Jeremy Clarkson refuses to watch Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness on ‘Top Gear’.
The TV star – who left the BBC show after an altercation with producer Oisin Tymon and went on to star in Amazon’s ‘The Grand Tour’ – admitted he will not watch new presenters Flintoff and McGuinness because he still feels like the show should be his.
Clarkson told Metro.co.uk: "I wish them all the very best but I don’t watch it. It was my baby and then it got taken away and they’ve got it now. It’s like it you’ve got a baby and it’s put up for adoption you hope the baby’s brought up very well."
Clarkson also revealed that his new special – ‘The Grand Tour presents Seamen’ – with James May and Richard Hammond was one of their most dangerous to date.
He said: "If people want to see three TV presenters being really hurt then this is a good place to go. My bruises lasted weeks. My boat was full of sharp edges and I kept being hurled into those. It wasn’t much fun. ‘Very close to where we were, four fishermen died. We weren’t exaggerating, they were big seas, and it was scary. The bigger boats we tried to use to get around the problem couldn’t sail because the sea was too rough.
"The conditions were unusually bad for that part of the world at that time of year. It was only when I saw the footage, particularly of James’ boat and the camera boats, that I thought ‘Bloody hell’. That’s the other thing of course: we can’t just think about ourselves, there were 50/60 crew out there on small boats that were sinking. Boats were sinking, I think Hammond may have been crying, and James was stranded. I thought for once we were actually going to be rid of James May but no, he survived."
Jeremy Clarkson refuses to watch Top Gear
