Jeremy Clarkson finally clears up huge mystery about The Grand Tour

Jeremy Clarkson has seemingly cleared up a huge misconception about filming The Grand Tour.

The Clarkson’s Farm star, 64, returned to screens for his final stint with James May and Richard Hammond, 22 years after their first appeared on Top Gear together.

Fans were of course devastated as their Amazon Prime series reached an emotional end, but one had a pressing question – which left Jeremy ‘furious’.

Clearing up a behind-the-scenes mystery from filming the motoring show, Richard Osman revealed a conversation we had with Jeremy about clearing up any messes.

One viewer asked House of Games presenter Richard and his podcast co-host Marina Hyde how the crew cleaned up the mess from the bottom of a cliff after the final episode of The Grand Tour saw a VW Beetle launched off the edge.

‘I asked Jeremy Clarkson this question,’ Richard began on a recent episode of The Rest Is Entertainment.

‘He was furious to be asked it. He said, “We absolutely make it clear on the show, we are not interested in your call.”

‘If ever you push anything off anywhere on any TV program, people are like, “oh, I hope you cleared that up.” You think, yeah, of course we can, we’ve got a television program, we’ve got the law of the land. we don’t just go, “Come on, let’s just leave it at the bottom of the cliff, shall we? We’re The Grand Tour. We do whatever we want.”‘

Richard went on: ‘So he says, “I am not interested in answering this question in any way, but I will say, of course, it was cleared up.”

‘But that’s the point with all of these things, if a car goes off a cliff for whatever reason, someone eventually goes and clears it up.’

Marina added that big movie stunts can sometimes take ‘weeks to clear up’.

Richard went on: ‘And the joy of The Grand Tour is it looks like everything’s very casual, and it looks like they’re being crazy and they are, of course, and there’s a lot of fun being had.

‘But yeah, everything is cleared up. Jeremy says they probably turned it back into a car by now. He’s saying, you know, it is absolutely cleared up.

‘If there was any oil, that’s all been cleared up, every single thing you ever see on television, movies, the absolutely environmental protections are through the roof.

‘So, fun though it is to launch a VW Beetle off a cliff, there is three weeks of less fun, which is not being filmed afterwards.’

The scene in question saw the trio ‘in a world of trouble’ when Jeremy tried to ‘get rid’ of the red Volkswagen and things went ‘terribly wrong’.

Involving a dog, a broom and a brick, Jeremy and Richard watched their back-up car tumble off the cliff and crash into hundreds of pieces in a very dramatic clip.

‘That’s quite a big accident,’ Jeremy later laughed.

This comes after the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? presenter revealed another behind-the-scenes secret – that he was ‘mostly smashed’ during filming.

Speaking at a Q&A following a premiere screening of The Grand Tour: One For The Road, he said that he and his co-stars were ‘mostly smashed’ during filming but ‘hopefully nobody will notice’.

He also claimed that a third of a cargo plane was filled with beer, instead of camera equipment.

When asked about how much units of alcohol they drank per episode, Clarkson revealed: ‘I’ll let you into a little secret on that one.

‘We had a big cargo plane… to move all of the kit that we needed out to film a show like that, you’ve got 70 people on the crew, a lot of people, you’ve got to get the cars out there, the spare parts out there, the camera equipment, the sound equipment, the minicams, the drones, it was a hell of a lot, and we didn’t fill the plane.

‘So there was third of it was left – we thought, “Well what should we put on that?” Beer was the answer.

‘So we had a third of an Antonov of beer to get through on that one.’