Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May sever ties

The trio have worked together for 21 years.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have distanced themselves from each other by dissolving their joint production company.

Their company W. Chump and Sons was founded in July 2015 by Andy Wilman, the producer of Prime Video’s The Grand Tour.

Wilman was also the joint owner of Bedder 6, the company which held a majority stake in their previous show, Top Gear, until 2012.

After filming wrapped on the latest The Grand Tour series, the three stars all signed off on the dissolution.

Earlier this year, all three men hinted that they wouldn’t work together again, meaning that a final special will be their last hurrah.

Hammond previously suggested that all three of them would come to a decision together on when it would be time to step away from their hugely successful and entertaining partnership.

“We decided a long time ago. The one thing we wanted to be in control of is deciding when and where and how we landed,” he said.

According to the Daily Mail, three documents were filed with Companies House on July 11th, declaring solvency, appointing a voluntary liquidator and making a ‘special resolution to wind up.’

The most recently filed accounts by the company indicate an annual turnover of £6 million and assets of £3.8 million.

Top Gear ran for over a decade and was by far the biggest show on the BBC, generating massive profits for BBC Studios in global sales, and it was followed by global success for the three men on The Grand Tour.

In 2015, the BBC chose not to renew Clarkson’s contract after an incident during filming in which he was said to have struck a producer.

It was said that Clarkson was paid £10 million a year under the terms of the new contract with Amazon, with May and Hammond getting £7.2 million each.

Their most recent one off special Sand Job went out on Prime Video in February.

Clarkson has since found success in his own right thanks to Clarkson’s Farm.

Amazon are reportedly in talks to renew the much-loved show for a fourth season.

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