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Clarkson on the year he lost his job, his home and his mum: Ex-Top Gear host gives an extraordinary interview revealing the pain of going from hero to zero
02:58 GMT, 21 March 2016
08:22 GMT, 21 March 2016
Spiral: After a successful career and personal life, three years ago Jeremy Clarkson's
'luck stopped' For years, Jeremy Clarkson has seemed like the world’s luckiest man. He’s skipped though life: happy childhood, good school, beautiful blondes and a fabulously successful career in journalism and TV.And he has always seemingly confident — laughing, behaving badly, drinking, smoking and crashing cars.He has been rude, funny and politically incorrect about anything and everyone, the ultimate middle-aged lad, with more than six million Twitter followers who hang on his every provocative word.Along with co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond, he turned the BBC’s Top Gear into a global phenomenon and made more than ?30 million.However badly he behaved, however many feathers he ruffled, everything always seemed to work out fine.Until three years ago when, as he puts it himself in a riveting interview in The Times Magazine published this weekend: ‘My luck stopped suddenly.’Since then, he has been sacked by the BBC, split from his girlfriend Phillipa Sage, lost his home and in 2014 his mother died after a five-year battle with breast cancer.The cumulative events triggered a very un-Clarksonesque response. He took himself off ‘somewhere like a prison’ for a month to clear his head and calm down a bit.He insists it wasn’t rehab, but it sounds very like it — he stopped drinking, practised early morning yoga, went to bed at 10pm and stayed off the booze for a few months.But it turns out that a lot of the Clarkson we know and love (or loathe) isn’t quite as it seems.
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He says everything is just an act and the Jeremy Clarkson persona so beloved of TV viewers is not the real him.Jeremy, it seems, is actually a far more sensitive flower, who cries at the memory of his mother and loves ornithology, and has been carefully camouflaged by his very acerbic wit ever since he was 14 years old and bullied at boarding school.He was beaten every night with empty Globe-Trotter suitcases. ‘There’s more give in a Globe-Trotter suitcase than there is in a skull . . . Head, back, shoulders, buttocks. Maybe you’d get the odd bruise from the corner . . . In the morning, we were hurled into the plunge pool, which was freezing.’
Loss: Clarkson was well known for his bad behaviour but after being sacked by the BBC and the death of his mother, he decided to take himself to a retreat where he practised yoga and tried to live a healthier lifestyleIt caused an epiphany. He realised that, to stop the bullying, he had to make his tormentors laugh. After all, they couldn’t be angry with him if they were in fits of giggles.It was a good plan. And it worked for years — diffusing tricky situations, easing him through the endless scrapes he’s found himself in ever since the early drinking, smoking and bunking off days of school, through his early days as a journalist on the Rotherham Advertiser and as a young motoring correspondent in London.In his a newspaper columns and on Top Gear he’s rarely held back — entertaining and offending in equal measure — recklessly upsetting villages, homosexuals, women, car manufacturers, Norfolk and even entire nations on the way.
On Top Gear, Clarkson, pictured with his co-presenters Richard Hammond (left) and James May (right), rarely held back — entertaining and offending in equal measure
Like the time he drove a Toyota Hilux into a 30-year-old horse chestnut tree to test the vehicle’s strength and the BBC had to apologise unreservedly to a Somerset parish council and pay a ?250 fine.His viewers guffawed. And they lapped it up when he explained the Porsche 911 range with the help of three models (one with naturally large breasts, one with implants and one with smaller breasts — the first being the turbo, the second being the Carrera 4S and the last one being the Carrera 4).But then the complaints started to mount from, among others, the Argentinians after he made an incendiary programme that seemed to drop heavy hints about the Falklands War and he had to flee the country. Campaigners also deemed his use of the word ‘slope’, when filming in Burma, was racist.And, most damagingly, he clashed endlessly with Danny Cohen, the politically correct BBC’s director of television at the time.‘Danny and I were, and I suspect will remain for ever, very far apart on every single thing,’ he says now.
