The Grand Tour
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He has noticeable shaking in the head and hands that have been getting worse the past recent years and are not what is expected in someone his age. Its been very noticeable in the past 2 years worth of work in his cooking show, travel and the recent seasons of Grand Tour.What health issues Googleing suggests its him getting old and nothing more
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I've never noticed, though I only watch his YouTube stuff.
So Clarkson directly caused the trio to be fired from the BBC and now also fired from Amazon.
Sure they do other work but TG and GT must have been their golden egg. I'd guess they won't want to work with Clarkson again after all the dust has settled anyway, and May has commented recently that he wants to retire soon.
Sure they do other work but TG and GT must have been their golden egg. I'd guess they won't want to work with Clarkson again after all the dust has settled anyway, and May has commented recently that he wants to retire soon.
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Or their time was just up at Amazon anyway. It will have been 8 years since joining (assuming the last show staring any of them is in 2024) That is a decent chunk of time, given how fast the TV landscape has been changing recently. They have all made fortunes from Amazon.
Not likely since Amazon has ended all work contracts with Clarkson. Clarksons farm was hugely popular, even if the GT had come to a natural end I could have seen more coming from Clarksons Farm
[Edit] May has come out publically and said that this "is a difficult time" too, so indicates that its something he wasn't expecting.
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Soldato
As people have said previously in this thread Clarkson’s Farm has a limited shelf life. I would imagine Amazon are well aware of this and his contract was always at risk of not being renewed because of this and Grand Tour coming to a natural end.
Might have been the straw that broke camels back but I don’t believe it was main factor.
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Has he been fired from Amazon?
Amazon are going to cut ties with him after his contracted work ends, i imagine he still needs to shoot most of the GT episodes.
They made comically massive amounts of money from working with Clarkson on Grand Tour, it would be no shock to see another car show staring the trio.
To be honest i think May is the dispensable one out of the three and he could be replaced.
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I think maybe trio time is comming to a end.
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I agree James doesn’t quite have the chemistry Clarkson and Hammond have together and personality wise he bit dull compared to them. Personally I think they’ve come to the end now, Clarkson has to be 60+ time to put on the pipe and slippers.
and miss out on getting a truck full of money per episode, i cant see it myself. They are the luckiest old men in the UK
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I wish them all the best in the future but i think now they luck is comming to a end.
Soldato
The writing was on the wall when they stopped doing regular TGT shows and only specials. Ive enjoyed most of the specials they did with TG, the TGT ones havent been anything special, watchable for sure, but not must watch TV anymore
They have strayed into feeling forced and artificial for a while now. It just doesn't have the same magic anymore, but tbh that was beginning to be the case before they left the BBC. The move just exacerbated the decay with the split of production team etc.
Did he? It was an episode (maybe 2?)...not sure I class that as joining...he properly joined in 2003.
I don't believe Amazon have officially announced anything yet. Either someone has started a rumour, or something has been leaked by Amazons exec team.
It'll only be a matter of time before they reveal their intentions on the whole thing.
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I can't find a list of episodes he appeared in, but as I understand he was one of the hosts for a whole season - 12 episodes. I believe he appeared in most, if not all, of those episodes.
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Taken from Wikipedia.
So he actually owes Clarkson for his success as I said