Jeremy Clarkson tweets yearly brag about failing A-Level exams and living best life

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Jeremy Clarkson boasts about how bad his A-Level results were every year. (Amazon Prime)

Jeremy Clarkson has shared his annual brag on A-Level results day - reassuring students that you can fail exams and still live a luxury lifestyle.

The 62-year-old former Top Gear presenter - who now runs his own farm in the Cotswolds featured in Amazon Prime show Clarkson's Farm - has made a tradition of boasting about how great his life is, in spite of disappointing exam grades.

Clarkson shared a photograph of the view from a luxury yacht and tweeted: "Don’t worry if your A level results are disappointing. I got a C and 2 Us and I’m currently holidaying on this boat."

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Grade U stands for Unclassified, meaning the student did not meet the requirement for the lowest grade, E, and is classed as a fail.

Clarkson went to a fee-paying school and trained as a journalist at a local newspaper. He has achieved a successful career as a writer and broadcaster, landing his first presenting job on car show Top Gear in 1988.

His latest effort is reminiscent of his 2016 message when he wrote: "If your A level results are disappointing, don't worry. I got a C and two Us, and I'm currently on a superyacht in the Med."

Last year The Grand Tour star shared: “If the teachers didn’t give you the A level results you were hoping for, don’t worry.

Jeremy Clarkson hosting Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Jeremy Clarkson hosts Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on ITV. (ITV)

“I got a C and 2Us and I’ve ended up happy, with loads of friends and a Bentley."

In 2020 he tweeted: "A level results not great? Don’t worry, I got a C and 2 Us and I’m currently building a large house with far reaching views of the Cotswolds."

Past boasts from the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host have included: "If your A level results aren't great, be cheered by the fact that I got a C and two Us. And I'm currently sitting in a villa in St Tropez."

Jeremy Clarkson owns a fleet of supercars. (Getty Images)
Jeremy Clarkson owns a fleet of supercars. (Getty Images)

And: "If you didn't get the right A level results, don't worry. I got a C and 2 Us, and my chef is preparing truffles for breakfast."

Meanwhile, comedian, TV presenter and actor Romesh Ranganathan also confessed to having achieved low grades at A-Level.

The Weakest Link host told Good Morning Britain: "I did quite well at GCSE without doing any work and so I used that policy for A-Level and got found out pretty badly.

The Weakest Link host Romesh Ranganathan.
The Weakest Link host Romesh Ranganathan confessed he got disappointing A-Level results. (BBC)

"I ended up getting a C and two Ds."

Talking to host Kate Garraway about watching this year's students open their results live on the ITV breakfast show he added: "It just brought it all up, it's such a highly charged experience...

"I was really happy for the kids but also slightly hated them for doing better than me.

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"I'm hoping my mum's not watching, she's probably going to phone me up and go 'Why couldn't you be like them?!'"

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