The Grand Tour viewers ‘in tears’ over emotional final episode with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The two-hour special is titled “One for the Road,” and marks a last hurrah for presenting trio Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May after 22 years. For longer than my entire life them three have been creating entertaining car journalism for us and now it’s just gone.” While another compared the experience of watching the show to a night out with friends, writing: “Watching the last ever Grand Tour/Top Gear is like having a fantastic evening drinking a few beers, telling stories and laughing at a bar with your best friends but knowing at the end of the night you’ll never see each other again.” Several more fans simply shared memes showing men wiping away tears. : ‘After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I’m packing it in, because I’m too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in driving those I don’t.” He added: “What this means of course is that my 22-year partnership with James May and Richard Hammond is now over. It’s emotional.” Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May in the final ‘Grand Tour’ In a three-star review of the finale, The Independent’s television critic Nick Hilton wrote: “‘One for the Road’ might not have high drama or daredevil action, but it has plenty of the charismatic camaraderie that has turned this unlikely trio into televisual royalty.”