Fight: Clarkson clashed endlessly with Danny Cohen (right),
BBC’s director of television,
during his time on the hugely successful Top Gear‘Normally, you could find some common ground with someone, but I think Danny and I could probably only get on perfectly well so long as we absolutely never had to think about each other.’ He seemed to enjoy winding up Cohen, claiming he was berated by the BBC executive and summoned to his office two years ago after he had tweeted a picture of his black West Highland terrier — and revealed he had named it Didier Dogba — after the former Chelsea star, Drogba.‘I confirmed it was true. He [Cohen] said: “What colour is it?” And I said: “It’s black.” And he said: “You can’t call your black dog after a black football player.” So I said: “Why not?” Would you rather I called it John Terrier? [A play on former England captain John Terry].’Cohen was not amused. Perhaps Clarkson had just got too big for his boots. In the interview with Charlotte Edwardes in The Times, he warns of the dangers of catching what he calls ‘c*** flu’ — the spoilt diva illness that plagues those with fame and fortune, with flunkies hanging on their every word.It’s a syndrome in which people who have everything want an even bigger boat or helicopter.He’s suffered from bouts of it himself. In rural New Zealand when he fancied playing the board game Risk, he sent a minion all the way to Auckland to buy a set.Last year, of course, was steak-gate.
Clarkson famously punched Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, pictured, during a row over a steak dinner and the incident proved to be the final straw for his BBC careerWhen producer Oisin Tymon didn’t have a nice hot steak supper waiting for Clarkson in a North Yorkshire hotel after a long day filming, he called him a ‘lazy Irish c***’, punched him in the face and cut his lip. (He has recently apologised and settled for an undisclosed fee rumoured to be over ?100,000.)It was the final straw.After 27 years with the BBC, Clarkson was sacked from Top Gear. More than a million people signed a petition for him to be reinstated, but Cohen had had enough.It was a low point. To make things a million times worse, Clarkson’s mother Shirley’s death when he was in Moscow doing a live show coincided with the BBC’s inquiry into his ‘slope’ comment. This meant they kept calling him when he was grieving.He claims he pleaded with them to let him be. ‘But they wouldn’t . . . It went on and on. It was very tricky. So there was quite a lot of pressure that year even for a jovial soul like me to handle. I was very close to my mum.’
Clarkson's grieving over his beloved mother Shirley, pictured,
was often interrupted by
the BBC’s inquiry into his ‘slope’ commentIt was Shirley who earned the money to send him and sister Joanna to boarding school by making Paddington Bear toys (licensed by Paddington author Michael Bond) from their 400-year-old farmhouse in Doncaster. His dad, Edward, was a travelling salesman who sold tea cosies and cooked endlessly.Somehow, Clarkson muddled through last year. The month in ‘non rehab’ sounds like it helped. And though he loathed the yoga, perhaps he picked up something.During The Times interview, he had such a bad hangover he spent much of one day at the bottom of a swimming pool with an oxygen tank because he wanted to get away from everything.When his scuba instructor tried to persuade him to surface, he wouldn’t: ‘It was so peaceful down there. Why would I want to come out?’He is also very much back on the booze (but ‘not as much as James May’) cracking into his first beer at 11.15am. He smokes endless Marlboro Lights and, with his pot belly and florid face, looks a likely candidate for a massive coronary. Though he does have a personal trainer and toys with tennis.He doesn’t believe people are capable of change, and that everyone’s character is set in stone from a very early age.‘Everything else is a mask,’ he says, echoing his earlier theme.For all his bravado, he says he cares what people think and, on Desert Island Discs in 2003, admitted to a guilty conscience about those on the receiving end of his wit.‘In the wee small hours you do think: I wish I were a nicer person. I wish I could be nicer about people and things,’ he said.‘But then in the heat of the moment, a month later, when you’ve perhaps had too much coffee . . .’For such a show-off, he’s candid about his shortcomings. While he’s a natural broadcaster and can chat happily while driving round a hairpin bend at about 600mph, he insists he is rubbish at pretty much everything else remotely practical — putting up pictures, opening bottles, playing tennis, understanding a car engine, cooking or skiing (‘I look like a bus driver having a c**p’.)
Clarkson, pictured filming with Hammond and May, claims that Top Gear is the only thing he’s ever done really well in his lifeHe claims Top Gear is the only thing he’s ever done really well in his life.So it was perhaps inevitable that, after he was fired by the BBC, Clarkson, with May, Hammond and a good chunk of their production team, set up their own company.A year on, his unhappy blip is over, his mask is firmly back on and it is business as usual.Once more, he and the team travel to exotic places, blow up cars, drink heavily, chain smoke, tweet daft photos and upset as many people as they can as they make a new middle-aged laddish car show for Amazon Prime that sounds exactly like Top Gear.
