Jeremy Clarkson: ‘Considered strangling someone’ Grand Tour star takes swipe at co-hosts

Jeremy Clarkson, 59, revealed he “never, ever, ever” spends time with his co-hosts James May, 56, and Richard Hammond, 49, from Amazon Prime’s The Grand Tour “socially”. The trio, who first started working together on BBC’s Top Gear, are loved by viewers for their friendship fuelled by banter and light-hearted teasing. However, Jeremy was quick to deny the presenters “spend all of their lives together”. He explained to The Sun: “Everybody assumes we spend all of our lives together. We absolutely don’t.

“I on average I spend… I think it’s 300 days a year with them at work. So once I get my 60 days of not being… I mean, I’ve got friends.

“We never, ever, ever see each other socially. But why would you when you literally live cheek by jowl with them for 300 days a year and have done for 17 years?”

Although the outspoken host insisted working with James and Richard is “brilliant” in general, he admitted they tend to “drive each other mad”.

Jeremy added to the publication: “We all joke about how we hate each other, and I’m sure that at one point or another over the years considered actually strangling someone.”

The TV personality went on to compare their love/hate dynamic to a brotherly relationship.

He continued: “I know that I drive James and Richard mad and they drive me mad, and you know we all drive one another mad from time to time, much like brothers do.

“But the truth is we spend an enormous amount of time laughing. I mean probably 40 per cent of the time we’re together we’re laughing. 

“We do properly c**p ourselves all the time giggling about this, that and the other.”

Outside of The Grand Tour, Jeremy is about to embark on a new venture in a TV series based on farming.

Unfortunately, the car enthusiast admitted he had suffered a set-back when seagulls savaged his crops.

In view of his 2.4 million Instagram followers, Jeremy shared a snap of him seeing to his crops from his tractor’s driving seat.

As he got closer to the crops, seagulls could be seen moving away.

The former Top Gear host added the caption: “I’ve decided to plant seagulls this year #newtofarming.”

Jeremy later shared a clip of him driving towards his crops as the seagulls flew off.

He captioned the video: “S**t. My crops are escaping #newtofarming.”

The presenter recently revealed what fans can expect from his new show, telling the Sunday Times: “We’re not making Countryfile. We’ll be showing it warts and all.

“For example, I have no view on badger culling in terms of whether it’s necessary, but if it’s happening we will not shy away from putting it in the programme.”

source: express.co.uk