By Joe Jeffrey
In a classic case of the bullied becoming the bully, does Clarkson’s revelation explain why he hates caravanners so much?
Jeremy Clarkson has spoken out on being subjected to bullying whilst at boarding school and the detrimental effect it had on his own wellbeing.
The former Top Gear presenter, known for his very own bullying behaviour towards caravanners and those who refuse to provide him with a hot meal, revealed all in his weekly column in the Sunday Times this past weekend, describing how he ‘suffered many terrible things’ including being subjected to being thrown into ice-cold pools, receiving severe beatings and having his property destroyed during his time studying at the prestigious Repton School in Derbyshire.
Clarkson wrote: “I was thrown on an hourly basis into the icy plunge pool, dragged from my bed in the middle of the night and beaten, made to lick the lavatories clean and all the usual humiliations that public school used back then to turn a small boy into a gibbering, sobbing, suicidal wreck.
“In the first two years the older boys broke pretty much everything I owned,” he continued.
“They glued my records together, snapped my compass, ate my biscuits, defecated in my tuck box and they cut my trousers in half with a pair of garden shears.”
Clarkson, who attended Repton during the 1970s, was expelled shortly after completing his O-levels upon being caught smoking and drinking in local pubs. His friend and Top Gear producer, Andy Wilman, also attended the school.
Clarkson’s admission follows recent claims made by him that a BBC executive had recently offered him his old job back as Top Gear presenter following being suspended indefinitely for assaulting a production team member after filming his last episode of Top Gear – a claim which has since been denied by BBC director general, Lord Hall.
The revelation comes as quite a shock to us here at CaravanTimes, despite studies often revealing that the bullied usually become the bully, but perhaps this would explain Clarkson’s incessant, unruly behaviour and unhealthy obsession concentrating on the destruction of caravans.
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