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&&&&& Nate suffered a hard blow when he lost his job. His boss had spoken rudely, "Your services are no longerneeded." Nate left the building filled with despair. By the time he reached home, he was in a deep depression. When he entered his house, he blurted out to his wife Sophia, "I lost my job. I am a complete, absolutely failure." A tense silence followed. Then a smile crept across Sophia's face. "What great news!" she responded,"Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write." &&&&& "But I have no job and no prospect of a job," he objected, completely without hope. "If I struggle to be anauthor, then what will we live on? Where will the money come from?" Sophia took her husband by the handand led him to the kitchen. Opening a drawer, she took out a box that was full of cash. "Where on earth did you get this?" Nate gasped."To whom does it belong?"&&&&&&&"It's ours!" Sophia replied. "I always know that one day you would become a great writer only if you were given the chance. From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week, I have saved as much as I could so you would have your chance. Now there is enough to last us a whole year." &&&&& What a surprise! What encouragement! What a wife! The unemployed husband did concentrate on writing that year, and the novel he wrote became a literary masterpiece (杰作). The book is The Scarlet Letter. Sophia had an even greater achievement, and she turned Nathaniel Hawthorne from a poor clerk into a world famousmaster.
1. Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph?
A. Sophia was very disappointed to hear the news. B. Nate was too sad to speak any more. C. Sophia was thinking of how to encourage Nate.D. Neither husband nor wife had any idea of what to do.
2. Sophia saved money because _____.
A. she knew her husband would lose his job one dayB. she knew their life would be in difficultyC. she was very careful with money D. she was trying to help her husband in every possible way
3. From the passage we can know that Sophia was _____.
A. kind and brave B. careful and encouraging C. friendly and warm-hearted D. honest and determined
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Sophia's AchievementB. A Great Writer's Struggle to Success C. Great Encouragement in Hard Times D. Failure is the Mother of Success
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Nate suffered a devastating blow when he lost his job.His boss had spoken rudely,"Your services are no longer needed." Nate left the building filled with despair.By the time he reached home,he was in a deep depression.When he entered his house,he blurted out to his wife Sophia,"I lost my job.I am a complete,utter failure." A tense silence followed.Then a smile crept across Sophia’s face."What great news!" she responded."Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write.""But I have no job and no prospect of a job," he objected,completely without hope."If I struggle to be an author,then what will we live on?Where will the money come from?"Sophia took her husband by the hand and led him to the kitchen.Opening a drawer,she took out a box that was full of cash."Where on earth did you get this?" Nate gasped."To whom does it belong?""It’s ours!" Sophia replied."I always knew that one day you would become a great writer if only you were given the chance.From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week,I have saved as much as I could so you would have your chance.Now there is enough to last us a whole year."What a surprise!What encouragement!What a wife!The unemployed husband did concentrate on writing that year,and the novel he wrote became a literary masterpiece.The book is The Scarlet Letter.Sophia had an even greater achievement,and she turned Nathaniel Hawthorne from a poor clerk into a world famous master.46.What would be the best title for the passage?A.Sophia’s Achievement C.Great encouragement in hard times 47.The underlined sentence in the first paragraph suggests ________.A.Sophia was very disappointed to hear the newsB.Nate was too sad to speak any moreC.Sophia was thinking of how to encourage NateD.both husband and wife had no idea what to do48.Sophia saved money because _________.A.she knew her husband would lose his job one dayB.she knew their life would be in difficulty C.she was very careful with moneyD.she was trying to help her husband in every possible way49.From the passage we can know that Sophia was ______.A.kind and brave B.careful and encouragingC.helpful and warm-hearted D.clever and determined答案是acdb能不能说下原因!文字我是看懂的呀 想问的是49道为什么不能选择A,46为什么不能选择c
这篇文章的主题就是sophia鼓励她失业的丈夫振作起来而成为一名作家的~你做题的时候就围绕它这个主题进行合理的选择就可以了.48题中不能选B,因为它没有上下文支持这个观点~
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