James May Reckons Chris Evans' Top Gear Vomit Antics Were All An Act
If you’ve seen all the recent reports of Top Gear production issues and images of apparently vomiting presenters, you’d probably label the attempts to relaunch the show post-Clarkson as disastrous. But is it actually looking like too much of a train wreck to be believable?
That seems to be the opinion of recently departed TG presenter James May. When being interviewed on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ earlier this week and asked if all the alleged production issues were part of an “elaborate hoax”, May concurred, saying “that’s my theory, and to be brutally honest that’s what I’d do: I’d make out that it was all going terribly.”
Referring to the infamous shot of Chris Evans appearing to be car sick after riding shotgun with Sabine Schmitz, he said, “was he being sick? I look a lot more contorted when I’m sick.”
Like a lot of people, May is also keen for the revamped Top Gear series to succeed, despite being due to front a rival show on Amazon Prime with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. “I do think it’s important that it does well because the way I see it, and the reason why it’s good that we’ve kept separate, it means the viewers get two car shows, where there used to be one. And we have a credible rival, and we can mock him a bit, and that’s healthy.”
He declined to reveal anything about the Amazon Prime series, but if you’re desperate for a fix of Captain Slow, you can catch him on James May’s Cars Of The People, which continues on BBC Two this Sunday at 9pm.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I was thinking exactly the same thing too. Any kind of publicity is good publicity. It makes the viewers want to see how bad the show is when in fact the TG trio might actually pull it off and do a wonderful job at it, I hope.
Captain slow might be on to something
At least he wants them to succeed
This is what I’ve been saying all along! Two shows is better than one.
Yes exactly. And if the reworked TG turns out to be bad, we could always choose not to watch it.
The title is wrong, James MAY reckon… we are not sure yet!
“it means the viewers get two car shows, where there used to be one”
I love how he doesn’t recognize Fifth Gear as a car show.
It’s fairly obvious that it’s an act. How many times did Clarkson pretend to throw up, quite a few (ProDrive is the first to spring to mind). Most other things said about new TG is either rumour or speculation (And diehards hoping it will fail)
Just showing what a genuine guy he is!