Jeremy Clarkson recently made a jibe at his former Grand Tour co-star James May shortly after the latter quashed hopes of making any new shows with him.
The duo, along with Richard Hammond, presented Top Gear on the BBC together from 2003 to 2015 before reuniting on Amazon Prime for The Grand Tour, which wrapped up earlier this year.
Fans continue to hope the three will reunite for a new series or a different show, but May recently suggested the group’s days of working together are over. Meanwhile Clarkson, 64, took aim at May, 61 in a jokey post on X, formerly Twitter.
It came as Clarkson penned to his 8million followers : “Apropos of not much, I just saw a hobby hawk.”
Responding, one fan replied: “Thought it was just called a Hobby,” to which Clarkson quipped back: “I fear that if I’d said I’d seen a hobby, people might have thought I’d been in James May’s shed.”
May recently confessed he can’t see the trio working together again, despite high demand from viewers who enjoyed the rapport of the three car experts.
Speaking to Unilad recently, May explained: “I think people would only really like us doing cars, despite what some people say – ‘Oh, I think you should all go off and do cooking or you should all go and do a podcast about nothing.’
“But I don’t think so, I think we should let it lie, what we did.” In a different interview, May reiterated his point.
Speaking last month to Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4’s Today podcast, he was asked: “What’s going on with TV and The Grand Tour?
“Is there gonna be a new series, are you gonna come back, are we ever gonna see you driving around in cars again?”
May responded: “Well, I want to have a conversation with the sort of remote PR person in the back of my brain who tells me what to say on things like this.
“No. There’s still a big special to come which is coming later this year and I’m not allowed to tell you what date it’s coming out I think, so I won’t say it’s September.
“I can say anything I want now, frankly. But we’re not going to make another series together about cars, no.”
However, he went on to add: “Hang on, you should never say no, should you? Because that’s a slightly trap question because that’s one of those questions you always ask politician when you say, ‘Well, you can’t say no forever’. I think it is pretty unlikely.”
Clarkson also remains busy with his solo Amazon Prime series, Clarkson’s Farm. Series three only wrapped up recently, but filming for series four was already underway last month.
Expanding on his Cotswolds farm success, the TV personality also recently revealed plans to open his own pub.
The former Top Gear host has purchased a boozer in the Cotswolds which he hopes to open to sell “British food”.
It was reported the 64-year-old paid “less than a million” for a country pub called The Windmill in Burford, Oxfordshire.
