After the BBC revealed that “Top Gear” gained’t be returning “for the foreseeable future,” former presenter James May has mentioned that the sequence wants “a little bit of a rethink.”
In an interview on the BBC’s “Today” podcast, May — who hosted “Top Gear” alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond for over a decade — mentioned that the present should be revamped each time it does return.
“My sincere view is — I can say this now — it does want a little bit of a rethink,” May instructed the BBC. “It’s time for a brand new format and a brand new strategy to the topic as a result of the topic has not been this fascinating, I think, because the automotive has been invented.”
On Tuesday, the BBC introduced that “Top Gear” had formally been placed on pause following a halt in manufacturing after presenter Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff was injured in an on-set accident in December. Flintoff had been a presenter on “Top Gear” since 2019, alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.
“I’ve solely met Freddie a few times but it surely’s clearly extra severe than all of us thought,” May mentioned of Flintoff’s accident.
In 2015, May and Hammond left the sequence after Clarkson was fired for punching a producer, and the trio went on to host a brand new automotive sequence, “The Grand Tour,” on Amazon Prime Video. However, May had just a few phrases for followers who’ve been asking him to “come again and rescue” the present following Tuesday’s information.
“It did annoy me a bit as a result of there have been lots of people saying, ‘They’ve carried out that fallacious and now you’ll be able to come again and rescue it,’” May mentioned, including of Flintoff: “The bloke’s harm himself very badly in a life-changing means, clearly. And you can maybe not use it as a possibility to be partisan. You may maybe simply say, ‘Rotten little bit of luck, hope you get properly quickly.’”
May’s full interview on the BBC’s “Today” podcast will probably be launched on Thursday.
