17 So all that freedom is not an issue. So that’s a ball ache for me and production, but like I say, worst things are happening. They’re not cheap. Even though The Grand Tour goes on, it’s a wrench to say goodbye to the studio element of it for sure.“The truth of it is, I think, I never got the chance to say goodbye to Top Gear. Amazon has been very quiet when it’s come to The Grand Tour. I’ll never be Lewis Hamilton, but I could be a retard like one of those three [Clarkson, Hammond and May] and make a good living.Yes, but I haven’t got the confidence. I think it’s f*cking amazing. The Grand Tour is a British motoring television series, created by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and Andy Wilman, produced by Amazon exclusively for its online streaming service Amazon Prime Video, and premiered on 18 November 2016. I don’t think we’ve ever had an editorial note. Initially thinking that The Grand Tour opportunity was a put up by one of her friends, Eaton ended up stepping into the role on Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May…

Obviously, less so because they’re not in charge of the credit card to go and subscribe, but I feel it and see it anecdotally.
The TV show probably pissed about, but I wouldn’t say we were deniers. Are you ready to Step Into the Grand Tour? So they’re going into this world and we’re coming out of the oldest institution, which is, for better or for worse, the BBC is a dysfunctional family that I very much liked.We began as a business relationship [with Amazon], but now we have a proper TV relationship.

So whenever I needed a meeting or we needed to discuss stuff, they were there.It’s hard enough to get everyone together because everyone’s got their own time table. I spend a quite lot of time working with people in their twenties.“That’s the nature of TV, it has a big influx of people of that age who disperse and move on to other things, it’s all very fluid.”James’ comments come after he was asked about the pressures of being a man in the modern world.He said he “witnessed the move into the physical age and the dawn of the internet”, which he says has made “such a difference”.Speaking on the Driven podcast, he divulged: “In the last decade, especially in the last four or five years, everything we held adhere and thought was terrible is being questioned.”Giving examples, he added: “Society, class, race, the environment, how we consume things and how we think about things… everything is up for grabs.“It’s baffling and confusing but it’s also incredibly exciting.“There was nothing like that as much going on when I was a youth.“I don’t think the youth of Britain have been in better shape ever really.“They are going to change the world, they really are going to do it and good luck to them.Ahead of his stint on Top Gear and The Grand Tour, James worked at a hospital as a records officer and had a short stint in the civil service.He went on to work as a sub-editor for The Engineer and later Autocar magazine.In his earlier days, he studied music at university and played the flute and piano.James said he “just so happened to be good” at music, but never visualised himself as a musician.“I was able to do it and I fancied going to university.“I was pretty useless as a young person, I had no ambition and no vision into my future, I was pretty lazy,” he added.“I was a very late developer, so the future was always a grey fog, it still is a grey fog to be honest, but there’s a little bit of definition in there.” See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, I feel great.”But he also suffered another health scare, after already battling pneumonia in 2017 which postponed filming of the Grand Tour’s second series.He said: “I had a small operation, I was in the bar after half an hour. People who I’ve worked with for 20 years or so.”We are more used to Sun columnist Jeremy’s tough exterior and no-nonsense opinions, but he admits the tears were partly due to not getting a proper send-off from Top Gear in 2015.I never got the chance to say goodbye to Top Gear. And I’m thinking, “Oh, my God, I couldn’t do that.” But then again, I watched him [Cruise] then redo stuff on the hop. The Grand Tour was filming in Georgia in October 2018 for an episode of season 3. We can put those hats on quite easily, journalistically.The other thing people might pick up on is we’re talking about global warming and the planet when we’re into that where the lake is, on the water. No, nobody gets figures.