The former Top Gear and Grand Tour host has spent more than 40 years on TV and is adored by millions of fans worldwide.
At its peak, BBC’s Top Gear was watched by 350 million people worldwide to become the most watched factual show ever.
The motoring journalist lives on a 1,000 acre farm called Diddly Squat between Chadlington and Chipping Norton in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
Thanks to his Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm, life on the farm has ushered in a new era and more fame for the 66-year-old.
Such is the success of Mr Clarkson’s career that The Times has reported there are calls among his fans to make him Sir Jeremy Clarkson, for services to journalism.
The newspaper reported: “There are calls among his online fans for a knighthood in recognition of his body of journalism, including 38 years of TV work that spans, as well as cars and farming, standalone documentaries on subjects as diverse as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Arctic convoys and a daring British wartime raid to destroy Nazi U-boats.
“Having several times been passed over for a Bafta, he scoffs at the prospect of establishment recognition.”
Responding to the calls, Mr Clarkson said: “I never got above the rank of private to the school CCF [Combined Cadet Force]. I didn’t even make lance corporal.”
Mr Clarkson said that if he was nominated, he wouldn’t want it to be for services to farming or television but rather ‘cheering people up’.
“I like to think I cheer people up,” the journalist-turned-farmer said. “Though I also p**s lots of people off, so it evens out.”
Clarkson’s Farm will return to Amazon Prime on June 3.
