James May Reckons Chris Evans' Top Gear Vomit Antics Were All An Act

If you’ve seen all the recent reports of Top Gear production issues and images of apparently vomiting presenters, you’d probably label the attempts to relaunch the show post-Clarkson as disastrous. But is it actually looking like too much of a train wreck to be believable?

That seems to be the opinion of recently departed TG presenter James May. When being interviewed on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ earlier this week and asked if all the alleged production issues were part of an “elaborate hoax”, May concurred, saying “that’s my theory, and to be brutally honest that’s what I’d do: I’d make out that it was all going terribly.”

Referring to the infamous shot of Chris Evans appearing to be car sick after riding shotgun with Sabine Schmitz, he said, “was he being sick? I look a lot more contorted when I’m sick.”

Like a lot of people, May is also keen for the revamped Top Gear series to succeed, despite being due to front a rival show on Amazon Prime with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. “I do think it’s important that it does well because the way I see it, and the reason why it’s good that we’ve kept separate, it means the viewers get two car shows, where there used to be one. And we have a credible rival, and we can mock him a bit, and that’s healthy.”

He declined to reveal anything about the Amazon Prime series, but if you’re desperate for a fix of Captain Slow, you can catch him on James May’s Cars Of The People, which continues on BBC Two this Sunday at 9pm.