The Grand Tour - The BBC got bitchslapped. HARD.

[Almighty Space Duck]

Me also, kinda funny for a show about cars, but Vietnam felt very honest with way less scripted parts and a lot of funny moments.

There's so many little bits that make it for me. Stuff like Clarkson leaving his bike dumped on its side like a kid does with a push bike



And of course

 

[Atlas Sneezed]

Just finished it with the wife, it could've been more pompous at the end but wasn't. I really liked the "I'm deleting all your numbers once this is over" bit at the end.

And for all the banter between the guys, I'll also be missing the beautifull shots. I've bought some nice AV equipment over the years and TGT was one of the few shows where you could go "wow, all that time and money was worth it for this vista, that's fucking beautifull". Some of them were better than what any nature film could pull off

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Another sad thing is that it's very unlikely modern cars would last as long as the clunkers the trio used. Cars became planned obsolescence with the EVs being straight up 7 years until completely unusable. But even non EVs are way too dependent on central computers and complex wiring to be the old exploration vehicles. I also doubt new cars don't implement DRM for spare parts so you need to especially order a replacement.

 

[WarJams]

Finished watching it last night. Excellent end cap, especially when compared to the disappointing end of "Sand Job."

I just expected there would be some bigger contrived payoff at the end with the silver. Either them finding out it was fake, or getting it confiscated by customs trying to leave the country. Perhaps ending the show with a gag, like Seinfeld, with the three of them getting incarcerated in some dingy African jail for silver smuggling would have been too over the top, but damn would it have been funny.

 

[khaine]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jeremy-clarkson-confesses-grand-tour-33675271

Jeremy Clarkson confesses he and Grand Tour co-stars were 'mostly smashed' during filming​

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he and his fellow The Grand Tour hosts Richard Hammond and James May were "mostly smashed" during the filming of the trio's new show​

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Jeremy Clarkson has cheekily confessed that he and his co-stars Richard Hammond and James May were "mostly smashed" while filming The Grand Tour.

The outspoken TV star spilled the beans during a Q&A session after the premiere of The Grand Tour: One For The Road, hinting it might be the last time we see the famous trio in a car show together.



Fans gathered at Clarkson's newly opened pub, The Farmer's Dog in the Cotswolds, on Friday night September 13 for an exclusive ticket-only event to catch the first glimpse of the show.

READ MORE: Jeremy Clarkson 'dreads' going into care home and 'fears it's coming' following The Grand Tour finale

Revealing behind-the-scenes antics, Clarkson told attendees how they ended up with a surplus of space on a cargo plane meant for equipment and crew, which they decided to fill with beer.

When probed about their alcohol consumption during the episodes, the 64-year -old quipped: "I'll let you into a little secret. We had a big cargo plane to move all of the kit we needed to film and a crew of 70 people and more but we didn't fill the plane. A third of it was left we thought, 'so what should we put on that? ' Beer was the answer. But we do drink a lot, we are mostly smashed hopefully, nobody will notice."



Despite claiming there was a responsible three-day break before they started driving, Clarkson admitted that wasn't quite the case.

Jeremy hosted a ticket-only event to catch the first glimpse of the show (
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Jeremy opened up about what the trio got up to behind the scenes (
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Reflecting on his career, Clarkson also revealed his passion for cars isn't what it used to be, bluntly stating that modern cars are "they're all s**t now" and didn't hold back when describing Bolivia's capital, La Paz, as a "s**t hole."

He stated: "Genuinely 80 per cent of them now 90 per cent, I couldn't even identify. I don't know what they are, I don't care."

The owner of Diddly Squat farm also reminisced about his Top Gear days and filming in Alabama and Argentina where infamous episodes were shot. In an episode filmed in Alabama, the trio were reportedly chased out of town after spray-painting each others' cars with offensive messages.

While in Argentina, they sparked a diplomatic incident when one of the cars' number plates displayed the number 82 - which locals interpreted as a deliberate reference to the 1982 Falklands War.

Jeremy commented: "I was more frightened in Alabama than Argentina. In Argentina, we bravely flew away before the trouble started. The crew was there, and they had a really torrid time. Alabama was bad everybody ran there.

(L-R) Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond attend an evening with "The Grand Tour" at Television Centre
"At one point, I found myself behind James May's Cadillac. Behind me was a pickup truck with good old boys with guns - I guess it was a kind of 'look after your mates' situation. I thought, "f*** that," and overtook James, leaving him to it - it was pretty scary."

