Amazon’s The Grand Tour: James May is having a ‘difficult time’ after show’s rumoured axe in the midst of Jeremy Clarkson scandal

The Grand Tour's James May has taken to Twitter to share that he is having a "difficult time". The tweet comes following reports from Variety that Amazon has decided to cancel The Grand Tour after comments co-host Jeremy Clarkson made about Meghan Markle.

May wrote: "Thank you for all your birthday wishes/c**p jokes/sod offs. It is very comforting at this difficult time," and was met with a barrage of supportive comments. The presenter's social media feed was also jam-packed with commemorative pictures on his 60th birthday.

Clarkson has worked with May and Richard Hammond since 2002, initially appearing on Top Gear together. Then, following Clarkson's firing from that show in 2015, the three presenters began working on another motoring programme, The Grand Tour, on Amazon Prime.

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Amazon's rumoured decision to cancel The Grand Tour comes after a column that Clarkson wrote in The Sun. In the article, the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host said he "hated" Meghan Markle on a "cellular level" and "dreamt" of her being "paraded" through towns in the UK and having "excrement" thrown at her. The article was subsequently taken down and Clarkson has received widespread criticism, including from his own daughter - read more about that here.

The fate of The Grand Tour remains up in the air (Getty Images)

On Monday, January 16, Clarkson issued a statement on social media saying that he'd apologised personally to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. "There were calls for me to be sacked and charged with a hate crime," he explained, "More than 60 MPs demanded action to be taken. ITV, who make Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Amazon, who make the Farm Show and the Grand Tour, were incandescent."

Amazon have yet to confirm the fate of The Grand Tour or Clarkson's Farm. For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.

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