Jon Bentley (born 1961) is an English journalist and television presenter; he was educated at Millfield and at Oriel College, Oxford.
Bentley specialises in television production and journalism in the field of motoring. Between 1987 and 1999, he was producer and executive producer of BBC Two's Top Gear and was series producer of Fifth Gear from 2002 to 2004. As a producer on Top Gear, Bentley helped "discover" Jeremy Clarkson and hired Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson. He also has a corner named after him on the Top Gear test track.
Bentley presented The Gadget Show on Channel 5 in the UK alongside Ortis Deley, Suzi Perry, Pollyanna Woodward and Jason Bradbury, where he accidentally revealed his personal mobile phone number in a Gadget Show Web TV episode in November 2008. In February 2012 it was announced that the show's format was changing, it is now known as The Gadget Show: World Tour and features two of the previous presenting team Jason Bradbury and Pollyanna Woodward. Occasionally, he also presents on Fifth Gear. He is married with two daughters.
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“The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times—the cat not even once.”
—W.E. Farbstein. Quoted in “Hundkeit,” Mondo Canine, ed. Jon Winokur, Dutton (1991)
“Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
—Richard Bentley (1662–1742)