THE Grand Tour fans noticed a subtle nod to a presenter’s past in the star’s final episode.
Viewers of the Prime Video motoring show were left devastated as The Grand Tour marked the end of an era.
Stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have officially bowed out of the long-running programme.
It comes as observant fans spotted a discrete throwback in the trio’s final episode.
Writing in an online forum, one noted: “James wore his original Botswana sunglasses for the final scene.”
Another agreed, as they penned: “Lots of details and subtle references for long time fans in this last one.”
While a third commented: “Pretty cool he still has them. I lose sunglasses on a monthly basis.”
The Grand Tour launched following its stars’ departure from BBC‘s Top Gear in 2015.
Altogether, they helmed 46 episodes of the Prime Video show – with their finale being the sole episode of series 6.
However, it has previously been reported The Grand Tour will return with an all new line-up.
Jeremy – who also stars in Clarkson’s Farm for the streamer – revealed the “real” reason behind the trio’s exit.
The 64-year-old penned in The Sunday Times: “After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I’m packing it in because I’m too old and too fat to get into the cars I like and not interested in driving those I don’t.”
Speaking at a screening for the trio’s final Grand Tour episode, Jeremy elaborated: “It gets you tonight, it is the end. It didn’t at the end of filming.
“We said three years ago we would do one more then end it.
“We had driven cars higher and faster than anyone else so we did wonder what else we could do with a car.
“We had run out of places to go, we had run out of things to do. And I had got fat.”
The group’s final scenes also hit home for viewers, as one wrote online: “I watched the first and last specials back to back for my watch party.
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The Grand Tour launched on Prime Video in 2016 and quickly became one of the streamer’s biggest hits as hosts Jeremy, 63, James, 60, and Richard, 52, felt it was time they move on from Top Gear hit the road.
They have now brought five epic series of motoring adventures to the small screen, each taking place in different locations and even featuring celebrity guests.
Series 1
Series 2
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Series 5
“I cried during both because I knew what I was watching.
“I invited friends and family and no one showed up, but I think it made it more special for me.”
A fellow fan agreed, commenting: “It was an emotional end. I’ve been watch TG since 2008, and it sucks it’s done.”
The Grand Tour is streaming on Prime Video.
ANTHONY JOSHUA has warned Daniel Dubois he is willing to die in the ring.
The Watford warrior has dumped the cautious approach that saw him trying to avoid danger.
Under trainer Ben Davison, AJ 2.0 is bullish, spiteful and ruthless.
And he is once again ready to go to the darkest corners to become a three-time world heavyweight champion by defeating IBF king Dubois at Wembley on Saturday.
Joshua insisted: “He’s fighting someone who is willing to die in there — who wants to give it everything to be victorious.
“It takes more than being strong to be a champion and to be a complete fighter.
“It’s good, of course, but I truly believe from what I’ve studied, read and what great people who have come before me have said, it takes more than being a physical specimen.
“It’s a good attribute but when you come across someone who is willing to take that from you, you’ve given them your best shot and they are able to take it, that’s when you figure out what it takes to be a champion.
“That’s what I’ve done. I’ve been to the well.”
Joshua risked everything in his first Wembley win, over Wladimir Klitschko in 2017 — climbing off the deck in the fifth round and barely recovering until the eighth.
He’s fighting someone who is willing to die in there — who wants to give it everything to be victorious.
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But the 2019 shock loss to Andy Ruiz, where he was dropped four times and lost his world crowns for the first time, led Joshua to a drastic change in fighting style and mindset.
In the cautious rematch win over Mexican Ruiz, the prolonged stoppage of Kubrat Pulev, the painful points losses to Oleksandr Usyk and the two tedious rebuild wins, he boxed at range and avoided danger.
But since linking up with trainer Davison, the former Olympic king has made a bloody mess of Otto Wallin and destroyed Francis Ngannou, the MMA specialist who deserved a points decision against Tyson Fury four months earlier.
It was Usyk who dethroned Joshua as world heavyweight champ for the second time in September 2021.
Eleven months later, the Ukrainian genius had too much for AJ again — and the Englishman had a bizarre post-fight strop, throwing the championship belts to the floor and arguing with his team.
Tearful Joshua, 34, later apologised for what he saw as letting down the nation.
Filling Wembley, once again, with a record-breaking 96,000 fans paying to watch the all-English clash should feel like redemption.
Dubois, 27, won the interim IBF belt by stopping Filip Hrgovic in June. The Londoner became full champ when Usyk vacated the crown.
But Joshua joked that another nightmare evening could spark an even more fearsome tantrum that will take him tearing through the VIP seats and up into the Gods.
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He joked: “If I f***ing lose I’ll get even worse . . . I’ll be up in the stadium tearing the place up!
“The fans are there. Some want to see me there so I need to do a job.
“It has been a blessing and I don’t take it for granted. I’ve given Dan the respect he deserves in terms of my preparation.
“I’ve given the 96,000 fans the respect by preparing myself to compete and travelling around the world to find coaches and a home where I can improve.
“I just need to do it on Saturday night now. I just want to make sure everyone who comes to support me leaves there feeling like ‘we did it’.”
