Grand Tour reboot without Clarkson, Hammond and May has rumoured new line-up
A report in The Sun suggests that the new series will be revamped with a younger cast who are popular on social media, claiming that trainspotter Francis Bourgeois and YouTube petrolheads Thomas Holland and James Engelsman will take over.
Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond left the Prime Video car series after five series in the driving seat as their contracts came to an end. But TV industry magazine Broadcast magazine confirmed in August 2024 that a reboot was in the works after Studio Lambert was awarded a contract to 'develop a fresh version' of the show.
Read more: Will you watch The Grand Tour without Clarkson, Hammond and May?
Studio Lambert are the production company behind hit reality shows The Traitors, Gogglebox and Squid Game: The Challenge. They are said to have to have won the contract after beating rival pitches from Shine TV – who make MasterChef and The Hunted – and recently founded Orchard Studios.
Very few details are known about the new format of The Grand Tour. Hammond, May and Clarkson's special Sand Job was their last run, filmed in Zimbabwe in 2023 and aired on Prime Video in 2024.
In May 2025, The Sun reported that a new trio had been signed up that would bring a younger, fresher vibe to the show.
The newspaper claimed that TV insiders had revealed the revamped cast would feature Francis Bourgeois, Thomas Holland and James Engelsman in place of Clarkson, Hammond and May.
Bourgeois, 24, is best known for his popular trainspotting videos on TikTok and Instagram, where he has interviewed celebrities including Louis Theroux and Tom Daley.
Canadian car enthusiast Holland launched his Throttle House YouTube channel in 2015 and three years later was joined by British fan Engelsman after they met in Toronto. Throttle House has racked up 3.2million subscribers, meaning that the potential new cast could bring some healthy viewing figures with them.
The trio confirmed that they had left The Grand Tour willingly in 2024 after deciding that their time fronting the show had come to a natural end.
Hammond told Yahoo UK: "The key thing on that whole issue, [is] we had decided years ago that we wanted to be in control. Having set off on this incredible adventure that none of us thought would ever come our way, we all wanted to be the ones — and I don't just mean us three, all of us— to decide when and where and how we landed it, and we have done."
May told the Radio Times in June last year: "I mean, some people have said we've been cancelled. But really we're getting quite close to the end of our contract, but we didn't really have any particular plans to keep going because we're all really just getting a bit old. It might be time to let someone else have a crack at it."
Clarkson, May and Hammond rose to fame on BBC show Top Gear before they left in 2015 and signed a deal with Amazon Prime to host a new car show The Grand Tour instead. Clarkson had been suspended by the BBC that year after he punched Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon in an argument over food while filming on location.
Top Gear continued with new hosts, but this year the BBC confirmed it had decided to "rest" the show after recent hit Freddie Flintoff quit following his injury while filming in December 2022. The retired cricket player was involved in a high-speed crash in a three-wheeled Morgan Super 3 which does not contain airbags. The TV star was reportedly left with broken ribs and facial injuries after being airlifted to hospital.
Flintoff had hosted the show from 2019, along with Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris. After Clarkson, May and Hammond jumped ship in 2015, it was hosted by TV and radio presenter Chris Evans and Friends star Matt Le Blanc among others.
All The Grand Tour series are available to stream on Prime Video.
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