The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond admits rows with co-stars are ‘only for the cameras as that’s what people want to see’

RICHARD Hammond has confessed the spats fans see on The Grand Tour are simply for show.

While there may be a little aggro between the trio of Amazon Prime hosts, who have worked together on the show since 2015 and on Top Gear for 13 years previous, he insisted there's no bad blood.

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Richard - along with Jeremy Clarkson and James May will soon be back on the streaming service with their new episode, set in Madagascar, called The Grand Tour: A Massive Hunt.

Then follows a coronavirus special, set in Scotland, to air in 2021.

In A Massive Hunt, the 50-year-old often trails behind show anchor Jeremy, 60, due to his Ford Focus RS repeatedly requiring repairs.

As tensions begin to creep up, Richard was quick to deny they were one hundred per cent genuine.

He told Express.co.uk when asked if the rows were real: "No, ‘cause the bickering is part of the show.

"We’re asked so often, ‘what happens when the cameras aren’t rolling?’

"They roll, and if something funny happens or there’s an argument or an accident, it goes in."

He added to the website: "It’s why there’s very few blooper reels for the show, because that is the show.

“The only behind the scenes stuff is the business of making the show, and no one wants to watch that so much.

"No, God no, we wouldn’t argue off camera because we’d roll the cameras and argue on camera.

"That’s what people want to see."

Meanwhile, the dad of two recently opened up on another hell-raising moment on the upcoming Madagascar show, to be aired on December 18 - and said he found the trip to be one of the worst in the world.

He said ahead of the new Grand Tour series "We thought this was going to be like the south of France with better weather.

"Then as we got to Madagascar it quickly became apparent that the road was very rough.

"We’d been warned but I thought, ‘Yeah, yeah, I live in Herefordshire and we have rough roads, so I’m used to that’.

"It turned out to be hellish. We’ve driven some of the very worst roads, in terms of finish, in the world, but this was so bad you couldn’t even call it a road. We were on the Route Nationale, that’s the main road, the equivalent of the A40. But it was just incredible."