Jeremy Clarkson recalled the moment he was rushed to hospital in Vietnam with an abscess (Picture: ITV/REX)
Jeremy Clarkson has recalled the moment he was rushed to hospital in Vietnam after an abscess left him in pain.
The Grand Tour presenter spoke to doctors in Saigon who then sent him to hospital for an operation.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Jeremy explained: ‘I said, “It’s nothing, I just need a doctor to pop around and lance this little abcess I’ve got.”
‘She [the doctor] said, “Where is it?” I said, “My abdomen.” She said, “Does it hurt?” I said, “Yes it does.” She said, “Which side?” I said, “Left side,” she said, “We’re sending an ambulance”…
‘By the time I’d finished explaining, the ambulance was there… In the ambulance, siren on, off to the hospital, doctor was there 30 seconds later and three minutes later I was on the operating table. Vietnamese health care.
‘There was a growth coming out of my abscess so they lopped it out. It’s a fabulous healthcare system.’
But the presenter admitted he’s not totally healed yet as the wound is still ‘leaking’.
Jeremy, who is currently working on The Grand Tour series four, added: ‘[The wound] is now as we speak [oozing out] because you can’t close the wound. I’m leaking! I’ve got a skin disease as well.’
Jeremy’s wound is ‘still oozing’ (Picture: ITV/REX)
He also spoke about his recent weight loss by going on a ‘gap year’.
Jeremy said: ‘I went on a gap year to Indochina. They just have a better diet out there.
‘Plus I had a bicycle rather than a car. Cycling is not a good thing to do, I’m all broken as a result of it but I did lose a lot of weight.
‘Where I was staying was separated from the small town by a mountain but it was much bigger than Everest. It was only 3 kilometres and I cycled it every day, I said “I can’t have a drink unless I cycle into town.” I wanted to get fit.’
The Jonathan Ross Show airs Saturdays on ITV.
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The host left the BBC show in acrimonious terms in 2015 amid claims he had a run in with a producer, seemingly disappearing into the night.
With the grand return to the spotlight on the Amazon Prime show later on alongside comrades James May and Richard Hammond, the three have now farewelled the show ‘as we know it’ and that got Jeremy all in his feels.
As he explained the show wasn’t leaving per se, just the tent with the audience, he began to well up in scenes that will stream today on the platform.
Now Jeremy has told The Sun he feels he got a little teary due to the fact he never got a proper goodbye to Top Gear, a show he dubbed ‘his baby’.
‘In 2002 I came up with the Stig, then an audience with a track and all that stuff. So, you know, you do something for 17 years and then it goes,’ the 59-year-old said this weekend.
He added: ‘The truth of it is, I think, I never got the chance to say goodbye to Top Gear. One minute I was there and one minute I wasn’t. It was like, did the show and then never did another one.
Jeremy Clarkson tears up in The Grand Tour season 3 finale (Picture: Amazon Prime)
‘Never said goodbye. Never got a gold watch. Never got a retirement speech. Nothing. So this was almost as though we were saying goodbye to Top Gear as well. That’s why it was so emotional for me.’
He wasn’t the only one who felt the feels as they said farewell, though, with ‘man of wood’ co-host James also letting his emotions out, as Jeremy said: ‘…behind the scenes were quite a few quivery lips. People who I’ve worked with for 20 years or so.’
While The Grand Tour will be returning for a fourth series, which is already a work in progress, the motoring juggernaut won’t be filmed in the same studio tent, with the trio setting off on various epic road trips in a similar fashion to their Mongolia special last week.
The Grand Tour season 3 finale is available to stream on Amazon Prime now.
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Jeremy Clarkson fondly remembered his dad on The Grand Tour, recalling the moment he felt ‘proud’ of him for driving a car he loved.
Clarkson explained that he was just a kid at school when his old man came to pick him up in a Ford 1600E.
Standing in the exact street where the heartwarming moment happened, he said: ‘You join me in Doncaster outside my old school.
