Top Gear trio Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May formed a legendary TV partnership that lasted years, but it seems they won’t be reuniting on screen anytime soon
It seems Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May won’t be on TV together for the forseeable.
The beloved trio shot to fame on Top Gear in the noughties and had fans in stitches with their wild road trips for years. They later reunited for more motor adventures on their Prime Video hit The Grand Tour, which came to an end last year.
However, it would appear the trio won’t be back on screen together anytime soon as it’s reported they’ve wound down their joint TV company, W. Chump & Sons. The trio and their producer Andy Wilman were behind the company, which had been active since 2015.
Documents filed at Companies House suggest the “voluntary winding up” of their TV firm. According to The Sun, the company had over £24million on its books when it closed, which would mean each of the gang could pocket around £6million.
It could be a sign that the trio have no further plans to work with one another at this time, as the company was behind their previous TV shows. They set up W. Chump & Sons in 2015, the same year that Clarkson left the BBC’s Top Gear in 2015, followed by Hammond and May.
But even though the trio aren’t on screen together at the moment, they’re all busy with their own individual TV projects. Clarkson’s seen huge success with his Prime Video series Clarkson’s Farm, which will return for a fifth series.
Richard Hammond’s DIY show Workshop, which airs on Discovery+ and Quest TV, has reportedly been renewed for a fifth series. And James May has been fronting travel shows with Channel 5 and Prime Video.
Jezza addressed the ending of The Grand Tour last year. He said at a screening for the final episode: “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.”
He admitted it wasn’t so hard saying goodbye to a lot of his crew as they work on Clarkson’s Farm with him. Clarkson added: “Where I would have been emotional was saying goodbye to the crew because most of them started with us.
“There’s a photograph taken on Kubu Island of Russ Edwards and Casper Leaver (Camera Operator) and Andy Wilman, who were there on the original crew, and they’re still with us.
“You can’t say that about any other show. We are a dysfunctional family, and I’d miss that, except for one tiny detail.
“There I was with all these guys that I’ve known and worked with for twenty-four years and I said, “I’ll see you all on Monday morning” because they all work on Clarkson’s Farm. I’m 100% convinced I would have been a lot more emotional without the farm show.”
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