Jeremy Clarkson’s reunion with his former Top Gear co-stars Richard Hammond and James May has already been revealed, months after they ended The Grand Tour.
The trio first hosted Top Gear together in 2003, with their time on the motoring show coming to an end in 2015 when Clarkson was sacked for an ‘unprovoked physical and verbal attack’ on a producer.
He later apologised and agreed to pay damages, while May and Hammond followed Clarkson and quit the show soon after, saying they came as a ‘package’.
And they certainly did, having moved over to Amazon Prime series The Grand Tour in 2016, though fans were left devastated when it came to an end last year with two emotional specials.
At the time, May said he thinks the time is right for a brand new motoring show because he, Clarkson and Hammond are ‘too old’, which was echoed by Clarkson branding himself ‘unfit, fat and old’.
However, they’re now reuniting for another Amazon Prime project.
The Not Very Grand Tour has been described as ‘a motoring comedy documentary series’, according to the BBFC.
It will feature the team ‘celebrating the combustion engine’ and also looking back at footage from their past adventures and test drives.
The first episode is titled The Glory and The Power, and will be landing on Amazon Prime Video on April 18.
Further details of the reunion show, including how many episodes it may include, have yet to be announced.
And it’s bound to follow in the footsteps of Top Gear and The Grand Tour, as The Not Very Grand Tour director Phil Churchward worked on both.
All three of Hammond, May and Clarkson’s names are included in the cast.
May had previously offered some hope about the three reuniting on another project after the end of The Grand Tour, saying: ‘I wouldn’t rule it out, but you do have to bear in mind that we’re all getting on a bit.’
In the final Grand Tour episode, the hosts emotionally recalled their two decades of TV together.
They returned to Kubu Island in Botswana which featured in their Top Gear special back in 2007, with Clarkson saying: ‘We were now on our final drive together heading to our favourite place in the world.’
He adds: ‘We’ve travelled thousands and thousands and thousands of miles and had thousands and thousands and thousands of adventures.
‘And we’re going to end up right where we started.’
Hammond then added: ‘Never thought that what we do together would go on as it has.
‘I was excited when I got the job way back, very excited.
‘But I never dreamed it would grow into a career and life-defining adventure. And occasionally, nearly career and life-ending adventure.
‘I can’t pretend it isn’t going to be a wrench ending this, because it is.’
‘It just remains for me to say thank you very much for watching. Thank you It means a lot,’ Clarkson added as they reached their final stop, before it ended on the trio recreating a scene from 17 years earlier.
In 2023, the BBC officially made the decision to ‘rest’ Top Gear for the ‘foreseeable future’, after Freddie Flintoff’s horror crash in December 2022.
Metro has approached Amazon Prime Video for comment.
The Grand Tour is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video with The Not Very Good Tour landing on April 18.
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