Jeremy Clarkson Questions Family History With Mother | Who Do You Think You Are

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Host of Amazon Prime's The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson is best known for hosting BBC motoring show Top Gear, and back in 2004 he decided to delve into his family tree. Jeremy Clarkson goes in search of a family fortune, on the way charting the rise and fall of British manufacturing.
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  • @jonathantang6414
    @jonathantang64144 жыл бұрын

    it's her honda jazz!

  • @violentlyh

    @violentlyh

    4 жыл бұрын

    A jazz for a Jezza !

  • @AntJoseph_

    @AntJoseph_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly my thought!

  • @JonasOnAutos

    @JonasOnAutos

    3 жыл бұрын

    Her jazz Is still on the road! It has valid MOT until the 19 of November 2021

  • @freddieparrydrums

    @freddieparrydrums

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JonasOnAutos Yup, I saw that! So is the Renault from the mum run

  • @irfaan7868

    @irfaan7868

    Жыл бұрын

    Jazz has now been exported ..

  • @cyn1clcynide
    @cyn1clcynide4 жыл бұрын

    "I've come to pick your brains before senility takes you in the night."😂

  • @thesoundvault508

    @thesoundvault508

    4 жыл бұрын

    “It’s got me it’s too late” 🤣🤣

  • @raygt6370
    @raygt63704 жыл бұрын

    The sense of raw humor between Jeremy and his mother is fantastic. I know this scene is about 10/15 years old, but you can clearly see how these people are fond of one another.

  • @mattlyon1672

    @mattlyon1672

    3 жыл бұрын

    Were fond of one another. Unfortunately Jeremy Clarkson's mother passed away a few years ago.

  • @aidan1585

    @aidan1585

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah this is from 2004 but sadly she passed away in April 2014

  • @roderickmoose7756
    @roderickmoose77564 жыл бұрын

    For a brief second I thought it was Jeremy and Elton John…

  • @Josh_H148

    @Josh_H148

    4 жыл бұрын

    Roderickmoose I thought for a second it was James May and Jeremy Clarkson

  • @Noxx_Jones

    @Noxx_Jones

    4 жыл бұрын

    Haha you're not the only one

  • @HXLproductions

    @HXLproductions

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or one of the beejees

  • @AngryTurds

    @AngryTurds

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or mason verger? From silence of the lambs!

  • @ms.antithesis

    @ms.antithesis

    3 жыл бұрын

    ... Hot

  • @nathansikner2560
    @nathansikner25604 жыл бұрын

    I can't help but laugh at the thought of having Jeremy Clarkson as a son :D

  • @dronespace

    @dronespace

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Kerorofan1990
    @Kerorofan19904 жыл бұрын

    "She was a right old c**t" Yup, that's definitely his mom.

  • @sonkor7334
    @sonkor73343 жыл бұрын

    Thank you mother for giving us such an amazing person and the most lovely guy in the world

  • @yourischins4182
    @yourischins41824 жыл бұрын

    For a moment the thumbnail looked like Jermy Clarkson and Bernie Eccelstone.

  • @business3867

    @business3867

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was Elton John

  • @Daniel-xo5ej

    @Daniel-xo5ej

    4 жыл бұрын

    She's so much at once: Elton John, James May and Bernie Eccelstone.

  • @baskorotejo92
    @baskorotejo924 жыл бұрын

    its been a while since that moms race on top gear

  • @ellispick4281

    @ellispick4281

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mum

  • @seanrommel7535

    @seanrommel7535

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mum you baboon

  • @Codatronic
    @Codatronic4 жыл бұрын

    You can really see the family resemblance here.

  • @attwoodtv5384

    @attwoodtv5384

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your profile picture, huh it just felt so nostalgic seeing the pagani zonda, the same picture i saw 7 years ago when i was younger, have it as a wallpaper on my old intel atom notebook, god i miss the good old days

  • @lisakaz35
    @lisakaz353 жыл бұрын

    RIP Mrs. Clarkson.

