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James May, former presenter of Top Gear, has suggested that the show needs a "rethink". Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said it would be a "shame" if the BBC didn't refresh the format of the popular motoring series.

Top Gear presenter Freddie Flintoff voiced his concerns about safety during filming on the same day as he was injured in a 130mph crash, The Sun newspaper reports.

The Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that , in all likelihood, will not return to screens following a near-fatal crash involving one of its star presenters, Freddie Flintoff. Following the show being put “on hold” in March, the paper claims that the hit show’s production team has been dismantled.

Former England cricket captain Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff has been pictured for the first time since he was injured in a car accident during filming of the BBC series Top Gear.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks host Greg Davies has opened up about his most embarrassing celebrity encounters - including the time he met his famous crush, Blue Peter star Janet Ellis. The comedian told OK! that he ran into Janet - who is the mum of singer Sophie Ellis Bextor - in a chip shop, but ended up "humiliating" himself. "I met Janet Ellis once in a fish and chip shop.

A number of Netflix rivals are offering free trials to tempt subscribers as the former 'chill' platform is criticised for its password charging extras, those who share details with family and friends face higher rates. Up until now, using someone elses log in has been a popular way at splitting the cost of the £6.99 subscription.

During his time on Australian soap, Neighbours, Mark Little played the iconic Joe Mangal, who had a relatively clean-cut appearance.  In contrast to his character, who had short dark hair and no facial hair, the 63 year old appeared unrecognisable in a recent TV appearance. Speaking on the BBC's cricket talk show, View from the Boundary in the UK, Mark had a considerably more rugged appearance with wavy long grey hair and a new bushy beard. After resurfacing on TV over the weekend, the Brisbane-born soap star, who now lives in Wales, was compared to the likes of Top Gear's James May, and even former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

The Grand Tour fans have been given a look into its upcoming series as Amazon Prime Video confirmed the new show's release date.

Paddy McGuinness was a picture of despondency this week, as the BBC indefinitely paused production on his motoring series Top Gear.The 49 year old dad-of-three has co-presented the show since 2019 alongside ex-cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff and Chris Harris, following the exit of previous stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May several years earlier, who collectively jumped ship to Amazon Prime Video for The Grand Tour. News of Top Gear's axe arrived on Thursday in light of 45 year old Freddie's life-threatening injury while working behind the wheel for the show. Back in December at Surrey's Dunsfold Aerodrome, he was involved in a horrific accident that saw him airlifted to hospital.

Amazon Prime Video may be rethinking its relationship with Jeremy Clarkson, but it has doubled down on James May.

EXCLUSIVE: James May will be back for a third helping of his Amazon Our Man In… travel show.

EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan is set to return to true-crime documentaries under his global deal with News Corp and Fox News Media.

Jeremy Clarkson, 62, first broadcasted Clarkson's Farm on Amazon Prime Video last summer with the series documenting the former Top Gear presenter's attempts at running a thousand-acre farm in the Cotswolds. James May, 59, Jeremy's longterm pal and The Grand Tour co-star has admitted in a recent podcast that he finds the hit farming show "infuriatingly inept at times", while also claiming he thinks Jeremy is "putting it on".Jeremy bought the land in 2008, with the place formerly being called Curdle Hill Farm.Clarkson then decided later on to try farming the land himself and renamed the farm Diddly Squat due to its lack of money-making potential.While the Prime Video series has been a huge success, Jeremy's former Top Gear colleague James May is not sure about the show.He said on The Radio Times podcast: "I don’t know how much of the practical stuff he’s really doing."He’s obviously having a go, which is odd because I do find him infuriatingly inept at times – to the extent that I think he might be putting it on."He might think it’s cute, or it makes him seem more sophisticated.Sometimes his inability to operate the mechanism that opens a sliding door makes me think rations are wasted on this man."James and Jeremy co-hosted Top Gear, alongside fellow presenter Richard Hammong, 52, for over a decade together.After leaving the BBC show in 2015, the three went on to film The Grand Tour with Amazon Prime.When James was asked if he would ever be tempted to get into the farming business, he sternly replied: "Christ no."Farming is just big gardening in my view.

