Jeremy Clarkson

My worst year

I am on holiday with Jeremy Clarkson in Barbados. Sorry, I am working and he is working. He’s out here filming the new, as yet unnamed Amazon Prime version of Top Gear. I am interviewing him. “This is work!” he shouts over the squirrel spray of the jet ski, then skids at 45mph to douse me in seawater. “Work!” he insists as we stroll the length of a spongy beach, look around the island’s oldest church, eat warm banana bread and suck at rum sundowners against the bouncing chromatic beat of a steel pan.

But when a woman with a flute of pink fizz floats over in a nightie to ask for a selfie, Clarkson barks, “Can’t you see I’m on holiday?” And this…Read the full article on The Times