‘I remember very clearly coming out of that door one afternoon in 1969, skipping along here, coming round this gate post here, and I noticed that parked over there was a 1600E – an E – in amber gold, just like that one.
‘And in it was my dad, and that was impossible. The E was the absolute king of the hill.’
Getting a bit emotional about the memory, he went on: ‘It was beautiful and wondrous and exciting beyond words.
‘How I felt, my knees actually buckled. The hairs on the back of my neck are rising now in exactly the same way as they did in that autumn day 50 years ago.
Jeremy recalled the moment he saw his dad driving a Ford 1600E (Picture: Amazon)
‘I can also remember the enormity of the hug I gave my dad, because I was just so proud of him. I mean he had an E. An E stood for executive. That meant he was better than the Duke Of Edinburgh.’
Explaining why he got so teary, he told The Sun: ‘The truth of it is, I think, I never got the chance to say goodbye to Top Gear. One minute I was there and one minute I wasn’t. It was like, did the show and then never did another one.
‘Never said goodbye. Never got a gold watch. Never got a retirement speech. Nothing. So this was almost as though we were saying goodbye to Top Gear as well. That’s why it was so emotional for me.’
The Grand Tour is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
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After 300 people were arrested, the father-of-three lashed out by saying: ‘No. The police can’t do anything about knife crime because they’re having to deal with all those happy clappy eco vicars.’
However, it looks as though he has put his grievances behind him, as he was seen catching up with a friend in Notting Hill.
After season three of his motoring show The Grand Tour officially wrapped up earlier this month, it seems the presenter has some spare time on his hands.
On Tuesday afternoon, Clarkson and his buddy headed out for a bite to eat where they stopped off at the organic restaurant, Daylesford.
He was catching up with a friend (Picture: New Media Images / NW)
Jeremy explained that he was just a kid at school when his old man came to pick him up in a Ford 1600E.
Standing in the exact street where the heartwarming moment happened, he said: ‘You join me in Doncaster outside my old school.
‘I remember very clearly coming out of that door one afternoon in 1969, skipping along here, coming round this gate post here, and I noticed that parked over there was a 1600E – an E – in amber gold, just like that one.
The star has wrapped The Grand Tour (Picture: GC Images)
He appeared to be in high spirits (Picture: MT /GoffPhotos.com/KGC Photo Agency LLP)
‘And in it was my dad, and that was impossible. The E was the absolute king of the hill.’
Getting a bit emotional about the memory, he went on: ‘It was beautiful and wondrous and exciting beyond words.
‘How I felt, my knees actually buckled. The hairs on the back of my neck are rising now in exactly the same way as they did in that autumn day 50 years ago.’
He added: ‘I can also remember the enormity of the hug I gave my dad, because I was just so proud of him.
‘I mean he had an E. An E stood for executive. That meant he was better than the Duke Of Edinburgh.’
Jeremy recently confirmed that season four of The Grand Tour is currently underway, as he told a fan on Twitter: ‘Yes. I’ve been working on it for a while now.’
But until then we have the pleasure of streaming The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime.
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It was there that we saw Thanos wipe out half the world’s population – with Sir David speaking about the ramifications of overpopulation.
Is that what Jez is trying to say?
Fans were not happy, as they took to the comments section to accuse the beloved host of speaking about the film a little too early, as the #DontSpoilTheEndgame tag made its way around the internet with great fever by those not yet lucky enough to feast their eyes on the MCU flick.
One follower called Jeremy’s post a ‘magnet for spoilers’, perhaps seeing as you’ll get a whole bunch of trolls replying to the comment and threatening to tell all.
If you’re that guy and you’re reading this, don’t be that guy.
Another simply said: ‘Don’t ruin this for me, Clarkson.’
In the past David has spoken about the detrimental effect population growth is having on the planet, having said in the past: ‘In the long run, our population growth has to come to an end.’
When you compare him to Thanos, the Mad Titan who will come up against the Avengers in the final instalment in the Infinity Saga, Endgame, the purple lad did rid the universe of half of all living things in a way to create a more palatable planet for himself.
