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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Isobel Lewis

Richard Hammond didn’t want to stop presenting The Grand Tour: ‘I didn’t have a choice’

Richard Hammond has admitted that he would have stayed on The Grand Tour, had his co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and James May not wanted to quit the show.

Having worked together since starting Top Gear in 2002, the presenting trio left Prime Video’s motoring series in 2024, with Clarkson, 66, saying at the time that the partnership was ending because he was “too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in driving those I don’t”.

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