James May has said he won't do The Grand Tour for 'much longer' as he's 'falling apart'.
May, 57, has spent almost two decades presenting alongside his mates Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, but now - as he gets older - he's starting to think about retirement.
In a recent article he wrote for The Sun, he said: "How do I feel about ageing? Bad. I'm in the second half of my fifties now and in all honesty, I'm slightly falling apart.
"I'm developing nervous disorders and aches and I don't think I'll do this much longer because I don't want to fall apart in public.
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"It would just be a bit undignified and I don't think people want to see it."
Talking about his future with co-hosts Clarkson, 59, and 50-year-old Hammond, he added: "There's almost certainly more of it behind us than in front of us. How long do you want to see old blokes?
"Jeremy's possibly even more decrepit than me.
"When it takes us 15 minutes to get out of a Ferrari, do you really want to see that? It's sad.
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"You're supposed to leave the audience wanting more.
"We never thought we'd be doing it this long - and we never really thought about how it would end."
The trio first started presenting together all the way back in 2003 on BBC's Top Gear, before leaving together to host Amazon Prime's The Grand Tour in 2016.
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The fourth series of the show - The Grand Tour: Seamen - landed earlier this month and is the first series not to have any studio elements.
Last December, the presenters announced that going forward they would only be filming big-budget specials - rather than the usual format, which included segments filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Speaking to The Sun at the time, Clarkson said: "It's a really sad day. I will miss the banter with each other and with the audience.
"But we've been doing that show for effectively 17 years - sitting around in studios, watching cars race around the track.
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"There are only so many times you can watch a BMW go 'round the track - what more can you say? It's got four wheels and a seat.
"We all agreed that we've been doing it a long time, and everything eventually runs its course.
"Besides, I'm 58 and I'm too fat to be climbing on to the stage."
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