Jeremy Clarkson Is Too 'Unfit and Fat and Old' to Be Doing The Grand Tour Anymore

Confirmation from the BBC that Top Gear wouldn't return on the small screen after host Freddie Flintoff's accident from last year didn't come as a shock, though it was still an upsetting piece of news for fans of the time-enduring series. Shortly after came reports that The Grand Tour, which started out as an experiment on Amazon Prime with the original Top Gear trio of hosts in 2016, was also ending.

Jeremy Clarkson is now confirming that this is, indeed, the case. The Grand Tour is coming to an end, and while that's bad news, it's not exactly surprising. As Clarkson himself says, you can only expect a trio of old men to be doing this kind of dangerous stunts that they've been doing and still live to tell the tale for so long.

When word got out that the show was wrapping up, it was said that Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May wanted to focus on other personal projects. Their age also played a part in the decision, in that they'd finally accepted that they were getting too old for this kind of antics. For reference, Clarkson and May are in their early 60s, while Hammond is the youngest, at 54.

In a new interview, Clarkson confirms the latter. He describes himself as too "unfit and fat and old" to carry on like he's had for years for the show and says he's basically unable to handle the demands of such a physical show. Another thing that weighed heavily in the balance is that they've done all there is to do with cars.

"I’ve driven cars higher than anyone else and further north than anyone else," Clarkson explains. "We’ve done everything you can do with a car. When we had meetings about what to do next, people just threw their arms in the air."

He also mentions May's belief that the auto future is electric, but he can't be bothered to see the appeal of that. For Clarkson, an electric vehicle is as exciting and as glamorous as "a chest freezer or a microwave oven," and no one wants to see this kind of content on television. It's the end of an era in more ways than one.

The silver lining to the news is that The Grand Tour still has three more specials to air. Once they're out, there's always whatever projects the trio come up with separately or, worst case scenario, Clarkson's farming adventure, which has already proved a hit on various platforms.