James May recently opened up about his co-stars on The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond.
Since teaming together for the debut episode of Top Gear in 2002, the trio has been practically unmissable on our television screens with their comedic squabbling and wild automotive adventures.
However, the three quit Top Gear in 2015 when Jeremy, 63, was embroiled in a fight with show producer Oisin Tymon.
They ‘come as a bundle,’ they say. Richard and James left the programme immediately after Jeremy’s contract was not renewed as a result of the event.
But it wasn’t long before the three was back together filming again, as the first season of The Grand Tour premiered on Amazon Prime in 2016, followed by five more seasons of success.
The fifth season’s newest installment, the stand-alone special Eurocrash, was released earlier this month on Amazon Prime Video.
However, following Jeremy’s disgusting remarks about Meghan Markle in a newspaper piece in January, in which the TV personality stated he fantasised about the Duchess being paraded through the streets nude and publicly embarrassed, Amazon apparently ‘part ways’ with him.
It has since been reported that The Grand Tour will show two more specials.
Variety reports that the streaming service will not collaborate with the TV personality beyond the seasons of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm that have already been commissioned.
Ever the supportive pal, James has now given his view on his friend Jeremy, who he called an ‘a*se’ in a recent interview with The Telegraph.
‘Jeremy is an a*se,’ he began, before admitting: ‘So is Hammond, in a different sort of way, but the argumentative, mucking about, three’s-a-crowd, conforming-to-every-stereotype dynamic makes for great telly.
‘Is The Grand Tour a car show? It’s not the show to go for if you want to buy a new estate for the school run.
‘I see it more as a confluence of sitcom and Greek tragedy.’
The star went on to declare ‘nobody’s been cancelled or burned at the stake’, before he admitted the trio are ‘a bit too old for all this now’.
‘We’ll have to stop one day and by my reckoning that terrible day is almost upon us,’ he said.
In terms of The Grand Tour’s future, James stated that they are still signed up for a couple specials, which they are doing.
Jeremy told The Sun earlier this month what was in store for the next few specials.
He said: ‘For the next one – in fact, the next two – we’re back on slightly scary ground, doing things that we used to do when we were in our thirties and forties.
‘But now we’re in our fifties and sixties, so I’m slightly nervous about the next two.
‘Let’s just say we’re going back to Africa, and this one’s a hard one. It’s hard if you’re young and fit, but I’m really not fit. And I’m very fat. And I’m 63 now.’
