Why Jeremy Clarkson Is Glad He Left Top Gear When He Did
Given that he, James May and Richard Hammond are now fronting a new motoring show with a much larger budget and fewer constraints, you could argue the aftermath of that punch has worked out nicely for Jeremy Clarkson. However, there is another reason why the ex-Top Gear presenter is glad he left his show behind when he did.
At a talk in London this week, the 56-year-old said: “I think we would have stayed at the BBC and then the show would have got tired and boring, eventually we would have piloted it into a hillside and that would have been the end,” adding: “At the time it was all tragic but now we’ve been forced to reinvent ourselves and we’re online, where you can do anything, like f*** a horse…Now we’re looking at losing Top Gear as a fantastic thing to happen.”
And the new - as yet unnamed - Amazon Prime show is indeed shaping up to be a rather different beast than Top Gear as we’d come to know it. There’s the obvious point of it being online, but also the studio format has been ditched. No more news, no more celebrity segments, just a series of expensive and no doubt very slick car films.
In the speech, Clarkson also rubbished claims that he’d tried to sabotage Chris Evans’ revival of Top Gear, revealing a peculiarity in his contract with the BBC. “It’s been suggested that I am behind it, that I am trying to scupper him. But I discovered the other day that every time it gets recommissioned I get paid.”
Source: The Sun
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.
Comments
I’ll miss their news segment
I glad there’ll be no more stupid celebrity part. I always used to skip that
thet should just start a youtube channel. instant 2 mill subs
Amazon prime isn’t available in my country :(
They need to have the Christmas News section cos that was the funniest bit of the lot as well as the end of year awards
so happy the celebrity segments are gobe
gone*
Im definitely paying for Amazon Prime when the show comes out
The awards
the cool wall
the news
the star in a reasonably priced car
the glorious track
all gone
Surely they know that what really set Top Gear apart was the quirky British humor, the epic international specials, and the hilarious challenges. As long as trio and Amazon both understand this (and I’m sure they do) the new show will be a smash hit. I just hope they don’t all feel that they’re getting too old for the more adventurous undertakings.
Happy that star in a reasonably priced car is gone but not happy about every other studio related element. Even when they were walking around cars in the studio was pretty cool. I suspect there’s going to be more sillyness and more seriousness and less of the ‘in the middle’ kind of stuff, which is a shame.