Richard Hammond has shared his idea for a surprising new TV show with his old co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
The trio fronted the hugely popular BBC motoring show Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 and went on to host The Grand Tour on Prime Video.
The longtime presenters bid farewell to The Grand Tour last summer with an emotional finale episode.
Hammond has now shared his tongue-in-cheek plans for the pals to “take on the world” in a show that’s focused on football instead of motoring.
“I think we’d set up a three-a-side football team and take on the world,” he joked to the Oxford Mail.
The trio have been keeping busy with their separate pursuits since the end of The Grand Tour.
Clarkson presents Clarkson’s Farm about his farm in Oxfordshire on Prime Video, Hammond helms his car restoration show, Richard Hammond’s Workshop, and May appears in James May and the Dull Men on Discovery+.
Hammond gave an insight into how often the trio meet up since their working relationship ended.
“We still talk,” he said.
“We always used to be asked that a lot, but we were together so much filming that the only way to spend more time together would have been to marry one another really.”
He went on: “We do as we’ll meet up at parties and events and always shall obviously as you don’t spend nearly 25 years working with people and not become friends.”
The Grand Tour ended last summer after six series with its special final episode, One For The Road, in Botswana.
May later said it was time for a “new generation” to helm the show.
"We’d exhausted the subject, we are getting on a bit. I believe it’s time for a new generation to find a new take - I don’t know what it is,” he said on Sunday Brunch in February.
When asked by host Simon Rimmer if the decision felt right, he said: "Yes, I think so.
“You can’t overstay your welcome. You’re supposed to leave the audience wanting more. It’s the rule of show business."
The Grand Tour will reportedly be returning with a new presenting line-up.
The new hosts are thought to be YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, who co-host the channel Throttle House, and social media star Francis Bourgeois.
