Speaking to the Radio Times, May suggested that he and Jeremy Clarkson are too old to be making The Grand Tour for any more than five years
He, Clarkson and Hammond have signed up for three years of the The Grand Tour, but in a recent interview May has indicated that he might step down from the small screen after just five years. Clarkson will be close to 60 by then.
āWe have to accept that fairly soon we will be too old for it,ā May said. āRichard Hammond is a reasonably fit bloke who looks after himself. Me and Jeremy arenāt.ā
Jeremy is particularly decrepit and I find growing within me ā I try to fight it for some reason, but Iām giving into it ā a much stronger, nesty sort of instinct. Within the next five years, I donāt want to be fart-arsing around.ā
āI donāt have to do it for ever. Eventually, I want some other people to do it,ā May said. We had more energy in the old days, because we were younger and less knackered.ā
They may have had a filming schedule similar to a rock groupās world tour but it seems age has caught up with them. May says: āWe donāt live like AC/DC or Led Zeppelin did. We donāt fall out of the back of limousines vomiting or snorting drugs from the navels of nubile 22-year-olds. Often we have a cup of tea and go to bed.ā
Supporting his show James May: The Christmas Reassembler, which airs on December 28 on BBC Four, the presenter admitted that thereās no way Jeremy would ever appear as a guest on his show ā because they are very different people.
āNo. Heās not interested,ā May said. āWeāre so different. I donāt want Jeremy Clarkson anywhere near my shed or my toolbox or my piano. Heās interested in fashionable restaurants and celebrity gossip ā Iām not interested in those.ā
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