As usual there is some focus on accusations of Saudi Arabia using high-level sport to wash their reputation as a dictatorship.
But Joshua, like most of the other working-class lads in the most brutal business of all, is more concerned with laundering dirty kit in the aftermath of his latest battle.
He grinned: “You know what’s crazy, on Sunday morning you wake up and it’s the same. Your bills still come out of your account, you’ve got to do your washing.
“I was in Saudi in the Airbnb, after the Francis Ngannou fight.
“I was just there ironing and washing after the Ngannou fight. It’s mad. The only difference is that it hurts losing.”
A mother-of-12 and her huge family is on the run from police after “one of the worst street fights ever seen”.
The brawl in Birmingham has led to reports of Ellen Sweeney, 39, Thomas Sweeney, 43, and Thomas Sweeney junior, 18, fleeing to the Republic of Ireland.
The family members have twice failed to appear at court in relation to the disorder in the early hours of July 15 last year.
After the second no-show in a fortnight on Tuesday, a judge deemed them as “cowards” whilst sentencing the absentees who have all previously pled guilty to violent disorder charges.
Last year, the Sweeneys, David Mongan, 18, and at least four other relatives were involved in the drunken attack outside of Glamourous nightclub in the Gay Village district.
One victim was left with a laceration to the chest after being cut with a glass bottle, whilst another who suffered blows to the head has since experienced seizures.
Another was repeatedly punched and stamped whilst on the ground until he was knocked unconscious.
Despite the three attackers fleeing before their sentencing, Mongan, of Frederick Road, Stechford, was jailed for three years.
Whilst appearing at Birmingham Crown Court, Mongan admitted violent disorder and three separate shoplifting offences.
During sentencing, Judge Dean Kershaw said: “You are all cowards, complete and utter cowards, engaging in violence against people when they were intoxicated and drunk.
“Using that mob culture to attack people in that way, this is one of the worst violent disorders in this city with multiple people being attacked, assaulted, kicked in the body and kicked in the head.”
The court heard from prosecutor Alura Bather who explained how the violence erupted after Thomas senior got into a verbal spat with another individual.
Bather said that the spoken altercation on Hurst Street then turned “physically aggressive”.
Whilst Senior made claims to being racially abused, no further proof was brought forward to strengthen these claims.
Other evidence was presented, including CCTV of Thomas Jr and Mongan chasing the male through the Gay Village.
The latter then proceeded to knock him to the floor and was counted to have delivered 21 punches and 14 kicks to the victim.
He could even be seen punching a second member of the public who attempted to stop the violence.
Thomas senior then managed to join in whilst Ellen Sweeney seemingly attempted to protect the man from her own family before she was dragged away.
The prosecutor continued to explain how Ellen Sweeney then entered into a verbal dispute with another woman who Ellen punched and called a “w***e”.
Violent scenes were exasperated with the woman’s friend being glassed across her chest by one of the defendants’ family members.
Whilst another man who appeared to be sat on a large concrete block, not involved with the fighting, was punched to the floor as well.
Thomas Jr then proceeded to lash out at a taxi driver whilst Ellen Sweeney could be seen throwing further punches at someone else.
Continuing their chase, the family did not let up despite the female victims attempting to flee on foot and failing to flag down a bin lorry driver.
The pursuit continued with Mongan punching and kicking one of the women until the victim was on the floor.
Police arrested some of the individuals involved once they arrived at the scene soon after.
After claiming Thomas Jr was due to get married, the Sweeney family members were bailed at a previous hearing to an address in Croydon, London.
The Metropolitan Police have blamed new staff and bail books not being regularly checked as reasons for their absence and breach of bail until August 21 going unnoticed.
Whilst earlier enquiries were made to the Croydon address, police attended again at 2am on the morning of their sentencing and found the lights still on and a completely empty property.
The court were then informed how Ellen Sweeney had been the family’s main point of contact and had even phoned her solicitors the previous day to suggest she had got the court date wrong and taken the family to Scotland.
Alarm bells were only raised after an investigation into Ellen Sweeney’s phone showed a location in the Republic of Ireland.
Judge Kershaw said: “It’s all nonsense. She’s in Ireland ringing on the 29th saying she thought it (the court date) was tomorrow.
“What is she going to do swim across The Channel? This is just a ruse. I warned them.”
He then added that Interpol and the Irish Authorities would be involved.
Meanwhile, Mongan was remanded in custody and has since been sentenced to three years and four months for shoplifting more than £8,500-worth of goods which he carried out with others.
Mongan’s defence counsel, Philip Brunt, described him as “immature” and “intoxicated” during the violent street attack.
Thomas Jr was sentenced to two years and four months detention, with Morgan Pirone mitigating that his actions were out of character.
After his defence counsel, Jordan Warren, made claims that Thomas Sr has suffered from a “significant amount of trauma”, the father received two years and ten months.
The mother-of-12, Ellen Sweeney received one year and 11 months after her defence, Jas Dhaliwal, suggested she was “extremely ashamed”.
Judge Kershaw considered offering Ellen a suspended sentence but feared she would not comply with community-based punishment after she failed to appear in court.
Metropolitan police have been approached for comment in regard to the breach of bail conditions going unnoticed until August 21.