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He's the outspoken television personality whose views have long courted controversy.

But Jeremy Clarkson has hit headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks amid the ongoing backlash over his controversial Meghan Markle column.

The ex-Top Gear frontman, 62, is battling to save his broadcasting career after it was widely reported that he is set to be dropped from his lucrative roles with 'Clarkson's Farm' and 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?'.

MailOnline understands that both Amazon and ITV, who are said to pay Clarkson a combined £13million each year, are considering axing the controversial broadcaster.

But, after amassing a personal fortune worth well over £50million, the veteran journalist could choose to step away from the spotlight altogether and retreat to a simpler life.

Born to humble beginnings in Doncaster in 1960, Clarkson's career began as travelling salesman before he started training as a fledgling journalist on the Rotherham Advertiser.

He won his big break and served as the host of Top Gear from 1988 to 1998 during its original run, where he began to establish his broadcasting career and emerged as one of the most ubiquitous TV personalities in the UK - pocketing at least £1million-a-year from the BBC in his heyday.

It was from this early success that Clarkson delved into the commercial element of television, with his Bedder 6 company picking up six-figure dividend payments while he became a household name across the globe with Top Gear.

Clarkson's cashflow has been fuelled further by income from scores of bestselling books, DVDs and columns for newspapers and magazines over the years. 

It's understood that Clarkson could also pocket £25,000 a pop each time he takes to the lucrative after dinner speaker circuit - an exclusive club that is normally reserved for politicians, business magnates and former world leaders. 

In 2018, after his acrimonious split with the BBC two years earlier, Clarkson picked up his £3million-a-year Who Wants to be a Millionaire? hosting gig with ITV.

Amazon were also prepared to make the veteran broadcaster the highest paid television host in Britain when they offered an eyewatering £160million to Clarkson and Top Gear chums Richard Hammond and James May for the trio to reunite for The Grand Tour. 

His personal car collection, which boasts a mix of luxury cars and more practical day to day motors, is estimated to be worth more than £500,000.

The journalist's sprawling Cotswold retreat, the scene for his hit television show, Clarkson's Farm. was purchased in 2008 and is said to be worth more than £6million today.

It comes as Mr Clarkson's television career is said to be hanging by a thread after Amazon and ITV both hinted at dropping the former Top Gear star. 

Fans of the 62-year-old fear he is being 'cancelled in front of our very eyes' after it was reported that Amazon Prime is set to stop producing the presenter's shows - Clarkson's Farm and The Grand Tour - next year, the latter of which earns him at least £10million annually. 

Meanwhile, ITV bosses said they had no 'commitments' to further editions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - fronted by Clarkson - beyond the upcoming, already-commissioned series. 

Although one director insisted back in December that Clarkson, thought to earn around £3million per year from the quiz show, had not been sacked over his remarks 'at the moment', the recording of Millionaire celebrity specials were suddenly pushed back last week due to 'scheduling issues'. 

It comes as some critics today implored the Sussexes to 'move on' from the 'drama', suggesting their quest for the 'total humiliation' of Clarkson by publicly rejecting his apologies goes against the 'compassion and love' that they so often preach. 

However others branded Clarkson's contrition insincere, accusing the TV star of failing to address the offence caused by his column and of being motivated by his own lucrative career interests. 

Opinions were just as divided online, with supporters of Clarkson blasting 'woke' TV executives for 'cancelling' the star. Several claimed they had ended their Amazon Prime subscriptions in protest. 

But others said Clarkson had a 'long history of messing up', with one thanking Amazon, telling the company in a tweet that she would have cancelled her membership had they had not 'dropped' his series. 

In a public rejection of his apologies, the Sussexes' cheerleader, Omid Scobie, last night tweeted a statement from a spokesperson for Harry and Meghan, accusing Clarkson of 'spreading dangerous conspiracy theories, and misogyny' - claiming it was 'not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate.'

In his column for the Sun newspaper last month, Clarkson said he 'hated' Meghan Markle and wanted to see her paraded through the streets naked while people throw 'excrement' at her - apparently referencing a public shaming scene from the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. 

Following outrage, he wrote to the Sussexes to apologise on Christmas Day - although the couple later claimed his letter only addressed Harry directly - before he shared a lengthy public apology on his Instagram account yesterday.  

But historian and broadcaster Dr Tessa Dunlop told Good Morning Britain today that she did not accept his apologies 'on numerous levels'. 

Speaking to presenters Susanna Reid and Ed Balls, she said: 'The way in which he apologised is flawed, and his behaviour over the long term is flawed. This is a man who has had numerous second chances...' 

She added: 'If you look at the way he actually approached this, he said to Harry, and apparently only to Harry, not to Meghan as well, you know ''I'm baffled by your TV show, but horrified by my own behaviour, I'm sorry'' - that's kind of a conditional apology... it's a bit like saying: ''Oh, I find your face really ugly but I'm sorry I punched it.' 

Ms Dunlop added: 'Secondly the timing stinks. If you rummage around in the small print, Amazon Prime is currently reviewing recommissioning The Grand Tour... this is a guy who's worried about his money-making empire crumbling because he hasn't been - to use his word - vigilant.' 

However, The Apprentice star and entrepreneur Bushra Shaikh, sitting opposite Ms Dunlop, said it was time for everyone to 'move on'. 

'Just accept it, and let's move one, we need to build some positivity, I feel like it's drama-centric, why are we going over the same thing again?', she implored. 

'It's Jeremy Clarkson. He's holding his hands up and he's saying ''I've done something wrong, I've said something wrong, it's not right and I'm trying to put this right'', and let's just move on.' 

It is not clear if any other projects of Clarkson have been jeopardised by the controversy. 

He is currently the presenter of the gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on ITV. Bosses at the broadcaster told MailOnline they were not offering any comment at this time. 

But when asked directly if Clarkson would be presenting the show, a spokesperson said ITV 'has a further

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