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Jeremy Clarkson has defined why he has ended his partnership with Richard Hammond and James Could.
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 automobile 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 Could.
‘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 excited about driving these I don’t,” he mentioned in a brand new interview with The Sunday Times.
“What this implies in fact is that my 22-year partnership with James Could and Richard Hammond is now over. You may see our last highway journey collectively on Amazon Prime very quickly. It’s emotional.”
Clarkson mentioned the trio had “thought lengthy and onerous about how we should always finish our 22-year partnership, however ultimately we simply went to the tip of the alphabet” and chosen Zimbabwe as a spot to set the particular.
“There was another excuse why we selected Zimbabwe, although,” he continued, revealing: “We might drive throughout it from east to west, as standard, however then we might cross the border and end up the place we started all these years in the past: the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana.”
Clarkson mentioned it “makes the three of us completely satisfied” 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 known as, ‘That’s a wrap,’ for the final time? Sure, it was. Particularly as among the crew had been with us after we had been there earlier than. Individuals consider Prime Gear and The Grand Tour as being James, Richard and me. But it surely 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 exhibits. They’re those who stored 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 via.
Earlier this 12 months, it was reported that Clarkson, Hammond and Could 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.