  • @mateuszskwarski3418
    @mateuszskwarski34184 жыл бұрын

    I am surprised that Jeremy did not comment on the colour of his mother's car :)

  • @jacobrumens9601
    @jacobrumens96012 жыл бұрын

    His mum was such a sweetheart RIP 😢

  • @hazzaknox1069
    @hazzaknox10694 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah youtube recommendations

  • @marcelliusika

    @marcelliusika

    4 жыл бұрын

    weird isn't it

  • @frazerguest2864
    @frazerguest28644 жыл бұрын

    As a proud Yorkshireman, I agree that Jeremy is correct about Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire.

  • @cutiel7237
    @cutiel72374 жыл бұрын

    My ancestors were Kilners, my grandma was a Kilner, from Yorkshire but I don't think I have a connection to the famous Kilner jar family lol, maybe a remote connection possibly.

  • @donelmore2540
    @donelmore25403 жыл бұрын

    His mother looks younger than he does.

  • @MustPassTruck
    @MustPassTruck2 жыл бұрын

    My great grandfather was a millionaire doctor who did lots of charity for children. His wife and 6 children were left destitute after all the people that owned him debts refused to pay and every debt he owed was suddenly demanded paid by his widow.

  • @williamwallace4080

    @williamwallace4080

    2 жыл бұрын

    He sounds like a good man.

  • @QUARTERMASTEREMI6

    @QUARTERMASTEREMI6

    2 жыл бұрын

    Aww… your great grandfather sounds like such a wonderful guy! I can’t believe everyone refused to pay him back and then his widow demanded payment! 😧

  • @silverkitty2503

    @silverkitty2503

    Жыл бұрын

    You mean his widow demanded payment from the people who owed him before he died?? A dead man cannot pay to his widow?? lol

  • @ac2244
    @ac22444 жыл бұрын

    Man he’s aged. Still love him tho.

  • @nathanbell8356

    @nathanbell8356

    4 жыл бұрын

    He lives a high octane lifestyle

  • @MrSteveo114

    @MrSteveo114

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nathan Bell I.E he’s an alcoholic

  • @CBlasser

    @CBlasser

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was 2004. You've aged too.

  • @benmatheson1189

    @benmatheson1189

    3 жыл бұрын

    man age in 20 years

  • @stevenroberts5741

    @stevenroberts5741

    3 жыл бұрын

    Chase Blasser let's put it another way, he's not aged well. 😶

  • @b8yep959
    @b8yep9594 жыл бұрын

    I thought I was clicking on clarkson interviewing Elton John when I saw the thumbnail

  • @apa100
    @apa1004 жыл бұрын

    Smokers whole family can hear on mother's voice

  • @cha2117
    @cha21174 жыл бұрын

    According to wiki it was lost in a court case over the chimneys interfering with the clean air he is a great-great-great-great grandson of John Kilner. China is producing the Ravenhead name of the jar now.

  • @Nikelaos_Khristianos

    @Nikelaos_Khristianos

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Ravenhead", is that Ravenscroft by any chace? That was their seal once the glass stopped cracking. If so, that could just be the name and seal.

  • @lucius6667

    @lucius6667

    4 жыл бұрын

    The pottery factory is down road from me sadly all gone now only the quarry face it was built in is left and now there's a bridge there now still can find bits and Bob's down there tho

  • @perhougaard3536
    @perhougaard35364 жыл бұрын

    It is so weird watching something with Mr. Clarkson, without him being the narrator.

  • @cricketcycle3951

    @cricketcycle3951

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah

  • @AmblingMan
    @AmblingMan4 жыл бұрын

    interesting continuity at 4:54, jumps mother's house in Nottinghamshire straight into Chipping Norton Oxfordshire, whilst heading off to Yorkshire in a jump worthy of kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves :D

  • @westminsterwatcher5152
    @westminsterwatcher51523 жыл бұрын

    "The first sign of a wet cushion in our house - and we'd push her off Beachy Head" HAHA!

  • @kiatsumi7355
    @kiatsumi73554 жыл бұрын

    A big F and respect for his mom, she's truly a legend

  • @zanderdrivescars
    @zanderdrivescars4 жыл бұрын

    Clarkson mom is the embodiment of Clarkson

  • @RichardSmith-qw7kh

    @RichardSmith-qw7kh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi how are you doing today???

  • @chaoszombie9995
    @chaoszombie99954 жыл бұрын

    Could we get one with James May and Richard Hammond?