Still, whether or not Jeremy has spoiled the whole movie for punters remains to be seen, we’re fairly sure anyone with a solid social media following should just hold back from talking about Endgame for the next few days.
Just to be safe.
Avengers: Endgame is in cinemas now.
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What do Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s solo projects mean for The Grand Tour? (Picture: Amazon Prime)
Richard Hammond and James May have both announced their new projects branching away from The Grand Tour with the news of Jeremy Clarkson’s solo stint expected to be revealed imminently.
Work began in earnest a while ago for the next run of The Grand Tour, but there are changes aplenty when it comes to the trio’s future on the small screen.
The studio element – which has been part of The Grand Tour and Top Gear for 17 years – is no more, and there are other changes on the horizon and with our favourite group of gearheads making moves for solo careers, will things ever be the same?
It’s important to note that the future of Grand Tour still seems to be bright, with work already underway, according to Clarkson, and no end in sight. However, the paths of the presenters show that maybe after nearly two decades on air together, it might be time for a fresh start.
Over the years, all three of the boys have largely stayed in their lane when it comes to side projects, with related shows that gave them a chance to explore other options without taking too much away from the day job. James is the first to be lined up for his own Amazon Prime spin-off (with projects for the other two also in the pipeline), as good ol’ Jimmy taking centre stage for the first time with ‘Our Man In… Japan’ on Amazon Prime.
James May was the first to branch out from The Grand Tour with Our Man in Japan (Picture: Amazon Prime)
Chatting about the upcoming new show, he said: ‘Japan is the most amazing place I’ve ever visited. Everything about it is a surprise: a boiled sweet, a bullet train, an unexpected ancient temple, and the challenge of eating a single edamame bean with chopsticks.’
In the past this hasn’t been an issue because the troupe have managed to make related shows that didn’t step on the toes of what brought them to the dance, but the end of the studio element means that could all be changing.
There’s no reason to assume we’ve hit the end of the road for the boys working together, but the signs are there for them at least taking the opportunity to turn a corner and try something new.
With the Grand Tour changes meaning the series will be focused on essentially a range of specials in locations around the world, it’s safe to assume it will open their schedule up if they don’t have to spend extra time in the studio filming all the bits that go with it.
That could mean their attention wanders as they explore fresh ideas, but it also threatens to make The Grand Tour – dare we say it? – a little redundant.
Hear us out, OK? All signs point to The Grand Tour being made up of a series of road trip specials as James, Richard and Jeremy travel the globe, with the studio segments consigned to the past. If they each pop up doing their own spin-off shows – and if, like James’ Japan trip, it sees them jetting off to exciting places… what will be left to make their bread and butter stand out?
So obviously there’s the added focus on the cars, but a sizable amount of viewers certainly tune in for the interplay between the hosts. We could be facing a scenario where The Grand Tour loses part of what makes it stand out from the side projects (the studio audience), and the spin-offs themselves feel like pale imitations without the relationships that have kept such a loyal bunch of fans coming back for more.
James himself has even revealed in the past that the three of them don’t actually hang out or talk all that much outside of their professional lives – ‘I don’t miss them. We get p***ed off with each other, of course. But we are not as bad as Fleetwood Mac. It’s not a prerequisite to doing this show that we are mates off screen.’
So, without any firm friendship holding them together, it could finally be time for Jeremy, James and Richard to go solo and see what else is out there. They’ve already left the studio behind, and there isn’t a personal bond holding them together. We could be seeing things shifting, and it’s not clear if the future is actually as bright as we’d like to think.
The Grand Tour is available to stream on Amazon Prime now while Our Man In Japan is expected to air on the same service at a later date. Richard Hammond’s Big will likely air in 2019 on Discovery.
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Along with the show’s executive producer Andy Wilman, the three men are expected to share the multi-million pound surplus that was left behind when they made the decision to close it recently.
