Clarkson, Hammond and Could have simply made £6 million every in main enterprise transfer

The trio behind The Grand Tour is likely to be saying goodbye to their manufacturing firm, however they’re every saying hey to an enormous payday.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James Could have formally referred to as time on their joint agency, W. Chump & Sons, a decade after launching it.

The presenters and their producer Andy Wilman established the manufacturing firm in 2015 shortly after Clarkson was given the boot by the BBC.

After the farm proprietor, 65, was sacked for punching a producer, he and his High Gear co-stars Hammond and Could migrated to Amazon Prime Video.

Persevering with their car-related TV content material, they teamed up with the streaming platform to create The Grand Tour.

The hit sequence was produced through their firm W. Chump & Sons, which additionally churned out its online game spin-off and co-founded the motoring platform DriveTribe.

In June, it was revealed that the agency was ‘voluntary winding up’ after ten-years in operation.

Clarkson, Hammond, Could and Wilman’s utility was made to Firms Home, the official authorities physique that approves startups and new enterprise ventures in addition to the dissolution of firms.

The foursome had been every listed as ‘administrators’ of W. Chump & Sons.

It marked the top of an period for followers, who’ve intently adopted Clarkson, Hammond and Could’s TV work for the final 23 years.

Now, documents filed at Firms Home on Monday (1 September) have revealed what funds every of the fellas are strolling away with.

W. Chump & Sons shut down with £24,087,100 on the books, that means Clarkson, Hammond, Could and Wilman may now every pocket about £6million.

Could beforehand revealed why he thought his working relationship along with his longtime co-stars had run its course, whereas saying they had been every very completely happy to exit on a excessive.

The 62-year-old told UNILAD: “I believe folks would solely actually like us doing automobiles, regardless of what some folks say – ‘Oh, I believe you need to all go off and do cooking or you need to all go and do a podcast about nothing’.

“However I don’t assume so. I believe we must always let it lie, what we did.”

Nevertheless, Could did not fully rule out the prospect of reuniting with Clarkson and Hammond sooner or later.

“I am certain there will likely be one thing,” he added. “But it surely will not be as huge as [The Grand Tour] and I don’t want it to be. I’ve performed that. I am fairly open minded but.

“To be trustworthy, I do not know if anyone desires me,” Could then joked.

Thomas Holland, James Engelsman and Francis Bourgeois are reportedly set to entrance a brand new sequence of The Grand Tour.