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Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he was ‘mostly smashed’ while filming the final episode of The Grand Tour with his co-stars James May and Richard Hammond.
The trio, who first hit our screens together on Top Gear 22 years ago, are celebrating their final stint on television as their Amazon Prime series reaches its end.
And they’ve certainly gone out with a bang, with the Clarkson’s Farm star now revealing their antics behind-the-scenes.
Speaking at a Q&A following a premiere screening of The Grand Tour: One For The Road, the 64-year-old said that he and his co-stars were ‘mostly smashed’ during filming but ‘hopefully nobody will notice’.
He also claimed that a third of a cargo plane was filled with beer, instead of camera equipment.
When asked about how much units of alcohol they drank per episode, Clarkson revealed: ‘I’ll let you into a little secret on that one.
The trio were ‘mostly smashed’ during filming (Picture: Prime Video/PA Wire)
The trio have appeared on our screens for the last time together (Picture: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
‘We had a big cargo plane… to move all of the kit that we needed out to film a show like that, you’ve got 70 people on the crew, a lot of people, you’ve got to get the cars out there, the spare parts out there, the camera equipment, the sound equipment, the minicams, the drones, it was a hell of a lot, and we didn’t fill the plane.
‘So there was third of it was left – we thought, “Well what should we put on that?” Beer was the answer.
‘So we had a third of an Antonov of beer to get through on that one.’
He went on: ‘But we do drink a lot, we are mostly smashed… hopefully, nobody will notice that at the end of that lake crossing most of that drink had gone.
‘Did you then notice we set off driving the next day?
‘I’m duty-bound to tell you there was a three-day gap between arriving and setting off – but there wasn’t.’
Source:: Metro
