The Grand Tour, meanwhile, has spent the past two-and-a-bit years bulldozing its way across continents, proudly racking up air miles and hoisting its hosts aloft like minor royalty in a sedan chair. Should we be surprised? Schoolboy sniggering and colonial-style bantz has long been the trio’s stock-in-trade. Meanwhile, The Weather Girls’ It’s Raining Men plays on the stereo. Later on Hammond declares that the vehicle would be best paired with “some nice chaps, suede, but ventilated at the back”.
The trio then stand around pondering the meaning of LGBT – “what is it – lesbian, bacon, transgender?” asks Clarkson. Clarkson is given a Jeep Wrangler to drive, which May notes is “a very popular car with the gay community”. Young’s complaint lies with an episode in which Clarkson and his underlings, Richard Hammond and James May, travel across Colombia under the pretext of photographing wildlife. I want Amazon Prime and the producers of Grand Tour to meet young LGBT who want to kill themselves because of shaming and laughter and normalising of shaming homophobic narratives.”
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But order has been restored with a fresh storm about homophobic remarks aired during the new series of The Grand Tour, highlighted on Twitter by the singer Will Young. The days of him punching a producer, prompting his ejection from the BBC, or straining diplomatic relations in Argentina seem so long ago, it’s enough to make one nostalgic. I t’s been a while since Jeremy Clarkson caused an upset.
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