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Jeremy Clarkson admitted he was awful at his first job as he looked back at his decades-long career.
Before he was a Top Gear mogul, the 63-year-old presenter started out in sales at his mother and father’s toy company after struggling to find a job as a teenager.
However, the Clarkson’s Farm star admits he was a “terrible salesman” and his first job was a “disaster”.
Writing in his latest Sunday Times column, Jeremy explained that he had trained as a journalist and initially applied for jobs at a car magazine.
When “that didn’t work”, he decided to try his luck with advertising companies.
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He said: “I wrote to all of the advertising agencies that had a car account, asking for a job in their copywriting department.”
Despite interviewing, he had no luck so ended up getting a job as a travelling salesman for his parents’ toy company.
He confessed: “It turned out that I was a terrible salesman.
“I’d walk into a toyshop and ask the owner if he’d like to buy a stuffed dog or maybe a preposterous 3ft-tall felt Captain Beaky. He’d say “No” and I’d say “OK” and that would be that.”
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Being a car fanatic, he was over the moon that he was able to drive a company car. He was given a Volkswagen Scirocco which featured a fuel injection.
Despite not being his dream job, he reflected that he “loved that car” and having the “ability to move about and see things”.
Jeremey quipped: “In my first year on the job I sold absolutely nothing at all.”
But the job meant he was able to do a huge amount of driving, travelling to and from Swansea.
His passion for motors eventually transpired to reprising his role as a Top Gear host in 1988.
He has spent over 35 years in show business as a successful presenter and journalist.
In 2018 he took over from Chris Tarrant and presented the popular ITV show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?
However, in recent years he has focused his time on farming.
In 2008 Jeremy bought a farm in the Cotswolds which he named Diddly Squat – to indicate its lack of productivity.
According to the Evening Standard, he initially purchased the farm because you do not have to pay death duties on land.
However, he has massively got into farming which led to him filming his Prime Video, Clarkson’s Farm.
After premiering the third series earlier this year it became the most-watched original series on the platform in the UK in 2023.
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