Former Top Gear host James May has recently gone on record saying that new show’s Cenotaph stunt was “probably a little bit ill-judged.”
The stunt was performed by Matt LeBlanc and rally driver Ken Block, who went on to perform wheel spins on the road close to the Cenotaph war memorial in central London.
“I have driven up and down that road, yes, but no, I don’t do doughnuts – it’s inappropriate wherever you do it in my view”, said Captain Slow during an interview with The Guardian, adding that it was “possibly a little unwise, ill-advised.”
May also revealed that the new show he, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond are currently filming for Amazon will ditch the TV studio and will be shot entirely on the road.
He said that the, ’till now untitled, show will run for at least 11 episodes and that will debut this autumn.
“We’re not a studio-centered thing anymore. We are making a series of TV films and we don’t have a base. It is massively expensive what we are doing, for reasons that I hope will become apparent when you see it. We are doing more episodes than we did in the latter days of Top Gear. It is quite intense.”
May also touched on the rumors concerning what himself and his colleagues may or may not be earning through their new Amazon deal, saying that rumors have been “all bollocks.”
“The figures aren’t right and anyway they don’t give us a great big bag of money and say, ‘Here’s your money go off and spend it’. They give it to us bits at a time. We are doing it over three years and there are going to be 30-plus long episodes. So no, we haven’t all been out and bought a yacht. I’ve got a new pair of trainers, that’s the only difference in my life since I started working for Amazon.”
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