  • @kylesewell7794
    @kylesewell77945 жыл бұрын

    "She was a right old cu----" 😂

  • @ricwhite612

    @ricwhite612

    4 жыл бұрын

    cow but means the same thing

  • @tK-be6ns
    @tK-be6ns2 жыл бұрын

    JC should get a Kilner set and start using it on his farm

  • @TheMDJ2000
    @TheMDJ20004 жыл бұрын

    What a fabulous woman.

  • @comealongcomealong4480

    @comealongcomealong4480

    3 жыл бұрын

    Spirited ! the language she used about her grandmother Kilner !!

  • @jona899
    @jona8994 жыл бұрын

    I'm the only one who thought he was talking with Bernie Ecclestone in the thumpnail?

  • @drphill6615
    @drphill66154 жыл бұрын

    Thanks KZread suggestions

  • @1066gaz
    @1066gaz4 жыл бұрын

    i was born & bred in the rotherham area of south yorkshire and went metal detecting in conisborough castle grounds in the 80's when i was a kid. Found an early 20th century silver shilling as well.

  • @lxdimension
    @lxdimension4 жыл бұрын

    When clarkson still spoke with a posh voice! lol - Pre 2005!

  • @shaneweightman
    @shaneweightman4 жыл бұрын

    Thought that was Berni Eclestone

  • @andyaitken4243
    @andyaitken42434 жыл бұрын

    I would love Jeremy’s mother, tells it how it is.🤣🤣

  • @sglenny001

    @sglenny001

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's just the North

  • @ryanjones7417
    @ryanjones74174 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else think that was Elton john

  • @paulritchie5868

    @paulritchie5868

    4 жыл бұрын

    No,just you.

  • @mathewferstl7042

    @mathewferstl7042

    4 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @thestig7603

    @thestig7603

    3 жыл бұрын

    or Scotty Kilmer

  • @manicmechanic448
    @manicmechanic4484 жыл бұрын

    Mom's side of the family were coffin makers, and farmers. Dad's were bowl makers, and poets. And every one that wasn't was a soldier or a coal miner.

  • @bnap3221

    @bnap3221

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are you talking about your family?

  • @KE-ph1ss
    @KE-ph1ss4 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy’s mother looks very young.

  • @chefboyardee8278
    @chefboyardee82784 жыл бұрын

    Mrs Clarkson looks a lot like Scotty Kilmer

  • @macbookboy2

    @macbookboy2

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rev up your engines

  • @tantosendjaja8438

    @tantosendjaja8438

    3 жыл бұрын

    Scotty kilner

  • @maxwellpants5158

    @maxwellpants5158

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tantosendjaja8438 scotty clarkson

  • @garybarrett4881
    @garybarrett48813 жыл бұрын

    His mum seems really nice.

  • @lxdimension
    @lxdimension4 жыл бұрын

    His mum created the most masculin car journalist....... IN THE WOOOOORRRLLD!

  • @dimitrijensk2845
    @dimitrijensk28459 ай бұрын

    1:30 I LOVE Mrs Clarkson XD

  • @nb7466
    @nb74664 жыл бұрын

    Dang he pulled out a map. I can remember doin that with my parents. Until map quest came along. You miss a turn though your screwed

  • @QUARTERMASTEREMI6

    @QUARTERMASTEREMI6

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I remember printing out directions and I’m Gen Z! 😅

  • @mig7290
    @mig72902 жыл бұрын

    These Victorian era millionaires were very interesting. That whole era was. The architecture, the atmosphere, the raw capitalism. Now you get people getting stupendously rich who never even were desperate to be rich.

  • @jjb2004mk2
    @jjb2004mk23 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy looks older than his mum.

  • @ellentaulbut9474
    @ellentaulbut94743 жыл бұрын

    I am currently very confused because the narrator sounds EXACTLY like my history teacher... lol

  • @Concetta20
    @Concetta203 ай бұрын

    I know it’s been said before, but it is ironic and sweet that Clarkson has truly gone back to his roots and is harvesting barley now.

  • @frannydarko2698
    @frannydarko26984 жыл бұрын

    "Giraffe " 😂😂

  • @Patmanduu
    @Patmanduu10 ай бұрын

    She’s amazing!