Representatives for Clarkson, Hammond and May have all been contacted by Metro.co.uk for comment.
The hosts have already confirmed the fourth series of the Grand Tour (Picture: Amazon)
According to The Daily Mail, their company Chump Holdings Ltd had a surplus of £28,927,645 after debts paid off in full.
Companies House records show that the company was originally set up in October 2015, just over a year before The Grand Tour launched in November 2016.
However, Clarkson, May and Wilman officially stepped down as directors of the company on 4 April, 2019.
Back in 2017, it was alleged that Amazon had paid the TV presenters £35.8 million to make The Grand Tour.
Published accounts showed that a profit just shy of £7 million was made, with £1.7 million handed back in corporation tax.
That translated into a salary of £2 million per installment of the first 13-episode online series.
The show itself was launched one year after Clarkson refused to renew his Top Gear contract in 2015 and Hammond and May followed suit.
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It was a brave fashion choice (Picture: Magic Moments UK)
Jeremy Clarkson made a brave fashion choice on Thursday wearing a very bright purple blazer paired with a patterned shirt.
Middle age but make it fashion.
Walking hand in hand with girlfriend Lisa Hogan, the pair looked happier than ever after two years together.
The 59-year-old Grand Tour presenter and Lisa attended the 10cc concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall and packed on PDA as they made their way home at the end.
Lisa rocked velour wide pants and a fringe jacket (Picture: Magic Moments UK)
As he joined Emma Bunton on The Jonathan Show, he was confronted about love, and caused Emma to ask the major question: ‘Are you romantic? Are you in love at the moment?’
Plain and simply, he just responded: ‘Yes.’
Lisa and Jeremy have been dating since March 2017 (Picture: Magic Moments UK)
‘I went on a gap year to Indochina. They just have a better diet out there. Plus I had a bicycle rather than a car. Cycling is not a good thing to do, I’m all broken as a result of it but I did lose a lot of weight,’ he said.
Lisa has been bringing out the adventurous side in him (Picture: Magic Moments UK)
‘Where I was staying was separated from the small town by a mountain but it was much bigger than Everest,’ he added.
‘It was only 3 kilometres and I cycled it every day, I said: “I can’t have a drink unless I cycle into town”, I wanted to get fit.’
The lovebirds made their first red carpet appearance together at the GQ Man of the Year Awards in September 2018.
Jeremy and Lisa, 46, met two years after he split from wife Frances Cain.
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The Grand Tour is struggling to find somewhere safe to send James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond (Picture: Amazon)
Jeremy Clarkson has spoken about how The Grand Tour season four’s travel plans have been scuppered by Isis.
The Grand Tour team held a production meeting with Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to decide where to send the trio for their next special.
But they had to rule out a lot of places due to ‘sporadic and vicious terrorist attacks’ that had taken place there.
In his column for The Sunday Times, he explained they had the idea to follow in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia from Saudi Arabia to Cairo.
Clarkson said: ‘This would be an epic journey, except it would mean crossing the Sinai peninsula and, thanks to Isis, the chances of us all arriving on the other side with heads were slim.’
He went on that the Andaman Islands, off the coast of Thailand, was also put forward, but ‘there’s a tribe on one of these islands that will kill anyone who lands.’
The presenter then suggested Australia but it was decided it wouldn’t be interesting enough, and the ‘relentless paparazzi’ would spoil everything that was going on.
The trio traveled to Mongolia for their last special (Picture: Amazon)
While he didn’t reveal whether they had picked a destination, he joked that they may be stuck in the UK for series four.
But we’re sure Clarkson, Hammond and May would still find a way to make that fun.
Fans are going to have quite a wait for new episodes (not only because they can’t pin down a location yet) as the hosts are going to be off doing their own thing for a bit.
The presenter will travel the world exploring the biggest feats of engineering.
While The Grand Tour is returning, the show as we know it won’t be as they have done away with the studio audience to create a series of specials in far-flung locations instead.
The Grand Tour series four is set to air on Amazon Prime.
