Jeremy Clarkson reveals the real reason The Grand Tour has ended
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bid an emotional goodbye to viewers during the final episode of The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime. The trio embarked on their final adventure across Zimbabwe after 22 years of larking around together, first on BBC's Top Gear and then The Grand Tour.
Fans have been left gutted that the three will no longer be seen together on our screens and wondering why the show couldn't have gone on. Jeremy Clarkson previously said he was "too old and fat" to get in and out of cars, while there were also reports Amazon decided to part ways with Clarkson.
But during the final episode, Clarkson lamented the rise of electric cars, insisting they wouldn't be any fun to review. He suggested this was a key reason the show couldn't go on, the Express reports.
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The outspoken host said he won't review electric cars because they are "s**t". The trio got misty eyed as they looked back on over two decades of working together and rising from a simple car review show to global stars travelling the world.
Clarkson has said he decided to end The Grand Tour, rather than Amazon pulling the plug, stating they had simply "run out of things to do". Speaking at a screening of the final Grand Tour, Clarkson, 64, admitted the trio were more aware now that their work on TV together was over. He said: “It gets you tonight, it is the end. It didn’t at the end of filming.
"We said three years ago we would do one more then end it. We had driven cars higher and faster than anyone else so we did wonder what else we could do with a car. We had run out of places to go, we had run out of things to do. And I had got fat.”
May, 61, said: “ I think because we decided when it would end it was infused with melancholy. It was sort of sad but nice at the same time.” Hammond, 54, said: “You could argue we’ve saved the best until last.
“I found myself deliberately taking memories as we were going through it. I was thinking ‘remember it mate’, I was consciously remembering moments for me.”
Referring to his previous serious car accidents on Top Gear, Hammond quipped: “I won’t miss the air ambulances and having my trousers cut off.”