James May has ruled out appearing on his The Grand Tour co-star’s Jeremy Clarkson’s smash Amazon Prime Video hit Clarkson’s Farm.
Following Jeremy ditch his lavish London life to herd sheep in the Cotswolds, Clarkson’s Farm became one of the most surprising hits of 2021 when the presenter and Amazon made the series on a bit of a whim when the pandemic struck and he, by his own admission, was contracted to make a new show.
Against his own expectations, it became a monster hit for the streaming service and has already been renewed for season two.
James, however, won’t be appearing.
He told Ladbible: ‘A few people have said, “oh why don’t you get James and Richard to come and do a few bits on the show”.
‘I don’t think he should do that, I don’t think he wants to anyway but it’s not that kind of show.
‘I think it’s his farm and it’s his thing and that’s good.
‘If I was doing a film about my workshop, I wouldn’t want those two in it going ‘oh I’ve literally broken it’.
‘I’d smack them over the head with a shovel and throw them out.’
Although, he has ‘watched a bit of it’.
James and Jeremy are back together and with Richard Hammond for the latest edition of The Grand Tour, a second lockdown special called Carnage a Trois – set in France, obviously.