Richard Hammond and James May reportedly aren’t filming without suspended Jeremy Clarkson (Picture: PA)

Richard Hammond and James May have reportedly refused to do Top Gear without Jeremy Clarkson.

The two remaining Top Gear hosts are sticking by Jeremy and not continuing the show without him, say The Mirror.

Reports say that BBC executives had held talks about airing the last few episodes featuring mainly recorded segments, with James and Richard filming the studio parts.

However according to The Mirror’s source the discussions didn’t get very far, as the co-hosts don’t want to carry on filming minus their leading man.


The source said: ‘They didn’t want to do it without Jeremy so the talks didn’t get off the ground. There is a feeling that it is all of them or none of them.’



Clarkson was suspended from the BBC after a ‘fracas’, allegedly with producer Oisin Tymon.

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Clarkson was suspended earlier this month after a ‘fracas’ (Picture: Reuters)

The row is said to have occurred when Clarkson was served a cold platter for dinner rather than hot food.

Jeremy’s close friend the writer and critic AA Gill wrote in The Sunday Times: ‘Jeremy reported the incident. It was over the absence of hot food at the end of a long and frustrating day with the prospect of another early start in the morning.

‘People work long hours with a great deal of stress, and small things – almost invariably food – are tetchy trip-wires. Whatever did happen, in mitigation to Jeremy, nobody works harder or under more stress than he.’

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