Richard Hammond feared James May was dead after his horror crash while filming 'The Grand Tour'. The 52-year-old TV presenter feared the worst when his 59-year-old co-host smashed his motor up while shooting a stunt in Norway for their Amazon Prime Video show. Speaking on 'The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X', he said: "I don't know what came over him, genuinely, I don't [.

James May, 59, who appeared on BBC series Top Gear alongside Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson from 2003 until 2015, was speaking ahead of the latest special of the trio's series called The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick, which is released on Amazon Prime on Friday, September 16 and takes place in the Scandinavian Arctic Circle. In a game of “would you rather”, James’ humorous answers revealed more about the trio’s love-hate relationship that comes across so well on screen, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk and other publications.When asked who he would rather be stranded on a desert island with, "Jeremy or Richard", James wanted to cheekily ditch them both, as he immediately responded: “So I don’t have the option of just being on my own?”But after some thought, James jokingly went on to say: “It’s tempting to say Clarkson because he’d probably die sooner.

The Grand Tour, which includes footage of co-star James May's crash. During filming for the upcoming special, titled A Scandi Flick, May was hospitalised after crashing into the wall of a naval base whilst travelling at 75mph, with tests revealing he suffered a broken rib. Though he said the crash looked "dramatic", May has since said he was "basically okay".

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have promised to keep making The Grand Tour until ‘one of them dies. ’The trio have been testing cars on hair-raising roads on our screens since the early 2000s, when they presented Top Gear on the BBC. The motorheads have since moved to Amazon Prime with The Grand Tour, a similarly formatted show which sees them travel across the world in different specials.

Lancashire funnyman Paddy McGuinness has surprised his fans with an unusual birthday celebration on social media, as he turned 49 on Sunday. The Top Gear presenter ditched the more typical convention of cake and presents as he participated in a special fitness challenge to mark his 49 years in the world. To celebrate his birthday, and reaching the last year of his forties before next year’s big 50, Paddy decided to showcase his impressive fitness skills by performing 49 press ups, one for every year birthday he has had so far.

James emphasised on Twitter to his 3.2 million followers that the incident happened a while ago. “Thank you for all your kind comments and funny jokes re my crash, but it was a while back, not that bad, and I’m perfectly OK,” he said.He then added: “Apologies to Evo fans for binning the VIII. #Bell**d.”Alongside his Grand Tour co-stars James and the gang reportedly took turns to race cars up and down a tunnel heading towards a rock wall. A source reported to The Sun that the lights in the tunnel didn’t turn on until the star were already inside, meaning they had limited time to react. They explained, after the crash occurred: “It looked extremely worrying at first.

John Wayne rose to prominence as an American actor and filmmaker who became a popular icon through his starring roles during the "Hollywood Golden Age".The three-time married actor is especially known for his appearances in Western and war films, his career having flourished from the silent era of the 1920s through the American New Wave that began in the mid-Sixties.In total, Wayne — whose real name was Marion Robert Morrison — starred in 179 film and television productions.In the legend's real life, the actor had a tumultuous love life, most notably with his second wife Esperanza Baur, who assumed he had been having an extramarital affair.Esperanza was a former Mexican actress and the second of John’s three marriages, who had believed her husband was seeing actress Gail Russell.Both actors denied having an affair despite the accusation.John and Gail filmed the 1946 film, Angel and the Badman, where the pair were involved in love scenes during the movie.The actor's other half was unimpressed and later accused the actor of having an affair.According to the Outsider, following a wrap party for the film, John arrived back at his estate late.But an allegedly intoxicated Esperanza had waited to catch her husband.As the actor walked through the door, she attempted to shoot him.Despite the drama, the couple remarkably stayed married for almost seven more years before they eventually divorced.The Hollywood actor tied the knot with Esperanza in 1946 but the couple called it quits with a high-profile divorce in 1954.John was first married to his wife Josephine Wayne after the pair tied the knot in 1933 but they called it quits 12 years later.James May 'hospitalised with broken rib as stunt goes horribly wrong'[LATEST]Nigella