Pneumonia-hit star sees the funny side
Reporter JEREMY Clarkson has joked that James May is the “only functioning member” of the Grand Tour team left after he was admitted to hospital for pneumonia.
The driving show’s host, 57, fell ill during a family holiday in Majorca and was admitted to hospital on Friday.
His fellow presenter Richard Hammond is still recovering from a car accident in June - leaving May as the one host with nothing wrong.
Clarkson posted a picture on Instagram showing May with his hair standing on end, and quipped: “The only functioning member of the Grand Tour team right now. “God help us.” Earlier the star shared a snap of tubes in his arm and his hospital identity tags around his wrist, writing: “Not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday.”
A spokesperson for The Grand Tour said: “Jeremy Clarkson was admitted to hospital on Friday morning during a family holiday in Spain and is being treated for pneumonia.”
He had planned to return to work after his holiday.
In a message on Twitter, the exTop Gear host told friend Jemima Goldsmith that he was “in a wheelchair, connected up to tubes, in a hospital”.
The hospital incident comes two months after Hammond, 47, was airlifted to hospital when his car crashed and burst into flames while filming The Grand Tour in Switzerland.