  • @jakecaywood6345
    @jakecaywood63454 жыл бұрын

    That thumbnail made me think that was Scotty Kilmer omg I’m dumb

  • @thisoldnurse1521
    @thisoldnurse15214 жыл бұрын

    Is a Kilner jar like a Mason or Ball jar for putting up preserves, jams pickles etc. ??

  • @KidMillions

    @KidMillions

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, same concept, but Kilner patented his design well before Mason. To avoid the patent Mason made the lid out of metal.

  • @gwynwilliams4222
    @gwynwilliams42223 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather's family were rich and no one knows what happened to the money it's common thing to happen

  • @danielpassarelli4176
    @danielpassarelli41764 жыл бұрын

    Who woul have thought, james may is Jeremy´s mother😂

  • @lindapesnell5723
    @lindapesnell57235 жыл бұрын

    ❤️ Thank You ❤️

  • @davidjohnston7512
    @davidjohnston75123 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy’s Mum sounds like a wise woman.

  • @davidsewellclarke4997
    @davidsewellclarke49973 жыл бұрын

    My Great Great Great Grandfather is a a Ghost , at the Homestead Inn in Bracebridge Heath in Lincolnshire. Not much of a claim to Fame . But the saying goes there's always Ghost somewhere in your family .

  • @awesometv6464
    @awesometv64642 жыл бұрын

    Clarkson is so funny!

  • @natelav534
    @natelav5344 жыл бұрын

    Lmao jeremy is always such a clown but he has so much respect for his mom.

  • @englishcloud6299
    @englishcloud62994 жыл бұрын

    How dare Clarkson insult Staffordshire like that!!

  • @meeeka
    @meeeka4 жыл бұрын

    what his mother describes is a Mason Jar, the jar that one boils, as opposed to the flip lid jar, which I first saw in France.

  • @mencken8
    @mencken84 жыл бұрын

    Unless someone in the family has a n interest in this subject, it all fades away pretty quickly. We are lucky to have had one or two.

  • @bnap3221

    @bnap3221

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don’t care.

  • @mencken8

    @mencken8

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sam Ludendorff Yeah, me neither- hence the outcome.

  • @MrWolfSnack
    @MrWolfSnack3 жыл бұрын

    Shirley Gabrielle Clarkson passed away in April 2014, 1 year before Clarkson's row with the BBC. Based on Wikipedia information, this was filmed in 2008. "Shirley returned briefly to Home Farm and Burghwallis in June 2008 to film a piece for the BBC TV One Show to coincide with the launch of the book."

  • @Glamrockqueen
    @Glamrockqueen4 жыл бұрын

    Was enjoying this, till he started on Staffordshire. And did anyone notice, as he waved his Mum tara, he didn't say Love you? Or am I the only one that did that?

  • @blobba5442
    @blobba54424 жыл бұрын

    If i ever see Jeremy Clarkson’s mother, ill give her a tomica honda jazz.

  • @Ardiin

    @Ardiin

    4 жыл бұрын

    She's long gone

  • @ehfos
    @ehfos4 жыл бұрын

    when did this come out?

  • @Wahian1

    @Wahian1

    3 жыл бұрын

    2004

  • 3 жыл бұрын

    Mum lives like a queen. no worries!

  • @JokobZuma
    @JokobZuma4 жыл бұрын

    A little weird that I was a few months old when this was filmed

  • @emmafrances7830
    @emmafrances78304 жыл бұрын

    i live in whitwood ahahaha

  • @mcrettable
    @mcrettable4 жыл бұрын

    they seem like the same age

  • @NorthernMafia8
    @NorthernMafia83 жыл бұрын

    Everytime I see the thumbnail I keep thinking its bernie Eccelstone

  • @beijingpete
    @beijingpete3 жыл бұрын

    Never mind your mother Jeremy, you can't event remember to put your seatbelt on before you start driving

  • @pureserenity524
    @pureserenity5242 жыл бұрын

    0:38 Why does his mother sound like she's one of the "The Muppets"?

  • @tK-be6ns
    @tK-be6ns2 жыл бұрын

    Killner jars would have been less profitable as fridges and freezers became in use, people start buying prepackaged fruit and preserves......

