James May Reckons He And Clarkson Will Be "Too Old" To Make The Grand Tour In Five Years
Any Top Gear/Grand Tour fan must have had this thought in the back of their head at some point: how long can the trio realistically continue? Will Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May still be making car films in 10 years or more? Perhaps not, judging by recent comments from May.
Speaking to the Radio Times, the 53-year-old said: “We have to accept that fairly soon we will be too old for it. Richard Hammond is a reasonably fit bloke who looks after himself, me and Jeremy aren’t.”
He added: “Jeremy is particularly decrepit and I find growing within me…a much stronger, nesty sort of instinct. Within the next five years I don’t want to be fart-arsing around.”
Given the demands of filming around the world and the “fart-arsing around” May speaks of, you’d have to say fair enough to that. At 46 Richard Hammond is 10 years younger than the eldest of the trio - Clarkson - and as May alluded, not quite so unfit and “decrepit”.
So, if Clarkson and May did ‘retire’ in five year’s time, would that effectively end The Grand Tour? Could it still continue with Hammond and a pair of replacements for the other two? There is of course the possibility that the elder pair would continue to create studio-based segments, leaving Hammond and perhaps a couple others (Rory Reid and Chris Harris poached from Top Gear, perhaps?) to be sent out to do the more intensive stuff.
Or perhaps the duo will continue for many years more, rendering all that extreme speculation pointless. What do you think?
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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They could just carry on. I mean, Tiff Needell did just that and it wasn’t that bad at all.
Damn it!
Why am I always too late?
Poaching Rory Reid and Chris Harris from Top Gear would be a great choice if The Grand Tour needed two presenters. I’ve been watching Harris’ reviews for years and he’s always been insightful and funny.
Too serious and predictable dialogue
So the plan is:
After 5 years, leave Hammond for another 5-7 years
Replace May with Ethan
Replace Clarkson with Alex
tbh Clarkson is already far too old for TV, at least by his looks
And richard still does dye his hair, or have his teeth done 😂😂
Id rather have 5 years than zero. And i bet there just as intertaining at the age of 80 as they are now + a few uncontrollable farts lol.
These guys could be lying dead in caskets and still have a funnier dialog than top gear lol.
This is one of those topics i like to stray gracefully away from and start talking about something else like, what do you guys think of the new gopro using usb c?? I’ll go cry in a corner now