Jeremy Clarkson has ignited a public war of words against former SAS trooper and survival expert Bear Grylls just days ahead of the final The Grand Tour episode.
Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be seen on screen together for the last time on Friday, with Amazon Prime dropping the final episode of their series – One for the Road.
The synopsis for the episode reads: “In their last ever Grand Tour adventure, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May ignore the instructions of Mr. Wilman and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own.
“A Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes leading to an emotional ending on a strangely familiar island.”
Clarkson’s latest public spat with Grylls comes after the Clarkson’s Farm star hit out at podcaster Joe Rogan for his part in regurgitating a “made-up” story about his time filming Top Gear.
Clarkson has gone on to hit out at Grylls and claimed that it was his fault that people assume things about their show after it was revealed he would not take part in certain challenges he set during his brutal TV shows.
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Speaking to the Independent and other press about their most significant experiences over the years, the Diddly Squat Farm owner slammed: “If you were to ask James about his most miserable night, we’d all agree it was in the Himalayas.
“I know a lot of people, after Bear Grylls was exposed for buying costumes and staying in hotels, assume everybody does and they assume that we do. And we never did. If we said we camped, we camped.”
His scathing comments towards Grylls come days after Rogan joined current Top Gear presenter Chris Harris on his podcast and discussed a Tesla review the 64-year-old conducted while on the BBC show.
Rogan explained: “They did a terrible thing and I talked to (Elon) about it and he was furious. They pretended that his car died and they did it for a sketch.”
The trio have ended their 22-year TV career together
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“That’s the way those car shows are made. Ultimately you reverse engineer an outcome,” Harris replied, but the brief conversation seemed to irritate Clarkson.
Hitting back in his The Sun column, Clarkson slammed: “Talk turned to the story that I wrote a road test of the first ever Tesla before I’d driven it. And that the breakdown we showed on television was fabricated.
“There are lots of made-up stories about what happened when I hosted Top Gear. In the big scheme of things, it doesn’t matter. But it does wind me up something rotten when Joe and Chris perpetuate the myth that my Tesla road test was unfair.”
The trio recently opened up about how they felt about their hit series coming to an end, with May explaining he was “sad” to see it come to an end and explained: “It was the end of the whole thing.
The final episode drops on Amazon Prime on Friday, September 13
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“So, we all went round and had a bit of a handshaking thing and I realised that, although I’m sure I will run into them all again at some point, I may now not see some of them for years.
“That was a strange feeling because people like Ben Joiner, the Director of Photography, he’s been there since the first shoot, he’s been with us all the way through.”
Hammond recently reflected: “We’ve worked together for decades and we’ve been through good times and bad. We’ve seen each other in jungles covered in leeches, exhausted and grumpy in tents and boiling heat, elated in the most beautiful cities in the world. We’re a great big dysfunctional family, so there were a lot of tears.
Whilst Clarkson noted: “I was surprisingly unemotional in a weird way because I can see James and Hammond any time I want to, they’re only a phone call away, and I’m sure we will. And I’ve done enough of the travel, I was worn out by it.”