Clarkson was also asked who the fastest driver out of Hammond, May, and himself was. His response was: "Richard has driven fast twice, had his trousers cut off twice, and got in an ambulance twice. James once went 45 mph, and it nearly killed him."

After mishearing the question "What's next for you? " as "What sex are you? " he also joked "Oh the Labour Party's here! "

He also disclosed his top pick for the star in a reasonably priced car, naming music icon Bryan Ferry as his preferred guest. Downplaying Top Gear's sway over car buyers, he remarked: "We never thought we were influential." Reflecting on past reviews, he said: "It reviewed the Ford Orion and I gave it a really hard time."

Despite his critique, he noted: "It went on to be Britain's best-selling car." He then mused about another review: "I then said the Renault 6 TL was brilliant but they sold six."

 

[Valstrax]

Step into the Grand Tour

 

[Quote Cursor]

I was sorta expecting the Top Gear theme song at the end of the episode. Otherwise… Kino ending.

 

[Lerias]

Them claiming the Botswana special was their first ever Top Gear special road trip means that it was the first of three specials filmed in 2006-2007, I guess.
The Polar Special and US Special aired before the Botswanan one so it got me kind of confused at first though.

I gave Sand Job a lot of flak in this thread for potentially being the worst scripted special they've done so far but this final one redeems it all back, it all just felt a lot more honest and bantery with no stupid frills or dangerous stunts (apart from the Beetle false backup car being pushed off a cliff). Overall I can only wish those three the best in the future, godspeed.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

The Polar Special and US Special aired before the Botswanan one so it got me kind of confused at first though.

Maybe they don't consider those True and Honest Specials? The Polar Special was more of a challenge akin to their car vs blank episodes, and the US Special has some of the tropes of the Special, but didn't go full hog like the later ones do.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Maybe they don't consider those True and Honest Specials? The Polar Special was more of a challenge akin to their car vs blank episodes, and the US Special has some of the tropes of the Special, but didn't go full hog like the later ones do.

The first three specials were essentially a continuation of the pre-reboot "special episodes" top gear used to run, which were more like documentary episodes, or were informational while having some sort of theme. It's clear they were still trying to find a unique voice for that part of the show. You can see them tinkering with the format in each one.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Just watched “One for the Road.”

I’m tearing up a little.

I’m going to miss this.

 

[khaine]

 

[khaine]

And an article with James may:

James May Has One Regret From 'The Grand Tour' Series Finale​

"I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize."
James May joined Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond for the second season of the BBC series Top Gear in 2003, and the trio became an (un)holy trinity of global car culture, connecting to people around the world with a universal language of internal combustion, humor, and occasional nuclear-grade controversy.

Producer Andy Wilman, who's been with the show(s) since the very beginning, describes James May as “the viewer,” in the co-host dynamic. “It’s almost like he’s got half a foot in the living room, and it’s not a show he really likes,” said Wilman. And that’s exactly May’s appeal—especially for viewers who tell themselves they’ve only got one foot in fandom.

We spoke to May about the series finale of The Grand Tour, which airs Friday, Sept. 13 on Amazon. Titled One for The Road, the two-hour special brings the guys to a country they’ve never visited before, Zimbabwe, then caps off the series with a return to the Botswana salt flats where they ended their first travel special for Top Gear in 2007—bookending their adventures with some particularly poignant editing that I won’t spoil for you here.

Over more than two decades, May has developed some strong opinions about cars, roads, and countries that he was kind enough to share…

James May has had a lifetime of car-related adventures around the globe with Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
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Men's Journal: What’s the best car you’ve ever driven for the show?​

James May: I’d have to say the Ferrari 458 Speciale.

What about the worst car?​

Definitely the Crosley from [The Grand Tour special] Eurocrash.

How about the best roads to drive in the world?​

There’s a place in Japan up near Takayama [the Hakusan Shirakawago White Road] that winds up through the mountains. The scenery is lovely, and there’s a noodle bar at the top. I also liked that road in Colorado where the rock formations are on either side [State Highway 141 in Mesa County]. And I like the A-40 between London and Oxford.

