Jeremy Clarkson’s first wife has branded him a “bully and a hypocrite” in an interview with the Daily Star on Sunday as she revealed details of their alleged 10-year affair.

Clarkson's alleged affair with Alex Hall was made public this week. Now, she told the Daily Star, because "of his lies and bullying I have to fight back and defend myself", and she will continue with her plans to write a book about their marriage. She insisted that she was loyal to him but that now she had "had enough".

In fact, she still loves him and "has feelings for him", even resulting in the failure of her second marriage, she told the newspaper in the revealing interview.

The pair reconnected in 1999, when they met up after a lunch they enjoyed together in Notting Hill. Hall reminisced:

“We chatted, had some wine, the TV was on in the background. One thing led to another and it seemed perfectly natural to end up in bed. It was just like the old times, like we’d never been apart".