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Will The Grand Tour just become another travel series without its studio audience? (Picture: Amazon Prime)
The Grand Tour is in for some big changes in season four as Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond wave goodbye to the studio and hello to life on the road.
After 17 years together on screen, the trio have said their final farewells to a format we’ve grown to love and expect over almost two decades, and we’re left with the excitement of the unknown. Except, it’s not really. Is it?
Change is a scary thing, and no one really likes it at first, but our issues with this one go beyond clinging to a style of motoring show largely unchanged since the boys’ days on Top Gear. It’s not that things shouldn’t change – of course things need to evolve – but honestly, this little alteration could be the end of what has set The Grand Tour apart.
The idea to ditch the studio segments in favour of more specials traveling the globe sounds great on paper, but it’s going to create its own issues. Variety is the spice of live, and by trying to shake things up, the team could be reducing the Amazon Prime show to something that feels more like a retread than a trailblazer.
The Grand Tour isn’t Top Gear, we know that. As ratings have shown, it looks like the loyal audience was built by the presenting team rather than the brand itself. While of course that’s oversimplifying things a touch, there’s still something to be said about the undeniable appeal of Jezza, James and Richard together talking about cars and causing chaos.
Now, we’re still going to get the latter in spades as the fourth series totally abandons the tent and takes the show on the road. The on-location specials and packages are often the funniest and most exciting moments, but getting the gang together to sit and actually talk about the cars without the razzmatazz not only helps break things up; it also gives them a clean way to dissect the more serious points without any distractions.
Television is over saturated with travel shows, and even travel shows parading themselves as other things. By taking The Grand Tour on the road the whole time, there’s a risk it could just blend in and become something altogether duller.
There’s also the slight problem of James and Richard’s spin-off shows. OK, so the topics will be different and emphasis on other areas. But Richard Hammond’s Big will still see him travelling for various on-location shoots. Likewise, James’ solo series Our Man In Japan will take on a similar format.
Already, The Grand Tour is at risk of becoming overexposed with too many similar formats without enough to stand out.
Add into the mix the notion that doing a series of specials stops them from feeling, well, special, and we’re treading the line of whether you can have too much of a good thing.
Is this a line the team can tread? That remains to be seen.
Now, in the interest of fairness we should say we’re sure if anyone can make this work, it’s these three. They’ve been in the game enough to know what works, what they’re comfortable with and how best to present their own product. And we’ll still be tuning in as they head towards a new horizon.
And we know it’s important to evolve and stay ahead of the curve – in television, it’s vital.
The Grand our is ditching the studio audience for road trips (Picture: Amazon)
But ditching the studio segments and going to all-out specials almost seems like a change for a change’s sake. Viewers will miss it, and it takes away a chance for the audience to get closer to the action.
Will The Grand Tour survive its move from the studio to the field? Probably. Will it thrive? Watch this space.
The Grand Tour season 4 is expected to steer onto Amazon Prime in 2020.
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The Grand Tour presenter says the decision to cancel the long-running ITV show amounts to unfairly taking away the ‘plaything’ of Brexiteers, asking: ‘So what sort of show should be beamed into the plasma-filled homes of the fat and the unintelligent?
‘Repeats of the Richard Dimbleby lectures?’
Clarkson claims to have never seen The Jeremy Kyle Show, though – rather confusingly – says he has been in the Salford-based studio while the programme was being filmed and was there long enough to have a good look at the live audience.
‘It’s obvious from their leggings that what they want from a TV show is two overweight people slagging each other off until one is escorted from the studio by a security man the size of a Buick,’ he claims of those watching the show.
‘This causes them to moo and low like farmyard animals, both in the studio and in council houses all the way from Wolverhampton to Carlisle.’
The Jeremy Kyle Show has been axed for good (Picture: ITV)
Writing in The Sunday Times, Clarkson went on to explain these ‘farmyard animals’ as Brexiteers, and suggested that’s why commentators are ‘gleeful’ at the axing of The Jeremy Kyle Show.
