Former BBC Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in line to make millions from their Amazon Grand Tour series.
The trio set up a television company Chump Holdings with their executive producer Andy Wilman to deliver a new series of motoring shows for the Amazon Prime channel.
Now they are all set to cash in on a £29million windfall after their Grand Tour company was wound up, leaving millions in the bank to be shared between them.
The company was wound up last month with an estimated surplus of £28,927,645 after all debts had been paid, according to Companies House records.
Chump Holdings Ltd was set up in October 2015, shortly after Clarkson, 59, Hammond, 49, and May, 56, announced they had struck a deal with Amazon to make a new car show.
The trio, alongside Wilman, were responsible for the huge success of Top Gear, which grew from humble beginnings in 2002 into a global behemoth attracting hundreds of millions of viewers.
Following Clarkson’s “fracas” with a Top Gear producer in 2015, the BBC decided against renewing his contract and his two co-hosts later followed him out the door.
They have presented The Grand Tour since November 2016.
