Review
'IT ALL GOES OFF LIKE A GRENADE'
The Grand Tour’s second episode swaps motors for mortars… plus Jeremy manages to save the Queen
Jeremy, James and Richard use guns, grenades and knives to fight in the Middle East
THE Grand Tour swapped motors for mortars in its second episode as it blasted its way through a string of explosive and bloodthirsty scenes which saw Jeremy Clarkson save The Queen.
Even before yesterday’s show from South Africa, insiders warned that hosts Jeremy, Richard Hammond and James May had forgotten to put any cars in it.
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Instead, the focus was firmly on the part-time petrolheads being as outrageous as possible — and using their arsenal of weapons to blow a massive hole in their £160million Amazon Prime budget in the process.
The show started with a bang as Jeremy made South African President Jacob Zuma his first target for some verbals.
Joining in with a running joke among locals, the presenter, 56, fluffed his numbers as he addressed the audience, a dig at Zuma doing the same at his ruling ANC Party’s national meeting last year.
When Richard, 46, asks Jezza how much a £1.8million Aston Martin 7L V12 Vulcan costs in South African rand, he replied: “Ten hundred and thirty million and a million.”
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Peppered by bullets in Hollywood ending.
Discussing downforce on supercars Jeremy said: “I don’t like having to trust anything I can’t see . . . like North Korea.”
Despite safari being popular in South Africa, the elephant in the room also came under fire.
After Charlize Theron becomes the latest would-be celebrity guest to be “killed off”, Jeremy found time to mention jailed paralympian Oscar Pistorius, saying: “There’s only two globally famous South Africans, one’s now in a lion and the other is in prison.”
Then, with only a whiff of the AM-RB 001 and Bugatti Chiron for any car fans watching, they headed to an SAS training camp in Jordan, where they battled “terrorists” to save a fake Queen from a hijacked plane.
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At one point Jeremy gets stuck in a window and complains the terrorists were “doing things” to him from behind.
And as the jokes get even more Carry On, a wailing Jeremy then moans “it’s uncomfortable”, before Richard replies: “It’s probably because you’re so tense.”
The trio eventually remember to hop into another motor, if only to have a pop at the Queen.
As they opted for an Audi getaway car Jeremy quipped to Her Majesty: “You’ll like it. It’s German”.
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James, 53, added: “Like you are,” before he shot her in the back of the head after declaring he didn’t like the Royal Family.
Jeremy gave the episode its ultimate Hollywood ending, being peppered by bullets in a bid to, once again, rescue the Queen — who had by this point come back to life.
Let’s see if this secures him a knighthood.
RATING: ★★★★★
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