article_snippet.sent: Hammond said chiefs at the corporation also originally vetoed hiring May, claiming the three were all ‘middle-class public-schoolish blokes of a similar age’.
article_snippet.sent: BBC BBC said the Clarkson, 55, Hammond, 45, and May, 52, were ‘a bit cheese and cheese’, meaning cheese and cheese were too similar in age and background.
article_snippet.sent: ‘was fairly middle-class and of a similar age’.