The presenter was captured sleeping out in his backyard, before his daughter Emily Clarkson awakened him with a blast of ice cold water over his head.
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Clarkson took the ice dousing in good humour, and later used Twitter to challenge Top Gear co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May to make their own ice bucket videos.
The viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge campaign has raised more than $41.8 million (£24.6m) for those who suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
And now as you seen some of the best from celebrities, the best is yet to come, yes my time has come and in the next hour I will have undertaken the #icebucketchallenge