Telly veteran Jeremy Clarkson has spilled the beans on ditching car shows after The Grand Tour’s finale.
The host claims he’s lost his passion for motors after years specialising in them after bossing it as TVs motoring king since kickstarting things on Top Gear in ’88, but it appears Clarkson’s now parked up the car chat.
Dishing the dirt to fans at a snug Q&A sesh over at his Diddly Squat Farm watering hole, The Farmer’s Dog made famous by his hit farming series on Amazon Prime Jezza confessed cars just don’t rev his engine anymore.
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He bluntly put it: “No, honestly no. They’re all ****, mate. Genuinely, I look at them all, well not all, but I guess we’re all in the same boat about this. 80 percent, 90 percent of them, I couldn’t even identify them.”
Adding more fuel to his disinterest, Clarkson exclaimed: “I don’t know what they are and I don’t care. They [the companies] could say ‘we’ve got a new hybrid drive system’, and I just couldn’t give a ****! “, reports the Mirror.
Having first revved into the scene with motor reviews in the late ’70s, Clarkson zoomed into the limelight taking the wheel of BBC’s Top Gear in 1988. He initially left in the late ’90s but came back to throw Top Gear into high gear in 2002 alongside his chums Richard Hammond, Jason Dawe, and later James May, as per reports from the Express.
Jeremy Clarkson got all nostalgic about his love for classic motors, especially when cruising around his local Chipping Norton stomping ground. Chatting at a do, he shared: “Driving here tonight in that [Lancia Beta Monte Carlo], there’s a fantastic road. Does anyone know who I mean by Harry Metcalfe? Harry uses this road very close to here for all of his tests, and it’s my route from home to here.”
He waxed lyrical about the sheer joy of driving old-school cars, saying, “It’s amazing when you drive an old car like that how much better they are than modern cars because they’re so light. It’s a really, really epic thing to drive.”
The telly star also spilled the beans on what’s next for The Grand Tour, urging Amazon to keep the dream alive with new blood. Giving them a piece of advice, he said: “Well, as I said to them the other day at Amazon, they keep talking about famous people that they want and like cars, but that doesn’t work. They’ve got to find young kids who really know their cars and then get them to host the show.”
Reflecting on his early days on the box with Richard Hammond and James May, Clarkson added a cheeky twist, “I’m hoping that Amazon will, and I do think they’ll carry on with The Grand Tour, but with some young kids, not famous people. James, Richard, and I, we weren’t well known when we started. Now look at us – we’re still not very well known.”
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