The Grand Tour is OVER! Ex-Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond 'walk away' from the show after 20 years working together

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have quit The Grand Tour, bringing an end to a 20-year-long partnership, it is being reported.

The former Top Gear presenters have decided to 'walk away' from the show seven years after it was launched on Amazon's Prime Video, it is claimed.

An insider told the Sun that the 'surprising' decision 'very much marks the end of an era for the three presenters', who have worked together since 2003.

They added that although the show is one of the streaming platform's most watched shows 'the guys have made no bones about the fact they’re all advancing in years and they have lots of other projects to pursue.'

The source told the publication that the broadcasters 'felt like the time was right and wanted to go out on a high when the show remained popular'.

Fans of the show will still have some more helpings of The Grand Tour to look forward to - two special episodes which will follow Clarkson, May and Hammond to Mauritania and Zimbabwe will be released next year.

The trio also have other projects in the pipeline - Clarkson, 63, recently filmed a third season of Clarkson's Farm and a fourth is in the pipeline, while May has another set of Our Man In... travelogues to be released. 

It comes weeks after their former bosses at the BBC announced Top Gear, which turned the trio into superstars, was being axed in the aftermath of a horrific crash involving presenter Andrew Flintoff.

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