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Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about the hell he suffered at school.

The former Top Gear presenter - who is set to launch a new show - revealed the hell that left him a 'suicidal wreck' after he was relentlessly tormented by cruel bullies.

"As the years dragged by I suffered many terrible things," he wrote in the Sunday Times.

He added: "I was thrown on an hourly basis into the icy plunge pool, dragged from my bed in the middle of the night and beaten, made to lick the lavatories clean and all the usual humiliations that public school used back then to turn a small boy into a gibbering, sobbing, suicidal wreck.

"In the first two years the older boys broke pretty much everything I owned. They glued by records together, snapped my compass, ate my biscuits, defecated in my tuck box and they cut my trousers in half with a pair of garden shears."

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Clarkson recently claimed he had been offered his old Top Gear job back by an unnamed BBC executive.

However, BBC Director General Lord Tony Hall insists he wasn't asked.

Lord Hall was on the Andrew Marr show on BBC One when he said he had "no idea" about Clarkson's claims he had been asked to return to the show.

He said: "I have no idea what all that's about." He added: "I made it absolutely clear when I said we were going to part company that that was it."

Axed presenter Jeremy claimed that he had met with a BBC executive who had asked him to rejoin Top Gear, which the BBC has also denied happening.

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A spokesperson for the BBC said regarding Clarkson's claims: "We haven't offered another Top Gear contract and the BBC had placed on record its thanks to Jeremy for his broadcasting on the programme and wish him well for the future.”

But Clarkson's pal Carol Vorderman has backed up his claims saying she was there when the supposed meeting took place.

The TV brainbox had been at the May Fair Hotel at the same time as Jeremy and he told her what happened afterwards.

Carol told the Sun that she believed what he was saying, and she had also known the BBC exec Jeremy had met with for several years.

She said: " It was obvious there was a conversation going on. I sat on the table behind them. I could not hear what they were saying."

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To help beat depression or suicidal thoughts go online to samaritans.org or call 08457 90 90 90.