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"Amazing adventures. Apparently I was there." Richard Hammond For
over 12 years Phillipa Sage worked alongside Jeremy Clarkson,
Richard Hammond and James May as their PA, gofer, and fixer where
she saw the boys at their best and, hilariously, at their worst. A
closet petrol head, Phillipa started working in the motor industry
on live events over 20 years ago and first worked with Jeremy
Clarkson in 1997. She proved to be a loyal, trusted friend and
colleague to all the presenters—from back in the beginning with
Tiff Needell, Vicki Butler-Henderson and Quentin Wilson—to the
now infamous trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May, and was a key
member of what became known as 'The Bubble', the exclusive,
dysfunctional working family that toured the world. With an
enormous budget, they travelled like rock stars—with super cars,
yachts, private jets, helicopters, and five-star wining and
dining—taking their unique brand of motoring madness to 18
countries, 31 cities and to over 2 million fans in arenas and at
festivals from New Zealand to Norway. Supported by a large crew and
their personal entourage, Clarkson, Hammond and May, when not
performing in their extraordinary, high octane, live action,
motoring theatre, indulged in extravagant holidays. They and their
'Bubble' family relaxed in luxury resorts or private houses
entertaining themselves with pool parties, drinking,
heli-sightseeing, drinking, private motorboat cruises, drinking,
jet skiing, sailing, drinking and eating, and drinking. In Off-Road
with Clarkson, Hammond & May, Phillipa shares the tour highs,
lows and laughter of three clever, funny, and very stupid motoring
journalists.
"The highlights of my extraordinary journey with Mr Clarkson
included pizza with Harry and Wills; dancing with Mick Jagger on
the private island of Mustique (Mick had to pull me up after,
shamefully, I could not recover from the twist!); and having happy
birthday sung to me by Brian Ferry and Richard E. Grant. I was
asked out by Hugh Grant (and went!); partied at what I called Jimmy
Carr's celebtastic weekly house parties attended by Sir Elton John,
James Corden and the like; and, at Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch's
engagement party, I received the ultimate compliment on my outfit
from the Dame Joan Collins. The adventures, laughter, drama and
excitement were neverending. Party after party, celeb after celeb,
private villas, palaces, MPs and royalty adorned our crazy life on
this road less travelled. From the low-budget, dark, smoke- and
fume-filled halls of Earls Court Exhibition Centre and the NEC in
Birmingham, where the highlights of our nights out were a good
curry and gallons of beer followed by ridiculous games of
girl-on-girl arm wrestling and the Celebrity Loo Roll Challenge -
this entailed Clarkson, Hammond, May or The Stig having to return
from the bathroom with loo roll tucked down their trousers,
trailing a length of loo paper from cubicle to table without it
breaking - Jeremy ascended to great heights, both in his
professional career and his personal life. So too did our
relationship, leading us both into a social circle that most can
only dream of." In The Wonderful World of Jeremy Clarkson, Phillipa
Sage shares her continuing adventures - the ongoing highs, lows and
constant mayhem - she shared for so many years with Clarkson and
his fellow presenters, Hammond and May, some of which she had begun
to detail in her first book, Off Road with Clarkson, Hammond and
May.
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