Former Top Gear boss reveals BBC ‘wanted to split up presenting trio’

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May hosted Top Gear for more than a decade (Picture: BBC)A BBC executive reportedly told Top Gear producers to replace one of their hosts because their line-up was ‘too middle-aged and white’.Hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, the British motoring show became one of the BBC’s most commercially successful programmes in history.After being relaunched in 2002, the series reached an estimated 350 million viewers wor