[VIDEO] Jeremy Clarkson - Who Do You Think You Are ?
"I'm the product of 200 years of interbreeding - I'm surprised I haven't got one eye!"
The history of one of a historic motoring icons.
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Bold, brash and bouncy he may be, but when Top Gear guru Jeremy Clarkson first clapped eyes on his family tree he was devastated to discover that most of his ancestors seemed to have lived their lives decidedly in the slow lane.
"Take the Clarkson name back to its Yorkshire roots and they all come from within a few miles of each other," he says despairingly.
"I'm the product of 200 years of interbreeding - I'm surprised I haven't got one eye!" He has - and it's on the main chance.
Clarkson also uncovers the fact that one of his forbears is not only called Kilner, but was a glass manufacturer - the inventor of the world-renowned and still used Kilner jar perhaps?