James May has said there is nothing planned for him to reunite on screen with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, even as he left the door slightly ajar with the familiar warning that you should never say never. The 63-year-old said it is difficult to envisage the three of them working together again.
The timing matters because May was speaking recently to LBC, giving a current answer to a question viewers have kept asking since The Grand Tour ended in 2024. For anyone wondering whether the trio who spent 23 years on television together might team up again, his answer was simple: not yet, and probably not soon.
May, Clarkson and Hammond spent 15 years on Top Gear and another eight years fronting The Grand Tour, which ran for six seasons before its final special, One For The Road, brought the series to an end in 2024. That long run made the trio one of television's most durable partnerships, and May's update lands as the first clear sign that no reunion project is in motion.
Still, he did not close the door entirely. May said there comes a point where you should let things lie, and added that in showbusiness you should leave the audience wanting more, hoping that the three of them had done exactly that. He also said they had always joked, partly in jest but with real meaning, that the hardest job was to land it safely and not fly it into the cliffs.
That is the friction in his comments. On one hand, he said a reunion is slightly difficult to envisage because, as he put it, they are knocking on a bit. On the other, he held back from a flat no. For now, though, his update points to the same conclusion: there is nothing on the table, no date and no project, and the three former presenters appear content to leave their partnership where it ended.
