The Grand Tour star says he’s ‘contemplating’ early retirement

James May well has explained he is “quietly contemplating” an early retirement.

The Grand Tour star will transform 60 in January up coming calendar year, and has recommended that retirement is “not far off”.

May possibly hosts the motoring-themed Key Movie sequence along with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. The trio previously identified fame on the BBC series Major Gear.

Talking to Radio Instances, May perhaps claimed that he was “scared of there being much more at the rear of me than in entrance of me”.

“A incredibly near close friend of mine died a handful of months ago,” reported the presenter. “He retired early, because he’d usually had this concern that his family members is not very extensive-lived, and he wanted to swap possessions for ordeals and information. That is what he commenced carrying out, but sad to say he obtained most cancers and it killed him.

“It was really attention-grabbing thinking about that after he’d gone because it can take a selected sum of courage to say, ‘No, I do not want to telegraph my achievement and my sophistication. I basically want to have a wonderful life and ponder the thriller and ponder of God’s generation.’”

He was then requested wether he prepared to retire and promote his cars and trucks.

“It’s a thing I’m quietly thinking about, and I suspect it’s not much off,” he responded.

Could can future be seen hosting the six-element unscripted vacation collection Our Gentleman in Italy on Prime Movie.