James May
James May was born in Bristol, England, United Kingdom on January 16th, 1963 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 61, James May biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter and journalist.
He is best known as a co-presenter of Top Gear, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, from 2003 to 2015.
As of 2016, he is a producer for Top Gear Studios (founded July 2015) and is also a co-presenter in the Amazon Video series The Grand Tour for Amazon Video, alongside his current Top Gear colleagues Clarkson and Hammond, as well as Top Gear's former producer Andy Wilman. May has also produced other programs on topics including science and technology, toys, wine culture, and the plight of manlines in modern times.
From 2003 to 2011, he wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph's motoring section.
Early life
James Daniel May was born in Bristol, the son of aluminium factory boss James May and his partner Kathleen. He was one of four children; he has two sisters and a brother. May attended Caerleon Endowed Junior School in Newport. He spent his teenage years in South Yorkshire, where he attended Oakwood Comprehensive School in Rotherham and was a choirboy at Whiston Parish Church.
May studied music at Pendle College, Lancaster University, where he learned to play the flute and piano. May spent a short time in the civil service after graduating and worked as a records officer at a hospital in Chelsea.
Personal life
May lives in Hammersmith, West London, with art critic Sarah Frater, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2000. Lancaster University, where he had previously studied music, gave May an honorary doctorate in July 2010. He holds a Doctor of Letters degree.
May was one of 200 public figures signatories to a letter sent to The Guardian in August 2014, expressing their apprehension that Scotland would vote against independence from the United Kingdom in September's referendum on independence.
In June 2016, he favoured Remain in the EU referendum. May has referred to his political leanings as "liberal."
May purchased half of a pub in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, that dates from the early 1800s and is a Grade II listed historic site.
May has owned numerous vehicles, including a 2005 Saab 9-5 Aero, Bentley T2 Dawn, Triumph 2000, Triumph 4.0, Ferrari P6, Triumph 2000, Ferrari P6, Jaguar XJS, 1966 Rolls-Royce Corniche, Lamborgh, 1971 Rolls-Royce Corniche, Ferrari Datsun, 1963 Porsche Classic Vogue, 1954 Ferrari Boxster S (which he says is the first car he has ever owned new), including a 1995 Ferrari Falcon 164,
May owns a 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera S facelift, a 2017 BMW Model S100D, and a 2015 Ferrari Mirai, a 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale that he ordered following his retirement from Top Gear and the VW Beach Buggy Boys. He commutes with a Brompton folding bicycle. On his second attempt, he passed his driving test and defended it by saying, "All the best people pass the second time."
May obtained a light aircraft pilot's license in October 2006 after training at White Waltham Airfield. He has owned a Luscombe 8A Silvaire, a Cessna A185E Skywagon, and an American Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon, coded G-OCOK, which refers to a common term related to him.
Journalism career
May served as a sub-editor for The Engineer and later Autocar magazine, from which he was suspended for a prank in the early 1980s. Since writing for numerous publications, including the regular column in England Made Me in Car Magazine, articles for Top Gear magazine, and a weekly column in The Daily Telegraph, he has written for several publications, including the regular column England Made Me in Car Magazine.
He has written May on Motors (2006), a collection of his published papers, as well as co-authored Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure (2006), based on the television series of the same name. He wrote the afterword to Long Lane with Turnings, the last book by motoring writer L. J. Setright. He co-presented a tribute to Raymond Baxter in the same month. Notes from the Hard Shoulder and James May's twentieth century, a book that came with the television series of the same name, was published in 2007.
May confessed to being banned from Autocar magazine in 1992 after assembling an acrostic in a single issue in an interview with Richard Allinson on BBC Radio 2. The magazine's "Road Test Yearbook" supplement was released at the end of the year. Four reviews were published on each spread, and each was launched with a large red letter (known in typography as a pioneer). May's job was to put the whole supplement together.
May wrote each review in such a way that the initials on the first four spreads read "ROAD," "EST," "YEAR," and "BOOK" in order to relieve the tedium. The subsequent spreads seemed to have random letters beginning with "SOYO" and "UTHI"; when punctuated these letters, they immediately sent a note: "So you think it's really good, yeah?" Make the bloody stuff up; it's a real pain in the arse."