Do you regret anything over the years?​

Probably crashing the [Mitsubishi] Evo [in “A Scandi Flick”], because it hurt, and I felt bad about it because I really like that car, and I know it has a very dedicated fan base. And they’re a bit pissed off at me for smashing it up. So, I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to the Evo owner’s club. I won’t do it again.

This Is the Most Spectacular Supercar You Can Drive Now​

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Forty-six episodes of 'The Grand Tour' were released over six series.
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What were the most exciting locations you frequented?​

It all tends to be quite exciting because we make it that way. There are various bits of the U.S. I’ve liked. I really like filming in bits of Africa—Botswana and Zimbabwe—Japan is wonderful to film in, so is France and, to be honest, England is wonderful to film in if you’re driving the right car and having the right adventure.

Any place in particular that was a nightmare to film in?​

I think for driving that was Madagascar. That road you wouldn’t even call a track—it was just the way the lorries went. That was challenging. Administratively, Italy is quite a challenging place to film in. It’s not really challenging for us in the car, but it’s challenging for the people who have to organize it because they have rules unlike any other country about what you’re allowed to show and not show, and you can have a sweeping shot of the Coliseum, and it costs you 10,000 euros. So, from a filmmaking point of view, it’s Italy. From a driving point of view, it’s Madagascar.

How about a superlative: favorite moment from filming The Grand Tour over the years?​

There was a wonderful one in Namibia driving across the sand dunes. There’s a great one in the recent [Zimbabwe] special. We arrived at the campsite at night and it was cool and the stars were out. We were very knackered, but I knew there was a beerwaiting for me. And that moment, which you don’t really see in the film, I had a moment of euphoria. One of those things where you think, “I’m actually doing this for a living, and this is fantastic, and it’s all been worth it.”

These Are the Most Insane Cars at Monterey 2024​

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Over 20 years of creating crazy car concoctions for Top Gear and The Grand Tour has led James May to this final, train track-riding conversion.
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What would be the biggest surprise for people to find out about the making of these travel specials?​

Probably just how long it takes in the planning, and just how many people are involved in setting up, filming, producing, and editing. This one’s two-hours long and I don’t know how many people were on the crew, but I think it was over 70. In the old days we used to have about 12 people but as things got more elaborate, the size of the crew, the size of the camp, and the size of the budget increased. It always amazes me, when you look at the TV business overall, that the yield is so poor in terms of the number of hours you get out as a proportion of the number of hours that are put in.

I think that would surprise people, especially the YouTube generation who are used to making what's essentially TV content on a very small handheld camera or even their telephone, that a thing like the Grand Tour is still such an enormous operation. It’s like moving an army around.

How have the last 22 years changed you?​

Well, I think there’s that old adage about travel broadening the mind, which I never used to be totally convinced by. I think that’s often an excuse for just going on too many holidays. But I think it has actually broadened my outlook of the world. One of the things that will be difficult about ending The Grand Tour is settling down to a couple of modest holidays a year rather than constant global adventuring.

So, in some ways it’s sort of spoiled me [and] possibly made me a little complacent about international travel and adventure, because I did it for a living and we were just doing it all the time. But overall, I think it probably did make me a better, more wide-eyed, more inquisitive person than I would have been if I’d stayed at home and worked in a bank.

We've Tried Thousands of Whiskeys. These 18 Bottles Are Great for Gifting​

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Jermey Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond drive down a dusty road in appropriately crusty cars for the last episode of The Grand Tour.
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Speaking of working at home, what would your father say about all of this?​

Weirdly I was talking to him about it a couple of weeks ago and my parents are from that generation where if they’re really honest, they can’t believe this is a job—was a job, I should say. But at the same time, I think he’s secretly very impressed that, between us, we managed to turn what would appear to be a continuous boys’ laugh into a 22-year long career and a living.

It’s not quite as simple as we make it seem and the editors make it seem. It can be quite grueling and quite hard, but obviously we don’t complain about it. We don’t talk about that because it sounds churlish, [in order] to maintain that it’s the best job in the world because to be brutally honest, it is.

In the final drive across the salt flats, you say, “I hope we've brought you a bit of happiness.” Is that the sum of it for you?​

Well, I hope we did, because I know a lot of people dislike us and blame us for all the ills of the world and all the rest of it. But over the years, I’ve had messages and letters from people who've said, “You three helped me through some very difficult times.” Through depression, serious illnesses, and even, to be honest, people who were contemplating suicide. And they said that The Grand Tour and Top Gear before it helped them through that.

