Jeremy Clarkson net worth: Staggering wealth as £29 million Grand Tour payday revealed

Jeremy Clarkson is an English television presenter who is widely known for presenting Top Gear, which he first presented in 1988.  He shot to fame presenting the show and also had a huge stake in the Top Gear brand.  Along with his co-presenter, Richard Hammond, 49, and James May,56, Jeremy is expected to cash in on a £29 million surplus their Grand Tour company has been left with.  The presenter and businessman co-founded his own production company and has worked as an author which will have all topped up his bank account.

Jeremy Clarkson net worth

The presenter has a fortune of around £46 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

What’s more, he is expected to make a whopping £15 million per year from his ventures.

Jeremy Clarkson was born on April 11 1960 in Doncaster, England.

He headed up the BBC show, Top Gear, from 1989 until 1999 and appeared on the show again from 2002, and it was one of the most viewed television shows in the world.

It has been estimated around 350 million people watched each episode of Top Gear, when international replays were considered.

Jeremy reportedly made £3 million per year for presenting the show, but on top of that he had other stakes in the brand.

Owning 30 percent of the rights to Top Gear, he took home a cut of the profits from all DVD sales, syndication and merchandise, which topped up his salary by up to £9 million per year.

In 2013, BBC bought back all the rights to the show and Jeremy banked around £15 million for this deal.

On top of his work as a presenter, Jeremy has topped up his bank balance by working as a journalist and writing columns for the Sun and the Sunday Times.

After leaving his job at Top Gear in 2015, he co-formed the production company, Chump Holdings Ltd, which helped him produce the series, The Grand Tour, for Amazon Prime.

From this show, he is sure to greatly added to his wealth, and it has now been revealed the company has a surplus of nearly £29 million, which Jeremy will split between the company’s co-founders, Richard Hammond and James May.

Jeremy also has a collection of luxury cars which are thought to be worth a huge fortune of their own.

Other TV presenters with a huge fortune are the Britain’s Got Talent hosts, Ant McPartlin and Decland Donnelly. 

The double act are thought to be worth around £62 million each.

Their Britain’s Got Talent co-star, Simon Cowell, 59, has a net worth of around £436 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. 

source: express.co.uk