James Mays Things You Need to Know - Series 2 - Episode 2

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James Daniel May was the British television presenter and award-winning journalist known for co-presenting Top Gear from 2003 until 2015 aslope co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, replacing Series ane presenter Jason Dawe, and actualization in 175 of the 186 episodes produced during his tenure on the show. He had previously presented the show for Series 41 of the original format, replacing Clarkson, although was relegated to a print-just role from the 2d one-half of 1999 until his initial firing in late 2002. He also wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph'southward motoring section.

On Acme Gear, his nickname was "Captain Slow", due to his 'careful', relaxed driving way. He too earned the nickname "Captain Sense of Direction", due to the fact that he always gets lost, always gets distracted by an irrelevant subject and always arrives late. In spite of this, he remains one of the show's about popular presenters. May became one of the very few people in the world to have taken a Bugatti Veyron to its meridian speed of 253.45 mph (407.xc km/h), precisely 1-third of the speed of sound at body of water level, and would afterward hit 259 mph in a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, both at Volkswagen's test facility at Ehra-Lessien. Due to perceived copyright restrictions, his nickname was modified to "Mr. Slowly" for the earlier series of Top Gear's spiritual successor, The Thousand Tour.

May and Clarkson, together with an Icelandic support crew, were the offset e'er people to reach the 1996 Magnetic North Pole in an motorcar (a modified Toyota Hilux). The expedition was circulate in a Top Gear special on BBC Two on 25 July 2007. Clarkson described May every bit existence "the outset person to go to the North Pole who didn't want to exist there."

Backstory

James May was born in Bristol on xvi January, 1963 in a family of iv children. He attended Caerleon Endowed Junior School in Newport, and spent his teenage years in South Yorkshire where he attended Oakwood Comprehensive School in Rotherham. He was likewise a choir boy at Whiston Parish Church. During the early 1980s, May worked as a sub-editor for The Engineer and Autocar magazines, the latter of which he was later sacked from.

James May's message.

At the end of 1992, for Autocar's annual "Road Test Yearbook" supplement, May encoded a hidden message from each review's initial dropped cap. Each spread contained within the supplement featured four reviews and afterwards existence tasked with putting the supplement together, which "was extremely wearisome and took several months", he rewrote the first sentence of each review so that the first letters would spell "So, y'all remember it'due south actually skillful, yeah? Y'all should attempt making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse."

He after wrote for several publications, including a regular column chosen 'England Made Me' in Car magazine, a post from which he was later fired from, equally well as a weekly cavalcade in The Daily Telegraph. These were later compiled into a book titled May On Motors , which is a collection of his published articles, and co-authored Oz and James'due south Big Wine Run a risk, based on the Boob tube serial of the aforementioned proper name.

He also wrote the afterword to Long Lane with Turnings, published in September 2006, the final book by renowned motoring writer L.J.M. Setright. In the same month he co-presented a tribute to Raymond Baxter. A second collection of May's articles, entitled Notes From The Hard Shoulder , was published on the 26th of April, 2007. James May's 20th Century, a book to accompany the television serial of the aforementioned name, was published later that year on the 6th of September.

In August 2006, it was revealed that May had contributed to the online motoring humour magazine Sniff Petrol, founded past so-producer of the testify Richard Porter.

Idiot box Appearances and Career

James May on Channel 5's "The Car Show".

His past television credits include presenting The Car Testify on Channel 5 in 1998, narrating an eight role BBC One series called Road Rage School, and co-hosting the ITV1 coverage of the 2006 London Boat Prove.

He also wrote and presented a Christmas special called 'James May'south Top Toys' for BBC One, where May explored the toys of his childhood. This list was followed up the next yr past a sequel of sorts, broadcast on BBC Two, entitled 'James May: My Sister's Top Toys', this time attempting to investigate the gender divide of toy entreatment. In belatedly 2006, the BBC broadcast 'Oz and James's Big Wine Hazard', a series in which May, a committed bitter drinker, travelled around France with vino expert Oz Clarke. A second series was transmitted in late 2007, this time with May and Clark in the Californian vino country, and was followed past a third series in 2009 called 'Oz and James Drinkable to Britain'.

He has also presented a documentary for Heaven about sharks called 'Inside Killer Sharks', and a series looking at inventions and discoveries during the twentieth century, entitled 'James May'due south 20th Century'.