According to the columnist, the ‘soft-left intelligentsia’ have plenty of things to keep them entertained, such as ‘craft beers’, ‘vapes’ and ‘whole-food restaurants’ but those who watch Jeremy Kyle have had their pubs, their cigarettes and their bitter taken away.
The BBC are guilty of this too, says Clarkson, with ‘all sort of things on BBC4 to stimulate their neurological route map’ as well as two radio stations for remainers and none at all for those who voted leave.
While Clarkson clarifies he voted leave himself, he insists he doesn’t hate anyone who voted for Brexit: ‘I don’t want to punish them. Yes, many wanted out because they want less immigration, but that doesn’t make them Hitler.’
The 59-year-old however revealed that he believed the decision to cancel The Jeremy Kyle Show is the right one after former guest, Steve Dymond, died by suicide, though he believes it should be replaced with something similar, or – in his words – ‘something with its eyebrows in its hairline’.
David Dickinson’s Real Deal is currently airing in the show’s slot, and ITV bosses are said to be working around the clock to find a permanent replacement that will bring in the average one million viewers Jeremy Kyle pulled daily.
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Sadly, Jeremy revealed that following Lawrence of Arabia’s journey from Saudi Arabia to Cairo would be risky.
‘This would be an epic journey, except it would mean crossing the Sinai peninsula and, thanks to ISIS, the chances of us all arriving on the other side with heads were slim,’ he wrote in his Sunday Times column.
Travelling between Asia and Australia would also be too dangerous, Jeremy added: ‘Google searches revealed nearly all of them have an Isis presence.
‘There was even a bomb in Bali recently. And not a Jägerbomb.’
Instead, the gang believe they’ll be forced to film in Slough.
The Grand Tour are used to going on the road abroad (Picture: Amazon)
Jeremy and the gang have covered many countries for Top Gear and The Grand Tour in the past 18 years, including Namibia, Chile and the North Pole.
Last month, the trio traveled to Mongolia for a special episode of the show, with Jeremy revealing that he didn’t exactly have a good time.
Posting on Twitter, Jezza wrote: ‘I really hope you enjoy the Grand Tour Mongolia Special as much as I hated making it.’
The episode saw the threesome assemble a vehicle from makeshift parts which will help them escape to civilisation, travelling over huge vistas and massive sand dunes.
The Grand Tour will likely return to Amazon Prime in 2020.
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The Grand Tour test driver Abbie Eaton has revealed who is the fastest driver out of presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
Abbie revealed Clarkson is the host with the most behind the wheel, thanks to his ‘decisive’ personality which helps him ‘attack’ the track.
Well it wasn’t going to be Captain Slow himself, James May, was it?
Abbie explained: ‘For me the best driver out of the three boys has gotta be Clarkson.
‘He’s quite decisive on the track, he’s not scared of going sideways and he just attacks.’
She also shared her memory of the first time she met Jeremy, who wasted no time in striking up some banter about Abbie’s Yorkshire accent.
The driver revealed: ‘The first time I met Jeremy was at the filming in one of the tents. I walked into his RV and it was (executive producer) Andy Wilman who introduced me, and the very first thing that he said to me was, “Can you do me a favour and say toast?” and immediately I knew why he was getting me to say toast.
‘Obviously I’m from Yorkshire and when I say toast it doesn’t sound like “toast” like you southerners would call it. So that was my first introduction to Clarkson.’
Abbie Eaton rated Jeremy Clarkson has the best driver out of the three presenters (Picture: Amazon)
The Grand Tour team have been busy trying to find locations for season four, which will scrap the tent scenes altogether and focus on ‘specials’ around the world.
Fans are going to have quite a wait for new episodes (not only because they can’t pin down a location yet) as the hosts are going to be off doing their own thing for a bit.
The presenter will travel the world exploring the biggest feats of engineering.
The Grand Tour will return to Amazon Prime.
