Lige siden Top Gear-trioens exit fra BBC har de lavet en masse for Amazon Prime. The Grand Tour er en slags spirituel efterfølger, Jeremy Clarkson har lavet Clarkson's Farm og James May har lavet "Our Man In...".
Men det samarbejde står nu til at stoppe. Variety kan bekræfte via kilder at Amazon ikke ønsker at forlænge samarbejdet med Clarkson udover de afsnit af Clarkson's Farm og The Grand Tour der i forvejen er bestilt, og det vides ikke hvor mange af hver, men vi ser i hvert fald yderligere to sæsoner af Clarkson's Farm, og fire specialepisoder af Grand Tour mere.
Det lader ikke til at være direkte forbundet med den kontroversielle sag Clarkson befinder sig i, efter han skrev en hadefuld klumme om Meghan Markle og Prins Harry i The Sun for et par dage siden, hvor han blandt andet foreslog at Markle burde gå igennem Londons gader nøgen:
"I hate [Meghan Markle]...I hate her on a cellular level...At night, I'm unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her."
Clarkson har selv undskyldt adskillige gange efter The Sun modtog flere klager end de nogensinde har fået før over en klumme. Han har desuden personligt undskyldt overfor parret, men en talsperson har sendt følgende besked tilbage:
"On Dec. 25, 2022, Mr. Clarkson wrote solely to Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. The contents of his correspondence were marked Private and Confidential. While a new public apology has been issued today by Mr. Clarkson, what remains to be addressed is his long-standing pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories, and misogyny. Unless each of his other pieces were also written 'in a hurry,' as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate."