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In a massive coup, the adrenaline-fuelled series has persuaded Hollywood names to risk humiliation and appear as guests.
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The popular trio are making their much-hyped return to TV after Clarkson was sacked from Top Gear and the BBC for punching a producer in a row over a cold meal. 'He clearly didn't enjoy the experience and appeared to have drawn the short straw.' 'May wanted to throw up after being one of the spinner's passengers,' source revealed. Members of the spinning gangs were invited to join the live studio audience. Soweto alone is said to have 10,000 regular spinners whose skill behind the wheel makes them local celebrities.
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In a coup, the series persuaded Hollywood names such as Charlize Theron (above) to risk humiliation and appear as guestsĪnother show stunt was filmed in the iconic South African township Soweto where May, 52, was dispatched to probe the illegal, underground motorsport of 'spinning' - an outlawed craze which sees drivers dragging their cars at high speed until their tyres are shredded. The entire Mad Max-style segment, filmed in the Californian desert with 2,000 extras, cost £2.5 million to make. The cars include a Bugatti Veyron (£1.4 million) and a Rolls-Royce Phantom (£750,000). The series' six-minute long opening sequence features 150 custom cars and six jet planes, as well as acrobats and stilt-walkers. The 12-episode series to be aired on Amazon Prime next Friday (Nov 18) sees its massive branded tent and crew travel to 15 locations including Barbados, Jordan, Dubai, Namibia, Italy, Germany, California, Morocco, Tennessee, Finland, Holland - and Whitby in Yorkshire.Īmazon is reported to have paid for 36 episodes of The Grand Tour across three years, at an estimated £4.5 million a show, about ten times more than the cost of a Top Gear episode. 'That went down well with the live audience who found it unexpected, pretty shocking and extremely funny.' 'So Jeremy decides to check it out, aims his gun at a very old Mercedes and just completely obliterates it with bullets pumped from his automatic weapon. The source said: 'Perhaps the funniest moment is when Richard and James dive through an open window at a camp, followed by Jeremy whose bulk and height means he gets absolutely stuck and can't make it. They described the stunt as an 'original and cheeky way of paying tribute to the Queen in her 90th birthday year, which is exactly what we have come to expect from the boys'. Hammond was later pictured wearing the tiara worn by the 'plummy voiced lookalike' Queen and and Clarkson was pictured covered in blood and dust.ĭespite the very real danger the troupe appear to be putting themselves in to convince their fans to shell out £79 for an Amazon Prime membership, a show source said the result is 'absolutely hysterical'. The action-packed sequence, shown to 350 audience members at a live filming of the show in Johannesburg, South Africa, showed the motley trio battling it out with the deadliest elite fighters in the world in a string of desert challenges. Unfortunately, he aborted the drop 'when his trousers fell down in mid air' - weighed down by the hand grenades and ammunition hanging from his belt. In the scene filmed at an army base base deep in Jordan, called Operation Desert Stumble, a burly Clarkson, swathed in camouflage combat gear, heroically abseiled from the chopper.