So, if we’ve done that for just one person, I think it was worthwhile. And the important thing we always have to remember is we're doing it for the viewers. They were our first responsibility, and I think if we did make a lot of people very happy, if only briefly, it was a job worth doing.

Well, thank you for guinea pigging yourself for the rest of us.​

Yeah, somebody had to do it.

 

[Piggle-o]

The first three specials were essentially a continuation of the pre-reboot "special episodes" top gear used to run, which were more like documentary episodes, or were informational while having some sort of theme. It's clear they were still trying to find a unique voice for that part of the show. You can see them tinkering with the format in each one.

I don't know the exact timeline, but some of it was hammered out in Clarkson's direct to video specials he did outside of Top Gear.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I really hate the BBC's Top Gear videos on Youtube, it just completely removes all the fun moments and banter from episodes and just puts the bare essentials of the challenges. And I can't find a torrent of the well known challenges without downloading the entire series.

 

[123123ofno]

I really hate the BBC's Top Gear videos on Youtube, it just completely removes all the fun moments and banter from episodes and just puts the bare essentials of the challenges. And I can't find a torrent of the well known challenges without downloading the entire series.

Yeah, it's almost like the BBC have no fucking clue what made Top Gear great.

Most torrents lets you just deselect which files to download fyi

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Yeah, it's almost like the BBC have no fucking clue what made Top Gear great.

Most torrents lets you just deselect which files to download fyi

I'm trying to think of good episodes to download (since the specials are already in a torrent of its own), if anyone is autistic enough add to the list:
Episode 69: Amphibious cars.
Episode 72: Caravan holiday.
Episode 78: Reliant Robin shuttle.
Episode 80: Limos..
Episode 83: Amphibious cars 2.
Episode 86: London race.
Episode 90: 24 hour endurance race.
Episode 92: The police.
Episode 115: Airship caravan.
Episode 120: Toyota visits a volcano.
Episode 132: Combine snow plow.
Episode 137: Train out of cars.
Episode 152: Elderly car.
Episode 175: Ambulance.
Episode 175: Grizzly mountain.
Episode 132: Combine snow plow.

 

[D_Tractor]

Richard Hammond is getting divorced

https://x.com/RichardHammond/status/1877352460429439266

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Richard Hammond is getting divorced

https://x.com/RichardHammond/status/1877352460429439266

Hammond you blithering bellend, you crashed your marriage.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Step into the Grand Tour

Bless you for going for the Dragon Ball GT and Grand Tour fans. I hope one day you find one.

Richard Hammond is getting divorced

https://x.com/RichardHammond/status/1877352460429439266

Damn. Shame to hear.

https://archive.ph/rPcWE

Mail has the usual speculation.

Richard Hammond's wife Mindy 'kicked the Top Gear star out to sleep in the castle's barn' before he confirmed the end of their 28-year marriage on Thursday.
The TV star, 55, is reportedly staying at a rented property in a nearby village where he runs his 'Smallest Cog' car restoration garage.
But before this, he was thought to have been sleeping in a converted barn on his family's castle estate, according to The Sun.
Mindy had previously warned that he was on his 'last chance', eight years before the couple announced their marriage was over, but is understood to have since filed divorce papers.
According to the publication, she demanded the divorce after a source claimed she 'wanted him gone'.
A source told The Sun: 'Richard is very upset about all this. It seems he has tried hard to rekindle the relationship but to no avail. There is no speculation that any third party is involved.'


On Thursday, the Top Gear star shared that he and his spouse have split after 22 years of marriage, writing in a statement they will 'always be in each other's lives'

As the pair draw up divorce settlements, the publication added that Mindy wants to keep their £7million Bollitree Castle estate, which is located in Herefordshire.
MailOnline contacted a representative for Richard Hammond, who declined to comment.
On Thursday, the Top Gear star, 55, shared that he and his spouse have split after 22 years of marriage, writing in a statement they will 'always be in each other's lives.'
In 2017, Mindy, 54, made an appearance with Richard on This Morning after he was involved in a second high speed crash.
The TV star was filming for The Grand Tour in Switzerland when the car he was driving crashed and repeatedly flipped over before catching fire, moments after he managed to escape it.
In 2006 Richard suffered life-threatening head injuries and was in a coma following a high-speed crash as he filmed for BBC's Top Gear.
Following his second crash 11 years later, Mindy flew to be at her husband's bedside after he careered off the Swiss hillside and told ITV's This Morning: 'I did say three strikes and you're out. You've had two goes'.
His daughter Isabella who was behind the camera with younger sister Willow who told her dad: 'Don't crash again will you'.
She added: 'He has one of these every ten years so I've marked the next one in my diary'.
Mindy said she had predicted the crash after having a 'funny' feeling on the day before the crash.
She said: 'I actually called Richard on the day before which I don't usually do, ever.


