Apart from that I've got wife and two daughters who could beat the shit out of me.
People were always saying, 'Well, we know what you lot are like about women and cars'." The favourite one we used to get was about sexism. "But then, to be honest, people are always looking for it. "So I just don't think – no, we don't set out to try and adjust that kind of thing, because we're not. "But no, we don't sit down and… Because to say, 'We're going to be really careful not be homophobic in this series' would be to say: 'Well, you must be, then, because you're having to try not to be.' If anybody takes something as homophobic, then yeah, I think we should remove it, because I don't want to cause offence. Hammond responded to the allegations that the show is homophobic, telling Digital Spy: "It's bloody annoying, because we are not remotely homophobic as a show. It seems wherever Clarkson, May and Hammond go, controversy follows, and The Grand Tour has had its fair share of criticism. The Grand Tour season 5 controversy: What now? The trio are the show – so expect your favourite three to return after having truck-loads of cash dumped on their respective lawns. We can't imagine Amazon would want to risk starting from scratch by changing The Grand Tour' s line-up. They watched some slightly awkward blokes on the telly, and probably thought, 'Ho ho, this is a bit awkward' – and then enjoyed watching it mature and flourish and settle down, and all those sort of little in-jokes developed." And the process of watching it develop is part of the experience of the viewers. "If you've got the ingredients right, it will work. The thing that everybody forgets is, with our chemistry, it took us at least seven years, I think, for it to develop to the point where everyone was familiar with it and knew how we worked. "They've got the potential chemistry right. I've known him for a long time, so I quite often send him little snide messages. "I'm quite good mates with Chris Harris, anyway. May thinks the current Top Gear line-up works "quite well", but he added: "Occasionally, it feels a bit forced. I wish them well, but I don't have any need to watch it." "And I've got loads of mates who work on it. "I think we did the best one, so I'm happy with that," Wilman told Deadline. Top Gear executive producer Alex Renton told Deadlinethat the teams "talk informally" to avoid any awkward clashes in terms of locations and challenges.Įxec producer Clare Pizey added: "If we know in advance they are going somewhere, we would avoid it because it's not what viewers want."īut that doesn't mean Wilman and Clarkson have tuned in to watch Top Gear since leaving. It's almost as good as ours."īut despite the jibes, the people involved in the making of the shows are in contact with one another. But I think they're doing a fairly good job now.
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It took them a while to work out how to do it. "And I think, well, it was a bit of a shaky start, if we're honest. "It's quite nice to watch Top Gear when you're not on it, which I haven't been able to for, you know, 13 years or whatever." "I've been watching it quite regularly since we stopped," James May told Digital Spy. Maybe that's why he tuned in to watch a younger crowd on the BBC. Of course, The Grand Tour’s production is entirely dependent on the gang’s ability to travel (the clue’s in the title of the show) and with coronavirus severely hampering (well, completely stopping) international travel, season five is going to be negatively impacted.Ĭlarkson said as much on Twitter in early March: "We have one pretty much ready to go and when this virus business is settled, we will head off to do two more." That would have been a really crappy way to go." I'm at a disadvantage because it's a much shorter journey to my vital organs. "You could literally see it tracking up my leg.
My feet were very red and it went through my legs. I got it from climbing into the water and then I realised my legs were hurting.
"It's one of those on the list of crap conditions I've had.
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It probably also hasn't helped that Richard Hammond contracted a bacterial skin infection during filming of the new series. Nothing to report at the moment, but we'll keep our eyes and ears peeled. #TheGrandTour- The Grand Tour January 8, 2020 Yes, Season 4 is made up of epic specials. No, we don’t know when it’s coming out yet.