James May has quit Top Gear because 'It just wouldn't work without Jeremy Clarkson'
James May will not return to Top Gear without Jeremy Clarkson.
The show's co-host - whose contract ran out in March after the scandal that saw Clarkson fired for punching a producer - has now revealed that he has no plans to return to the show because it 'just wouldn't work'."
The motoring presenter told the Guardian: "Me and Hammond with a surrogate Jeremy is a non-starter, it just wouldn’t work. That would be lame, or ‘awks’ as young people say.
"It has to be the three of us. You can’t just put a surrogate Jeremy in and expect it to carry on. It would be forced. I don’t believe they would be stupid enough to try that.
"It doesn’t mean I won’t go back, we may all go back in the future. It might just be we have a break from it. I don’t know.”
It was recently revealed that Jeremy Clarkson's final scenes in Top Gear will be screened later this year, according to the boss of BBC2.