'Then the day of the accident I call him and he said he was fine but had a couple more runs to do.
'Then there was a phone call and he said: 'I'd had a bit of a shunt'. I did go quite a bit funny which I've never done before'.
The star required reconstructive surgery on his fractured left knee having escaped the wreckage just seconds before it went up in flames.
Richard has repeatedly apologised to his wife and two daughters for putting them through more trauma.
He said today that he believed he might die when his car flew off the mountain.
He said he knew it was 'bad', adding: When the car touched down it smashed the bottom bit of my knee'.
When he was in hospital he revealed: 'They told me I've lost 7mm of height. I can't be losing that'.
Holly Willoughby responded with: So are you uneven?' and he said: 'Yes. No, no, I can't be running in circles for the rest of my life.'
The smash came more than a decade after Hammond's previous horror crash in 2006 when he flipped a car travelling at 318mph while filming for Top Gear, leaving him in a two-week coma with life-threatening head injuries.

The inventor of Richard Hammond's super car was forced to reveal the secrets of the £2 million prototype to salvage experts before the charred remains could be removed from the crash site.
The salvage operation was 'complicated and dangerous', according to Swiss engineers.
Before safe removal, the Croatian manufacturer of the Rimac Concept One car had to explain the secret mechanics.
Markus Erni, of Autostrassenhilfe Schweiz, who was involved in the salvage operation, said: 'Since it was a prototype, we had to speak to the manufacturers and gain their confidence so that they could give us the details of where the various units are installed.
'The co-operation was very good and decisive which enabled a safe removal.'
He added: 'The danger of a crash involving an electric car is that the rescuers cannot perceive the dangers with their senses. Electricity cannot be heard or smelt like fuel. The danger is therefore much higher for the rescuers. It's complicated and dangerous.'
The car burned at temperatures of 1200 to 1500 degrees. It was hosed with cold water for eight hours before a tow truck could safely remove it.
The former Top Gear presenter crashed in Hemberg, Switzerland, on Saturday afternoon.
He managed to escape from the burning car before it erupted into a fireball.
Emil Schmid, from the salvage firm which removed the vehicle, said: 'For the bystander it may have looked as if a few clowns were standing around the wreck for hours without doing anything. But the built-in energy packages in an electric car continue to work after a crash and keep the temperatures very high.'
He said: 'I had never had such an expensive wreck on my truck.'


