After hosting Top Gear for some time alongside Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson, James May has now said that he thinks new host Chris Evans is "ballsy" for continuing the series without the original team.
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Speaking to the Radio Times May tackled the rumours of trouble with the new version of the show, suggesting that the comeback will be great.
He said: "I'd like to see Chris's Top Gear do well. It's a ballsy call to continue it. I wouldn't want to be the one presenting it when we'd just finished, but there must be a way of reinventing it.
"We always said it would survive beyond us. I think the stories about Chris's version being in trouble might be an elaborate hoax, before it explodes onto our screens in brilliance."
May also teased his new show with Clarkson and Hammond, coming to Amazon later this year.
"The content is completely different. People are saying, 'Now you're with Amazon, you can swear and punch each other in the face'. But why would we want to do that? It would be rubbish."
He also addressed rumours surrounding Clarkson's mental health and alleged alcoholism: "He's deranged, but that's not the same thing. There's nothing wrong with him. He's fat, obviously, and rather ugly. But those aren't illnesses, merely misfortunes."
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