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Can Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff save Top Gear? (Picture: PA/Rex)
Top Gear’s days seemed numbered with the departure of Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc in relatively quick succession after Jeremy Clarkson’s hissy fit over a steak caused the motoring series to skid off the track.
But Top Gear is back with a new line-up. Paddy McGuiness and Freddie Flintoff will sit behind the wheel alongside regular Chris Harris next month and it appears they may have already begun to turn the show around.
Top Gear has long been the BBC’s most lucrative item, once boasting more than 350 million viewers worldwide during its Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond heyday, while its last series bowed out with under 2 million British fans tuning in to wave off Friends star LeBlanc last year.
Flintoff and McGuinness joins Chris Harris behind the wheel in Top Gear revamp (Picture; Rex/BBC)
According to Guardian, Flintoff and McGuinness’ nerves served them well as they seamlessly brushed over mishaps and joked to the studio audience: ‘No wonder they keep changing presenters.’
According to the publication, onlookers lapped up Flintoff and McGuinness’ debut so much so that the Bolton-born Take Me Out comedian jumped up on a car, filmed the cheers and cheered: ‘Thanks for making us feel so welcome.’
The Grand Tour’s Clarkson recently poked fun at his successors, admitting on The Jonathan Ross Show that while his merry men wish Top Gear all the best, he struggles to share the same humility.
And with the Amazon Prime series returning next year without its studio audience, all traces off the trio’s time on the BBC will come to an end. Though, they needn’t worry. As it stands The Grand Tour’s ratings eclipse Top Gear’s by millions – which Clarkson is also still feeling suitably smug about.
Though, he later stressed that he didn’t understand who he was being asked about…
Top Gear is expected to return to BBC One this summer.
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Jeremy Clarkson announces surprising new Amazon Prime farming series (Picture: Getty)
Jeremy Clarkson is a changed man. The Grand Tour presenter has announced he’s taking a break from trashing cars and wreaking havoc with Richard Hammond and James May to enlighten fans on the highs and lows of farming in a new series for Amazon Prime.
The 59-year-old has taken a drastic U-turn for I Bought A Farm after notoriously disregarding concerns for the environment to front an agricultural programme urging viewers to acknowledge dwindling food supplies with an inside look at his life as a proud farmer.
The former Top Gear presenter, who lives on an enormous 1,000 acre Chipping Norton farm, will kick off filming the show, which he insisted will be much more graphic than Countryfile, in September.
‘This is not Kate Humble – much as I like Kate Humble – with 20 acres, bottle-feeding a lamb. Or a TV presenter who grows veg in his back garden This is actual farming: Life, death and form filling,’ he told the Sunday Times.
‘We’re not making Countryfile. We’ll be showing it warts and all. For example, I have no view on badger culling in terms of whether it’s necessary, but if it’s happening we will not shy away from putting it in the programme.’
The Grand Tour is expected to return on Amazon Prime in 2020.
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Jeremy Clarkson is putting his farm life on screen (Picture: Getty/Instagram)
Jeremy Clarkson is swapping explosive car chases for growing vegetables in his new TV adventures, as he hopes to show the real highs and lows of life on a farm.
The 59-year-old presenter, who is also a proud farmer, will show the less glamorous side of his life in new Amazon series I Bought A Farm – which hopes to spotlight dwindling food supplies and the challenges facing farmers across the UK.
Since news of the show’s announcement, Clarkson has posted numerous clips and photos of life living on his 1,000 acre Chipping Norton farm.
First up there’s every farmer’s pride and joy – the tractor.
Describing his new farming show, Clarkson promised this wouldn’t be similar to the blissful depiction of rural life on Countryfile, but something more grounded in reality.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Clarkson said: ‘This is not Kate Humble – much as I like Kate Humble – with 20 acres, bottle-feeding a lamb. Or a TV presenter who grows veg in his back garden. This is actual farming: life, death and form filling.
‘We’re not making Countryfile. We’ll be showing it warts and all. For example, I have no view on badger culling in terms of whether it’s necessary, but if it’s happening we will not shy away from putting it in the programme.’
