internert cannot be ignored, well I wouldn't, and anger and bad and impulsive actions would be only the beginning. As men, we always try to protect ourself and our loved ones and this is not a fault.

Altruist
Apart from the charity, there are others reason to tell you that.
He is married since 17 years so a lot and every time he talks about his family, you could feel all his love, a love that only a true father and husband can have. Apart from the Piers Morgan feud I did not find any other suspicious situation that can question his deep love for the family.
His family is not the only thing that make me think he's lovely and thoughtful, Hammond's accident is the other one. He was truly preoccupied for him, also James May confirmed this and in this video you can clearly see that Jeremy doesn't want to joke...

Sexy
He is informal, he is direct, he is nice and yes he's not the most attractive man in the world, but once he said:

"As is the way with girlfriends, once you start to like the character, you begin to see handsomeness even when there is none"

and maybe this is true.

Loved
Despite all the other 9 points above, some good and some not, he is loved by many people, people with a lot of sense of humor and not so envious and touchy.

Jeremy, you are only a man like us, with strengths and weaknesses, and the only difference between you and us is that you are well-known and we are only normal citizens of this world.


So now, tell me what you think, leave a comment.