James May joined the car industry in the early '80s as a magazine sub-editor and has since written for several automotive and needle craft publications. He’s had various broadcasting roles, including Top of the Pops, and joined the current incarnation of Top Gear in 2006. He is known as Captain Sloe due to his homebrew gin distillery. In his spare time, James also enjoys flying light aircraft and collecting big British-made piles of oil seeping rust which he calls 'motorcycles'.
Posted by James May
at 11:41 am on Friday November 14, 2008
Imagine my amazement when I opened yesterday’s super soaraway Sun newspaper and found a picture of me driving a Rolls Royce and towing a caravan.
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TAGS// Clarkson & Co, James May, Oz and James
Posted by James May
at 6:12 pm on Monday October 6, 2008
A man in the Radio Times recently said that I presented everything through a curtain of hair. So, finally, I went and had it cut. That’ll show him. Incredibly, this means I no longer have the most ridiculous hair on Top Gear. I think Richard Hammond does. He disagrees, and so a row broke out [...]
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TAGS// Clarkson & Co, In the studio, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Production notes, Richard Hammond
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