Blonde Phillipa Sage, 42 joined Clarkson in Australia, South Africa and Norway – and spent several nights with him in his hotel room.
They carried on their brazen fling while his loyal wife Frances was back at their country pile in the Cotswolds, where she runs his office.
Dad-of-three Clarkson, 50, was on holiday with his family in Barbados last night as his betrayal was exclusively exposed by the Sunday Mirror.
Our sister paper revealed how the close friendship between single mum-of-one Phillipa and 6ft 5in Clarkson developed when the Top Gear team got together after each show.
Twice-married Clarkson enjoyed a night out with wife Frances, his wife of 18 years, just 24 hours before he flew out to Norway where he shared a hotel room with Phillipa.
They were spotted outside celebrity haunt Scott’s in London after having dinner with friends. But Clarkson and the rest of the Top Gear party soon checked into Oslo’s £500-a-night five-star Grand Hotel, where the presenter was given a corner suite.
The following morning he and co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond were taken in two chauffeur-driven Range Rovers to the Spektrum convention centre. Clarkson was joined by Phillipa in the first car, with Hammond and May following in the second.
He fronted two live shows and eventually arrived back at the hotel shortly before midnight.
At around 1.15am, he and Phillipa went to his third-floor suite directly above Hammond’s room. Next morning the pair were driven in the same car as Hammond and May to the convention centre for two more shows.
In the evening, Clarkson rejoined his mistress and the team in the hotel’s rooftop bar, which was crowded with members of the public.
Hammond and May sat at the other end of the outdoor bar from Clarkson and Phillipa, who were sitting together under separate blankets, drinking white wine.
Shortly after 1am, he said goodnight to his colleagues and kissed Phillipa on the lips in full view of the group and public. Moments after he left, she slipped out of the bar, followed him into the lift and walked with him to his suite.
They remained in the room all night.
After the final show of the tour on March 27, Clarkson and Phillipa joined May and Hammond for an end-of-tour dinner at a restaurant in the centre of Oslo. Clarkson and Phillipa again spent the night together before both emerged on Monday morning.
The Top Gear party then flew home to the UK where Clarkson was reunited with Frances and their children, aged 16, 15 and 12.
In Australia the affair was also in full flow. Phillipa joined Clarkson at the five-star Palazzo Versace hotel near Brisbane – used by ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…
On March 6, he flew with her and other members of the tour to Hamilton Island, a luxury six-star resort near the Great Barrier Reef. They stayed in a £1,000-a-night villa with its own pool and took a helicopter to a quiet beach before returning to Melbourne for the final four days of the Australian tour. A week later, Phillipa and Clarkson were in Johannesburg for the next leg.
They were photographed on March 18, the day after their arrival, at the hotel pool and Clarkson was seen feeding Phillipa lettuce with his fingers by the poolside.
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