Television career
His television appearances include presenting Driven on Channel 4, narrating an eight-part BBC One series called Road Rage School, and co-hosting the 2006 London Boat Show. Top Toys, by James May, was also a Christmas special (for BBC One). Top Toys, James May: My Sisters' Top Toys attempted to look at the gender of the toy appeal. May successfully defeated Ramsay in episode 3 of Gordon Ramsay's The F Word, by eating bull penis and rotten shark, as well as his fish pie dish.
During an interview in 2000, May said that the show's original creators had to replace him with May, but that they were dissatisfied with May, but that the entire program was suspended the following year. Clarkson says May's firing in 2000 caused him to abandon alcoholism for a brief period of time. Clarkson managed to convince Andrew Wilman to rehire him to replace Jason Dawe following the show's relaunch in 2002. He appeared on Top Gear's second series in 2003, where he earned the name "Captain Slow" due to his careful driving style. Despite this sobriquet, he has done some thrilling driving, first in the Veyron's newer 16.4 Super Sport version that hit the top speed of 253 mph (407 km/h) in 2005, then at 259.11 mph (417 km/h) in 2010. He also tested the Bugatti Veyron against the Pagani Zonda F in an earlier episode.
May, along with co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson and an Icelandic support staff, traveled by car to the magnetic North Pole in 2007, using a modified Toyota Hilux. He was the first person to go there "who didn't want to be there," Clarkson said. He also drove a modified Toyota Hilux up the side of Eyjafjallajökull's erupting volcano.
May announced in April 2015 that he would not continue to host Top Gear as part of a new group of presenters following the BBC's decision not to renew Jeremy Clarkson's show on March 25, 2015.
May also wrote Inside Killer Sharks, a Sky TV documentary, and James May's twentieth century investigation into inventions. James May's 20th century flew in a Royal Air Force Typhoon at a speed of around 1320 mph (2124 km/h) for his television show. The BBC released Big Ideas, a three-part series in which May travelled around the globe in search of techniques that had traditionally considered science fiction in late 2008. He has also produced a film called James May's Man Lab. To Space & Back, a documentary about the impact of advances in space exploration on modern technology developed by Sky-Skan and The Franklin Institute, May narrated In 2013, May narrated To Space & Back, a documentary about the influence of advances in space exploration on modern technology.
On the Moon's 40th anniversary since a man first landed on the moon, James May on the Moon (BBC 2, 2009). This was followed by James May at the Edge of Space, where May was flown to the stratosphere (70,000 ft) in a US Air Force Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Highlights from the flight's preparations and the flight itself were used in James May on the Moon, but not in this program. After the crew of the International Space Station, he became one of the highest flying people, as well as the pilot.
May began in October 2009 with a 6-part TV series highlighting favorite toys from the past decade and how they can be used in the modern day. Airfix, Plasticine, Meccano, Scalextric, Lego, and Hornby were among the toys featured. May strives to push each toy to its limits in each show, as well as fulfilling several of his boyhood aspirations. May built a full-size house out of Lego at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey in August 2009. Legoland's efforts to relocate it to their theme park in September 2009 were put into question again in September 2009, when the plastic bricks were set to be donated to charity.
He revived the banked track at Brooklands using Scalextric technology, as well as an attempt at the world's longest working model railway along the Tarka Trail in North Devon, although the attempt was foiled due to parts of the track being stolen and vandals putting coins on the track, resulting in a short circuit. May also set the record in 2011 by arranging a competition between German model railroad enthusiasts and their British counterparts. The two teams will begin at opposite ends on a double-track mainline. This time, the venture was fruitful, with both teams successfully operating three trains the entire route.
James and his crew designed a massive toy glider that flew 22 miles (35 kilometers) from Devon to Lundy's island in December 2012.
May developed a life-size, fully functional motorcycle, and sidecar made entirely out of the construction toy Meccano. He was joined by Oz Clarke and completed a complete lap of the Isle of Man TT Course, a full 37+34 mile tour.
The BBC broadcast Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure, a series in which May, a committed bitter drinker, rode around France with wine specialist Oz Clarke, a traveler. In late 2007, a second series called Oz and Clarke in the Californian wine country was broadcast, this time with May and Clarke.
May hosted James May: Our Man in Japan in January 2020, and the 6-episode series was released on Amazon Prime Video, following May's journey from the north end of Japan to its south. May explores and partakes in many activities over the course of three months to truly understand the country, which has long captivated him. He is accompanied by a team of different translators and translators on the ride through major cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto.
Our Man in Italy, James May, is a travel documentary that follows a trip from Palermo to the Dolomites on a trip discovering the cuisine, food, and more.