Hammond, who was driving up a hill in the Rimac Concept One electric car when he crashed last month, said previously: 'It was the very last run of the day, at the top just over the finish line it got away from me and I went over the edge.'
He then hurtled 100 metres down a hill, narrowly avoiding crashing into a house and leaving craters in the cliffside.
He told DriveTribe: 'I was very much aware at that point that it being a hillclimb and me being at the end of it, I would be at the top of the hill.
'So what followed was getting down the hill very very quickly.
'I was aware that I was up, that I was high, that inevitably the car was going to come down, and of course there was a moment of dread 'Oh god, I'm going to die'.
'Also I was aware that the car was taking just such a beating.'
He added: 'What was probably going through my mind was 'well this is it'. I thought 'I've had it'.'
Hammond said he was conscious all the way through the crash, saying: 'You're aware of sky, ground, sky, ground, sky, ground' and comparing it to 'being in a tumble dryer full of bricks going down a hill'.
He was left with a knee injury from the crash, and said: 'I do remember saying to drag me by my arms not my legs because I think I've broken that leg.'
However, the injury did not alarm his daughter Isabella, who told him: 'Daddy it looks like you've fallen over in the playground,' he said.
Mindy had also previously shared in a newspaper column that she and Richard only enjoyed two minibreaks together throughout their marriage.
Writing for The Daily Express in 2017, she said: 'In our 22 years together we have managed precisely two 'romantic mini-breaks' – one in the first year of our relationship when we camped in Buttermere and woke to soggy bottoms and four inches of water and the other a quick trip to Rome a couple of years ago when we were both so exhausted we found ourselves nodding off after lunch and missing most of our sightseeing time.'
Richard shared the news of his marital split on X, writing: 'A little update from us; this Christmas we were together as a family and this year we will still be a family but just structured a bit differently.
'Our marriage is coming to end, but we've had an amazing 28 years together and two incredible daughters.
'We will always be in each other's lives and are proud of the family we created.
'We won't be commenting further and sincerely hope that our privacy and that of our children will be respected at this time. With Love, Richard and Mindy.'
The couple, who married in 2002, share daughters Isabella, 24, and Willow, 22, and it's thought that newspaper columnist Mindy has asked to keep the £7million Bollitree Castle estate as part of their split settlement.
Richard's 2017 crash, which left his co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and James May fearing he had been killed, came 11 years after he suffered life-threatening head injuries following a high-speed crash as he filmed Top Gear in 2006.
The presenter was in a coma for two weeks following the 288mph accident, but made a full recovery.
Richard also recently raised fears that his injuries might have caused onset dementia.
Talking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, he said: 'I worry about my memory because it's not brilliant. I can still read a script and deliver it but my long-term memory is not brilliant.
'I have to write things down and work hard to remember them sometimes. It might be the age, it might be the onset of something else, I worry about that. I do, I do. I should probably have a look and find out, because I do.'
Host Steven Bartlett asked him: 'Are you scared of finding out?'
He said: 'I am because it was a bleed on the front. It could mean there is an increased risk. I need to find out. I've been too scared to do it. I need to do it.
'Weirdly on the way here, I had to stop off for a medical for a production. They ask 'Have you been involved in any accidents?' I'm like 'Woooah! Can I have another piece of paper please?'
'I need to book myself in for one of those mid-life MOTs and check everything. I wanted to ask them to check there is nothing going awry up here [pointing to his head]. But I chickened out. Didn't.
'That means I probably need an MRI scan but at 53, your memory does start to get a bit... they call it lost key syndrome.
'I am quite forgetful, generally thinking about something else, the next thing and therefore I do drop the ball, I forget stuff a lot. That's just me. That's who I am.'


After the crash, which saw his Vampire jet car lose control and flip upside down after a tyre burst, he admitted to suffering from depression.
He said: 'I have no recollection because there was the frontal lobe bleed. I was just decelerating upside down, using my head as a brake, which isn't good for you.'
He added: 'Mindy [his wife], was told by the doctors that a frontal brain lobe injury would possibly lead to me having a greater propensity for obsessive compulsion and depression and paranoia.
'Mindy was like, 'You didn't meet him before the crash, did you?' which is quite funny to be fair. I think I did suffer a bit, I suffered all of those things to a degree.
'Some of them were really weird moments and I still get an echo of it.
'I remember having been institutionalized for a really long time in hospitals and in recovery... I would be coming into London to do something.
'I would open the wardrobe door and just look at all the shirts and just trying to work out.. it was too much. I found choice really difficult for quite a long time.'
He continued: 'Feeling your emotions derailed or interfered with because of a neurochemical imbalance, it's just chemicals and electricity.
'I was walking across the drive of my house and I felt this sudden welling, this surge of love in my chest and I thought, "What's that?"
'Eventually I identified it, I had walked past my old Land Rover, which I do love but only because I quite like it, but it had just triggered this absolutely... I thought "Blimey". It made me think.
'If emotions can be that profoundly affected by what was just a mix-up up of chemicals and electricity in my head, then I am more aware of things.
'Now, I don't listen to my emotions too closely if I am very, very tired or if I have had a big night out with the boys the night before.
'If I drink red wine I do not tune in to see what I think about anything. It's irrelevant for a day. Those are the rules.
'I was angry for a while, Anger is a problem when recovering from a brain injury. I wanted a T-shirt that said on the front, "I am OK, stop asking" and on the back, "I am still poorly, you know".'

It was mentioned in one article that their younger daughter, now 22, isn't at home anymore. I wonder if this was a case of keeping things going till both daughters had left.

Edited to add - watch for the journo scum turning up on May's doorstep. They like doing that with him being city based and I suspect he might not be impressed with them.