RICHARD EDEN: The Grand Tour's Jeremy Clarkson set for £24million payday with Top Gear pals Richard Hammond and James May By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 00:21, 18 July 2024 | Updated: 00:23, 18 July 2024 e-mail View comments When Jeremy Clarkson finally opens his new pub in the Cotswolds to the public, the drinks should be on him. For I can reveal that the motormouth is about to share an astonishing £24 million pay-out with his former TV presenter colleagues, Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond and James May . The Grand Tour trio and their producer, Andy Wilman, are closing a company they used to channel their earnings from the Amazon Prime Video series and newly published documents show that it's worth the huge sum.
The four, who previously worked on BBC One's Top Gear , are all directors and equal shareholders in W. Chump & Son Ltd, so will receive £6 million each. The Declaration of Solvency showed the firm has £22.
9 million in cash and is owed a further £1.11 million from trade debtors. W.
Chump & Sons was set up to manage income from the motoring show, which is now coming to an end, so the firm is being shut down. At one point, streaming giant Amazon was paying the team a reported £160 million for three series of the programme. It was launched after the trio left the BBC following an incident in which irascible Clarkson, 64, punched a producer, Oisin Tymon, in a row over the lack of hot food after a day's filming.
The Grand Tour featuring James May (left),.
