Jack
20-01-2009, 06:19 PM
The petrol-soaked world of Top Gear is in turmoil today.
Cult character Stig, the crash helmeted driver who tests cars at ludicrous speeds on the show - and whose identity is fiercely protected by the BBC - has been outed.
And staff at the corporation are furious. One insider compared the naming of the mystery driver to revealing that Santa didn't exist.
What combustible Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson will say about his unmasking can only be imagined.
The previous Stig, Perry McCarthy, was fired from the deck of a warship after disclosing his character in a 2002 autobiography.
Many Top Gear fans speculated that he had been replaced by a celebrity, or even a real racing driver such as former Formula One champ Damon Hill.
They may be a trifle disappointed to learn he is in fact a 33-year-old former racer and stuntman from Bristol, who let slip his big secret in the unlikely setting of an art store in Bristol.
Photos and the rest of the story ...
clickyty click (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1123502/The-Stig-unmasked-Identity-Top-Gears-mystery-test-driver-revealed.html)
If you can be :asshole:ed!
Cult character Stig, the crash helmeted driver who tests cars at ludicrous speeds on the show - and whose identity is fiercely protected by the BBC - has been outed.
And staff at the corporation are furious. One insider compared the naming of the mystery driver to revealing that Santa didn't exist.
What combustible Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson will say about his unmasking can only be imagined.
The previous Stig, Perry McCarthy, was fired from the deck of a warship after disclosing his character in a 2002 autobiography.
Many Top Gear fans speculated that he had been replaced by a celebrity, or even a real racing driver such as former Formula One champ Damon Hill.
They may be a trifle disappointed to learn he is in fact a 33-year-old former racer and stuntman from Bristol, who let slip his big secret in the unlikely setting of an art store in Bristol.
Photos and the rest of the story ...
clickyty click (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1123502/The-Stig-unmasked-Identity-Top-Gears-mystery-test-driver-revealed.html)
If you can be :asshole:ed!