Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he and James May had a completely different reaction to Richard Hammond when filming finished for The Grand Tour, with it being the last project they are set to work on together.
Having fronted Top Gear on the BBC since the early 2000s, the trio moved as a group to Amazon Prime Video for The Grand Tour following Clarkson's departure from the organisation.
The curtain is now about to be drawn on the trio's time on-screen together through The Grand Tour: One For The Road, which will take Hammond, May, and Clarkson to Zimbabwe.
There, they will explore challenging African landscapes in cars the three men have always wanted, those being a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag.
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The final trailer for the last special has been released today (2 September), leaving fans holding back tears.
Have a watch below:
For those wondering if it is truly the end or a ploy, it sadly looks like there will be no more after dissolving their joint production company.
Speaking about the end of their working relationship, Jezza said: "I’m not saying this in a derogatory way by any means but James has the emotions of a stone.
“He just doesn’t do emotions, so there were no tears from him. Hammond, yes.
“I was surprisingly unemotional in a weird way because I can see James and Hammond any time I want to, they’re only a phone call away, and I’m sure we will.
“And I’ve done enough of the travel, I was worn out by it.”
For Clarkson, he said it 'would have been emotional' if it weren't for the same crew being the guys behind the camera when filming Clarkson's Farm.
"There I was with all these guys that I’ve known and worked with for 24 years and I said, ‘I’ll see you all on Monday morning’ because they all work on Clarkson’s Farm," Jeremy said.
“I’m 100 percent convinced I would have been a lot more emotional without the farm show."
Hammond said there were 'a lot of tears' at the end and he would miss 'them terribly'.
He added: “We’ve seen each other in jungles covered in leeches, exhausted and grumpy in tents and boiling heat, elated in the most beautiful cities in the world.”
May agreed they 'will miss each other' including him 'going on about things' and them 'pulling me up about it'.
He also said: “In the end we got to the point where we said, ‘No, we must stop whilst we’re still vaguely ahead. We mustn’t keep going until we embarrass ourselves’.
“It’s odd. I have mixed emotions about it. I will miss the adventure and the experiences and the craic and the ‘bantz’ and all that stuff.
“I won’t really miss the stress of it because I’m old now and a bit frail compared with back then. I don’t know what to do next, but it’s a nice thing to look back on and think, ‘we did that’."
The Grand Tour: One For The Road launches on Prime Video on Friday, 13 September.
Topics: Amazon Prime, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, TV and Film, The Grand Tour
Tom Earnshaw