  • @sophiee.h
    @sophiee.h Жыл бұрын

    2 November 2004

  • @maxschon7709
    @maxschon7709 Жыл бұрын

    It is that the place of Clarkson farm where is mother was living?

  • @philiphawley2915
    @philiphawley29152 жыл бұрын

    The ‘Kilmer’ jar Clarkson showed us was an American ‘Mason’jar

  • @philiphawley2915

    @philiphawley2915

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sorry, I spelled‘Kilner’ wrong

  • @naeem-hf7xx

    @naeem-hf7xx

    Жыл бұрын

    i think his mother got them mixed up, i googled it and mason jars are the screw ones whereas kilner jars are the latched sort, i’m from South Africa so we don’t get mason jars all that often, we use kilner jars most of the time

  • @naeem-hf7xx

    @naeem-hf7xx

    Жыл бұрын

    i watched further on, yes the kilners made a screw top like his mother had said but idk why when i googled it, it showed me those latch types

  • @craigwilcox5223
    @craigwilcox52234 жыл бұрын

    Who knew Mick Jagger was Jezza's Mum?

  • @craigwilcox5223

    @craigwilcox5223

    4 жыл бұрын

    @John Cena Tbf, it could be Andy Warhol...

  • @johndonohue4153
    @johndonohue41533 жыл бұрын

    Varry niace😂

  • @Patrick.Weightman
    @Patrick.Weightman4 жыл бұрын

    and i thought his accent was thick

  • @jeffmattel7867
    @jeffmattel78674 ай бұрын

    1:30 Hell Yeah! She is 100% Jeremy's mom. LOL

  • @Danie1_l
    @Danie1_l Жыл бұрын

    People saying there family’s was like millionaires and so on meanwhile mine on my dads side was just basically some of the worst criminals and on my mothers side was Scotland from Robert the Bruce

  • @2steaksandwiches665
    @2steaksandwiches6654 ай бұрын

    Ha. My mother would tell me to go away if I opened her door without knocking.

  • @cricketcycle3951
    @cricketcycle39514 жыл бұрын

    hi

  • @jeweetzelf380
    @jeweetzelf3802 ай бұрын

    a social Animal 🎉❤

  • @ln9895
    @ln98954 жыл бұрын

    up the donny boys

  • @dominicc3521
    @dominicc35214 жыл бұрын

    Is Liam Neeson the Narrator ?

  • @jamescranford4845

    @jamescranford4845

    4 жыл бұрын

    David morrissey

  • @MTDfilms

    @MTDfilms

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sean bean

  • @neildutton8077
    @neildutton80773 жыл бұрын

    Clarkson, many pies ago.

  • @BeeABaw
    @BeeABaw9 ай бұрын

    Kilner Jars in America are known as Mason Jars.

  • @teanshin
    @teanshin4 жыл бұрын

    Very rarely you can see that mother ans son look the same age.

  • @OiBlake
    @OiBlake4 жыл бұрын

    Clarksons family is from Nottingham, never would think

  • @chrisdavidson911

    @chrisdavidson911

    4 жыл бұрын

    you've never heard the story about the Porsche 928?

  • @boxofmoles4057
    @boxofmoles40574 жыл бұрын

    Confident that he's a descendant of a very long line of arses.

  • @robbrandon4625
    @robbrandon46254 жыл бұрын

    Come on Jeremy buy your Mum a new car

  • @lyleangelo5510
    @lyleangelo55104 жыл бұрын

    Be honest you all thought this was top gear didn’t u

  • @wwbdwwbd
    @wwbdwwbd4 жыл бұрын

    This video feels jarring for some reason. It really jars, doesn't it?

  • @manicmechanic448

    @manicmechanic448

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boo!

  • @smooothest

    @smooothest

    4 жыл бұрын

    I got on KZread to get away from my dad's jokes.

  • @jameshudson169
    @jameshudson169 Жыл бұрын

    driving north? shouldn't jeremy be RACING north?!

  • @jesteralk
    @jesteralk4 жыл бұрын

    Elton mama

  • @joshuataylor3550
    @joshuataylor35503 жыл бұрын

    He has a really long face

  • @kat13man
    @kat13man3 жыл бұрын

    Probably a ford.