Why Jeremy Clarkson has cut ties with Richard Hammond and James May
Jeremy Clarkson has ended his professional partnership with his co-stars Richard Hammond and James May after 22 years.
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Jeremy Clarkson has opened up on why he no longer works with his former co-stars Richard Hammond and James May.
The beloved trio began working together on Top Gear in 2002 before moving to Amazon Prime Videos in 2016 for The Grand Tours series.
However, the hosts have since confirmed the end of their show, with their upcoming special, One for the Road wrapping up their partnership.
Although Jeremy is currently enjoying the success of his series Clarkson's Farm, he revealed why he has decided to cut professional ties with Richard and James.
Reflecting on their work together, he announced: “After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I’m packing it in.
Jeremy explained to The Sunday Times: “Because I’m too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in driving those I don’t.
“What this means of course is that my 22-year partnership with James May and Richard Hammond is now over. You can see our final road trip together on Amazon Prime very soon. It’s emotional.”
The TV star revealed that the trio “thought long and hard about how we should end our 22-year partnership.”
As he added: “But in the end, we just went to the end of the alphabet,” and selected Zimbabwe as a place to set the special.
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“There was another reason why we chose Zimbabwe, though,” Jeremy continued: “We would drive across it from east to west, as usual, but then we could cross the border and finish up where we began all those years ago: the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana.”
Jeremy shared he was glad that their friendship didn’t disintegrate “in a blizzard of outrage and tabloid headlines,” but instead “landed safely and gently.”
The 64-year-old admitted he was “sad” to hear the director say “that’s a wrap for the last very time,” Jeremy reflected: “We’ve camped together. S**t our lungs out together, laughed our a***s off together.
“These are the guys who really made those shows. They’re the ones who kept the cameras and the microphones going even when it was cold or dangerous, so that Andy [Wilman, producer] had his 1,200 hours of material to sift through.”
