Jason Barlow is a motoring journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland. He began his television career in 1998, when he was approached to present Channel Four's new car programme Driven, with co-presenters Mike Brewer and James May. In 2000, he was personally approached by the then-controller of BBC2 to present Top Gear, and he went on to front 53 editions of the programme prior to its relaunch in 2002, with Jeremy Clarkson. Still under contract to the BBC, he presented BBC2's motoring programme from 2002 to 2003. Barlow won the award for 'Spectacle Wearer of the Year' in 2001.