According to reports, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are leaving The Grand Tour.
The trio initially appeared on our screens in 2003 on Top Gear, and they all left in 2015.
They reconnected only months later for The Grand Tour, which debuted on Amazon Prime in 2016.
However, it has now been reported that they have taped their final episode together after seven years on Amazon Prime.
According to our sources, Clarkson, Hammond, and May have just returned from filming in Zimbabwe for their farewell special, which will air next year.
The next The Grand Tour special, set in Mauritania, will premiere in February 2024, and while alternatives for a new The Grand Tour are being considered, it has yet to be approved.
A source revealed: ‘It’s a surprising decision and everyone realises it very much marks the end of an era for the three presenters.
‘The Grand Tour is one of Prime Video’s most watched shows and Jeremy, James and Richard have a devoted following.’
The insider continued to The Sun: ‘But the guys have made no bones about the fact they’re all advancing in years and they have lots of other projects to pursue.
‘They just felt like the time was right and wanted to go out on a high when the show remained popular.’
This occurs only days after the BBC cancelled Top Gear following Freddie Flintoff’s horrific tragedy in December 2022.
The BBC announced earlier this month in a statement that the TV show had been cancelled “for the foreseeable future” due to “exceptional circumstances.”
The broadcaster added: ‘We know resting the show will be disappointing news for fans, but it is the right thing to do.’
Following the news, Clarkson, 63, recalled his own time on the show, and claimed co-star Hammond, 53, was ‘being airlifted to hospital after yet another accident’ on ‘most days’.
‘He was always taken away in an air ambulance. And we’d kick our heels till he was better. And then the show would go on,’ the presenter wrote in his column in The Sun.
Hammond was in a medically induced coma for three weeks following a 280mph incident in 2006, and he sustained a frontal lobe brain damage.
In a recent interview, May intimated that the presenters will have to ‘stop one day’ on The Grand Tour.
The 60-year-old said the trio are ‘a bit too old for all this now’, adding: ‘We’ll have to stop one day and by my reckoning that terrible day is almost upon us.’
The Grand Tour airs on Amazon Prime Video.
Source My Celebrity Life.