Clarkson is particularly concerned with food shortages, adding: ‘Scientists calculate we have just 90 years before we run out of food, because of soil depletion. That’s just 90 more harvests.’
The new series is set to kick off filming in September, with a release date yet to be announced.
Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May all have their own spin-off shows incoming (Picture: Jeff Spicer/WireImage)
Hammond, meanwhile, recently announced a new series on Discovery titled Richard Hammond’s Big – and yes, he’s fully aware of the irony.
The Grand Tour isn’t going anywhere though, with the show returning for a fourth season comprised entirely of road trip specials – having ditched the studio format after season three.
The Grand Tour season four is expected to release in 2020 on Amazon Prime, with a release date yet to be announced for I Bought A Farm.
The Grand Tour have called themselves out for literally having the most repetitive catchphrase ever.
While we literally sit here patiently waiting for season four, the team behind the show have been clubbing together some clips to keep us occupied.
And the latest instalment, might literally be the best one yet.
(OK we’ll stop now – that was literally the last one.)
Turns out that the guys are a bit of a fan of the exaggeration, and so with one quick supercut they’ve exposed their biggest habit in saying ‘literally’ for everything they’re on about.
Somehow we don’t think they’re going to stop anytime soon either (never change, gang).
Jeremy has developed quite the habit of saying literally (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)
Work for The Grand Tour 4 is underway, but has hit a couple of stumbling blocks that could literally end in the trio being killed if they’re not careful enough.
Either way, we’ve got a bit of a wait before we get any of the others on our screens – but don’t worry, we’ve lapped up some good alternatives to keep you busy in the meantime.
We literally cannot wait for season four (Picture: Amazon Prime Video)
Richard, as well as his co-stars James May and Jeremy Clarkson, will be going it alone for their own upcoming series.
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Jeremy Clarkson was frustrated by the delays caused by the Hammersmith road collision (Picture: TFL, Rex)
Jeremy Clarkson has received heavy backlash after complaining about the closure of a major road in London caused by a car crash which killed one person.
The Grand Tour presenter was frustrated by the road closures in Hammersmith on Friday, after a nasty collision which involved several cars.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that three men had been arrested after one man, a 70-year-old pensioner, was killed at the scene. The incident caused road closures around the Hammersmith area lasting much of the day.
Expressing his annoyance at the traffic situation, Jeremy tweeted hours after the crash: ‘Dear The Police, I know it was a nasty crash in Hammersmith last night but how can it take this long to re-open the road?’
The borough of Kensington & Chelsea responded to Jeremy’s complaint, apologised for the inconvenience caused and explained the gravity of the incident due to the man’s death.
They tweeted: ‘Hi Jeremy, we’re sorry this may have caused delay to your journey. Due to the serious nature of the collision, our collision investigation team have to carry out a full forensic investigation which can take time.
‘This is so we are able to provide accurate evidence at court.’
A police officer who claims to specialise in fatal road traffic collisions, weighed in: ‘Cold comfort for a grieving family Jeremy.
‘Personally I prefer, “we did everything we could to find out what happened and why, so hopefully this never happens again”. The road stays closed until I can say that.’
The Roads Police Unit (Traffic) for Surrey Police also replied: ‘.@JeremyClarkson i believe you have had a number of invitations to join a Roads Policing Team for a shift. Please add our name to the list. When it comes to life changing or fatal collisions there is often a lot more to dealing with them than you think.’
Similarly, West Midlands Police said: ‘We would like to extend an invitation for you to come out on patrol with us for a shift – so you can see, first hand, what we have to deal with.’
One woman claimed to have witnessed part of the collision and hit back at the TV star: ‘I saw the fatal crash seconds after it happened and it was horrific. Bits of car and glass all down the A4. All evidence.’
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Jeremy replied: ‘I’m sure it was terrible. But once the injured are sorted, the number one priority is opening the road. Blame is irrelevant.’
Metro.co.uk have contacted Jeremy’s reps for comment.
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