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Jeremy Clarkson has defined why he has ended his partnership with Richard Hammond and James Might.

The trio first began working collectively on BBC’s Prime Gear in 2002 and moved over to Amazon for Prime Video collection The Grand Tour, which premiered in 2021.

Nonetheless, a forthcoming particular of the automotive present, titled One for the Street, will function a swansong for the trio’s onscreen partnership – and Clarkson, who’s at present having fun with the most important success of his profession with Clarkson’s Farm, has mirrored on why he determined to chop skilled ties with each Hammond and Might.

‘After 36 years of speaking about vehicles on tv, I’m packing it in, as a result of I’m too previous and fats to get into the vehicles that I like and never eager about driving these I don’t,” he stated in a brand new interview with The Sunday Times.

“What this implies in fact is that my 22-year partnership with James Might and Richard Hammond is now over. You may see our closing highway journey collectively on Amazon Prime very quickly. It’s emotional.”

Clarkson stated the trio had “thought lengthy and onerous about how we must always finish our 22-year partnership, however ultimately we simply went to the top of the alphabet” and chosen Zimbabwe as a spot to set the particular.

“There was one more reason why we selected Zimbabwe, although,” he continued, revealing: “We might drive throughout it from east to west, as regular, however then we may cross the border and end up the place we started all these years in the past: the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana.”

Jeremy Clarkson said filming last ‘Grand Tour’ episode was ‘emotional’

Jeremy Clarkson stated filming final ‘Grand Tour’ episode was ‘emotional’ (Getty)

Clarkson stated it “makes the three of us pleased” that their working relationship didn’t disintegrate “in a blizzard of shock and tabloid headlines”, however was “landed safely and gently”.

“Was it unhappy when the director referred to as, ‘That’s a wrap,’ for the final time? Sure, it was. Particularly as a number of the crew had been with us once we had been there earlier than. Folks consider Prime Gear and The Grand Tour as being James, Richard and me. However it isn’t. We’ve had the identical crews for years. We’ve all grown up collectively.

“We’ve camped collectively. S*** our lungs out collectively, laughed our arses off collectively. These are the blokes who actually made these reveals. They’re those who saved the cameras and the microphones going even when it was chilly or harmful, in order that Andy [Wilman, producer] had his 1,200 hours of fabric to sift by.

Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May in the final ‘Grand Tour’

Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James Might within the closing ‘Grand Tour’ (Prime Video)

Earlier this 12 months, it was reported that Clarkson, Hammond and Might had dissolved their manufacturing firm, declaring solvency and appointing a liquidator to “wind up” their enterprise.

The ultimate Grand Tour episode will air on Prime Video on 13 September.

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