In late 2008, the BBC circulate 'James May's Big Ideas', a three-role serial in which May traveled effectually the globe in search of implementations for concepts widely considered science fiction.

In June 2009 May presented a documentary on BBC Two called 'James May on the Moon', commemorating 40 years since man beginning landed on the moon. This was followed past some other documentary on BBC Iv called 'James May at the Edge of Space', where May was flown to the edge of space (seventy,000 ft) in a Lockheed U-2 spy airplane. Highlights of the footage from the preparation for the flight, and the flight itself was used in 'James May on The Moon', but was shown fully in this programme. This made him the highest flying person, along with the airplane pilot, at that fourth dimension, after the crew of the International Space Station.

In 2010, May was the host of a show named "James May's Toy Stories". In the testify, he went to small-scale towns across Britain and tried to break toy related world records. In the start episode for example, he congenital a house out of iii,000,000 Lego bricks.

On November 13, 2020, his new serial, James May: Oh Melt!, premiered on Amazon Prime number. The premise as stated by May is "You don't need to be a brilliant cook to make delicious food" that would not have "the usual television cooking format trickery".

Tiptop Gear

James May working on Height Gear in 1999, exam driving the then-new Mazda MX-v.

James May was originally considered past producer Jon Bentley in the early on 1990s, and shot a screen-test with a Caterham. However, despite Bentley'south insistence on hiring him for the function, his superiors deemed him too similar to Jeremy Clarkson, in the sense that he was a 'posh sounding immature bloke'. As a result, May wouldn't be hired by the evidence until Clarkson's sudden departure following the conclusion of Series xl at the cease of 1998.

He outset co-presented Top Gear in 1999 for its 41st series, and was due to retain his office thereafter, just alongside Julia Bradbury, who he frequently presented with at the time, was replaced by Kate Apprehensive from Serial 42 onwards. May remained as an occasional writer for Top Gear Mag from 2000 to 2002, and was briefly fired, before rejoining the evidence in 2003 for the second series of the relaunched format, where he earned the nickname "Captain Slow" attributable to his "careful" driving style.

Afterward reaching the N Pole in a modified Toyota Hilux alongside co-host Jeremy Clarkson, much to May's chagrin, Clarkson would remark that "[May] will exist the first person at the North Pole who didn't want to be there". That same yr, May would also be one of the first people to bulldoze beyond the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Republic of botswana. In Series xvi May accidentally savage and hit the back of his head on a rock whilst in a desert in Syria, during filming for the Middle East Special. He would be taken to infirmary due to a bad concussion, leaving Hammond and Clarkson to continue their challenge lonely, although at 1 point they received news that May was recovering well.

In 2015, May declined to renew his Superlative Gear contract with the BBC, quitting the show he had worked on since 2003 following lead presenter Clarkson'southward dismissal. Boyfriend presenter Richard Hammond besides quit the show.

During his fourth dimension as presenter, he coined the phrase 'Oh, erect!' which to some extent became his catchphrase.

Departure and legacy

With its product otherwise put in jeopardy, May would be the last of the 2002-era presenters to remain with the BBC in order to terminate production on the second series of James May'southward Cars of the People, a six-part Top Gear spinoff.

He would sign a contract with Amazon in 2015 in society to star in spiritual successor The Grand Bout, a part he maintains as of 2020.

Cast of Top Gear
Present Cast	Chris Harris | Freddie Flintoff | Paddy McGuinness | The Stig
Former Cast (2002 format)	Sabine Schmitz | Eddie Jordan | Rory Reid | Matt LeBlanc | Chris Evans | James May | Richard Hammond | Jeremy Clarkson | Ben Collins | Acme Gear Stunt Man | Top Gear Dog | Perry McCarthy | Jason Dawe
Sometime Cast (1977 format)	Andy Wilman | Jason Barlow | Tiff Needell | Vicki Butler-Henderson | Adrian Simpson | Quentin Willson | Kate Humble | Steve Drupe | Julia Bradbury | Brendan Coogan | Tony Bricklayer | Michele Newman | Jon Bentley | Chris Goffey | Janet Trewin | Nicky Play tricks | Steve Lee | William Woollard | Sue Baker | Beki Adam | Tom Boswell | Vic Allan | Frank Folio | Peter Burgess | Bob Friend | Judith Jackson | Stewart Woodcock | Noel Edmonds | Mike Dornan | Gill Pyrah | Barrie Gill | Angela Rippon | Presenters with less than five appearances

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