Richard Hammond teases TV reunion with Jeremy Clarkson and James May in career admission

Former Top Gear star Richard Hammond has shared a cheeky idea for his next TV show with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.

The trio first hit screens on the BBC motoring programme from 2003 until 2015, after Clarkson was sacked for an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” on a Top Gear producer, which he later apologised for and agreed to pay damages.

After Hammond and May followed him out the door and quit the show, saying they came as a “package”, they moved over to The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video.

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However, that ended last year with two specials filmed in Zimbabwe and Mauritania, and there don’t appear to be any plans for the trio to reunite.

But Hammond has now teased a future project, joking they’ll “take on the world ” in a show focused on football rather than cars.

“I think we’d set up a three-a-side football team and take on the world,” he joked to the Oxford Mail.

He also spoke about their relationship together now (which often sees May and Clarkson in rivalry about their pubs), confirming: “We still talk.

“We always used to be asked that a lot, but we were together so much filming that the only way to spend more time together would have been to marry one another, really.

“We had time to go home, unpack, catch up, remember where you lived, and we were all together again, so we never got into the habit of massively socialising together.

“We do as we’ll meet up at parties and events and always shall, obviously, as you don’t spend nearly 25 years working with people and not become friends.”

Clarkson, Hammond and May have all previously addressed the possibility of another future programme, and have never fully ruled it out.

Last year, May said he thinks the time is right for a brand new motoring show, before claiming he, Clarkson and Hammond are “too old”.

“If you wanted to make a serious, slightly more consumerish car show, there’s never been a better time for it because it’s a very interesting topic,” he told The Sun.

“What is going to happen to the car, car ownership, attitudes to the car, how we use it, dispose of it, how we power it?

“It’s all interesting stuff, it’s the most interesting time in the car’s history since it was invented. So I can’t believe somewhere or other, a slightly more modern car show won’t emerge. But we can’t do it as we’re too old.”

However, after being probed about a reunion, he added to Radio 4’s Today programme: “I wouldn’t rule it out, but you do have to bear in mind that we’re all getting on a bit.”

Meanwhile, in an interview with The Times, Clarkson claimed he was too “unfit and fat and old” for an “immensely physical” show like The Grand Tour.

He went on: “We’ve spent more time in each other’s company than our families’ over the last 25 years, so I don’t think it would have lasted as long as it did if we’d hated each other as much as James likes to think.”

“They do as they’re told,” he added.

The Grand Tour is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.