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Old 04-09-2010, 11:49 AM   #1
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Thumbs up Top Gear host James May says 'we'll just get new Stig' Plus TG Live Briz Feb 2011???

Top Gear host James May says 'we'll just get new Stig'

From: The Courier-Mail September 04, 2010 12:00AM

Top Gear presenters James May and Jeremy Clarkson. Source: The Courier-Mail
Top Gear's The Stig is finally unveiled

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Top Gear's The Stig is finally unveiled
The BBC has been refused a court injunction preventing the revealing of The Stig's identity.
Views today: 94

THE Stig has won the right to unmask himself but the Top Gear wheels roll on - right over the top of him.

A British court this week granted racing driver Ben Collins the right to reveal his identity in his autobiography. The battle cost the BBC £100,000 and Collins his contract.

Co-host James May doesn't sound too attached. "It's a bit of a story," he told The Courier-Mail's Fiona Purdon yesterday.

"It doesn't make a huge amount of difference. We just get a new one."

From this next statement, we conclude the Stig wasn't a fixture at after-work drinks: "Look it up but I think it is Ben Collins who was the Stig driver."

Anyway, May says he's a certainty for the next Australian leg of the Top Gear Live show, probably in January or February. At this stage, unconfirmed whispers also suggest BrisVegas might be in the loop. Meanwhile, May has other fish to fry: his book How to Land an A330 Airbus and Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man is out next month

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Old 04-09-2010, 12:42 PM   #2
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Anyway, May says he's a certainty for the next Australian leg of the Top Gear Live show, probably in January or February. At this stage, unconfirmed whispers also suggest BrisVegas might be in the loop. Meanwhile, May has other fish to fry: his book How to Land an A330 Airbus and Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man is out next month
top gear live website says there is a website coming soon each for Brisbane and Melbourne
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Old 04-09-2010, 01:42 PM   #3
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Ahh one day he will learn the hard way. It wasn't about him, it was about the show and the mystery character.
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Old 04-09-2010, 02:38 PM   #4
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Ahh one day he will learn the hard way. It wasn't about him, it was about the show and the mystery character.
Bingo, I couldn't care less who played the Stig.
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Old 04-09-2010, 02:57 PM   #5
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Awesome new James may book. His last 2 where great.
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Old 04-09-2010, 02:57 PM   #6
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Bingo, I couldn't care less who played the Stig.
Same, and I couldn't care less if they introduce a new one
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Old 04-09-2010, 04:40 PM   #7
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top gear live website says there is a website coming soon each for Brisbane and Melbourne
Yep im going to if it is
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Old 04-09-2010, 05:46 PM   #8
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i will also be there if it comes to melb
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Old 04-09-2010, 05:48 PM   #9
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im going for a new "red stig"

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Return of the Black stig?
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Old 05-09-2010, 10:35 PM   #13
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Old 06-09-2010, 07:35 AM   #14
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I don't get it.
I go away, come back, and it's all over the news about the stig and Ben Collins. Then whilst trying to catch up with what's happening, I hear Bob Brown on the radio talking about mandates and why we still don't have a government.
I think I must have gone through a rip in the space/time continuum and ended up in Bizarro World.
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Old 07-09-2010, 02:40 PM   #16
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I reckon in the best tradition of bold & the beautiful they should replace him & act like nothing has changed
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I think this thread has shown that nobody gives a crap about Ben Collins. I think everyone has already moved on... He'll be sorry.
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Old 07-09-2010, 03:19 PM   #18
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I mean, what's the blurb on the cover going to say, "as formerly seen on one of the most popular tv shows on the planet (until he ****** it up)"
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i don`t think jeremy clarkson is taking this whole `stig` thing very well
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Old 07-09-2010, 11:48 PM   #20
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Go the Blue Stig, Brown Stig, Chartruse Stig.....
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Ben Collins has just lost one of the greatest jobs on the planet, silly man.
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