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Jeremy Clarkson has revealed why he found it all a little emotional farewelling the studio audience on The Grand Tour recently – he didn’t get a proper Top Gear farewell.

The host left the BBC show in acrimonious terms in 2015 amid claims he had a run in with a producer, seemingly disappearing into the night.

With the grand return to the spotlight on the Amazon Prime show later on alongside comrades James May and Richard Hammond, the three have now farewelled the show ‘as we know it’ and that got Jeremy all in his feels.

As he explained the show wasn’t leaving per se, just the tent with the audience, he began to well up in scenes that will stream today on the platform.




Now Jeremy has told The Sun he feels he got a little teary due to the fact he never got a proper goodbye to Top Gear, a show he dubbed ‘his baby’.

‘In 2002 I came up with the Stig, then an audience with a track and all that stuff. So, you know, you do something for 17 years and then it goes,’ the 59-year-old said this weekend.

He added: ‘The truth of it is, I think, I never got the chance to say goodbye to Top Gear. One minute I was there and one minute I wasn’t. It was like, did the show and then never did another one.

Jeremy Clarkson tears up in The Grand Tour season 3 finale (Picture: Amazon Prime)

‘Never said goodbye. Never got a gold watch. Never got a retirement speech. Nothing. So this was almost as though we were saying goodbye to Top Gear as well. That’s why it was so emotional for me.’

He wasn’t the only one who felt the feels as they said farewell, though, with ‘man of wood’ co-host James also letting his emotions out, as Jeremy said: ‘…behind the scenes were quite a few quivery lips. People who I’ve worked with for 20 years or so.’

While The Grand Tour will be returning for a fourth series, which is already a work in progress, the motoring juggernaut won’t be filmed in the same studio tent, with the trio setting off on various epic road trips in a similar fashion to their Mongolia special last week.

The Grand Tour season 3 finale is available to stream on Amazon Prime now.

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