Top Gear's Stig
 

BBC lawyers bid to stop Top Gear's Stig releasing autobiography
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...tobiography.do

but i want to know who he is :cool:

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I couldn't care less who he is.

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not you is it Gary https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/08/27.gif

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I know who he WAS....

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No. If it was me you'd see faster lap times :)

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Wasn't Perry McCarthy, was it?

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Well if he\she signed a confidentiality agreement when they got the job tough luck live with it. I am no fan of the bbc as anyone on here will know but in this i support them. Part of the fun of top gear is the stig and stig is meant to be anonymous even though many of us are pretty sure there isn't just one of them take your pay as you have for years and wait till you get replced then release a book no one would have a problem with that but cashing in now and destroying a piece of the show not on really..

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and me it's in the link


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yer but don't you really want know who he is https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/08/26.gif

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Nope and if i really wanted too i could :).

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my wife thinks the stig is a female becuse of the shape of the waist

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Wasn't it revealed that the Stig was Michael Schumacher?

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No, it wasn't.

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no that was just a wind up :D

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I think he is many drivers

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They need a new one anyway, now that he's no long the fastest round the track

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No he was dressed up as the Stig to drive his car arround the TG track, the ar was the only road legal version on the planet.

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It was only Schumacher to drive the Ferrari FXX, as that's only who Ferrari would allow to drive it. Or something like that

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Once the mystery is out Stig will get his 10 minutes of fame and that will be the end of that.

The way it is now is much better. The mystery keeps some people still tuning in.

Theres only one fighting to release his memoirs.

Or something like that.

Schumacher owned the one on Top Gear and he didn't give anyone but himself, permission to drive the thing.

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Quite possible, Barichello beat Stigs time when he was on Top Gear recently.

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I can see the Stig having an accident, like the black one.

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Apparently (I heard on the local radio this AM) that the BBC was trying to block it through contractual obligations, BUT, The Stig is fighting back stating the Human Rights Act, saying the beeb are preventing from using free speech.

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Yup

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Human rights lmao seriously he\she signed a contract i doubt a gun was held to the head at the time so it was signed knowingly like i said tough live with it you can't always have your cake and eat it.

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If it does come out then according to their contract the Stig will be fired... Perhaps they're looking at getting out of the contract

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There's a good anagram of the threads title -

Top Gear's Stig - can be made into - agog tipsters.

Is that what everyone will be, when they find out his name? :)

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I have to confess.


I am the Stig! It all makes sense if you think about it...

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Are you sure? I thought you were Barack Obama.......:D

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How do you know I am not also him?

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Because you don't even look like him, doh!

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The Stig unmasked... by his own company accounts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-accounts.html

looks like we have a winner ;)

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...dentified.html

Hmmm.

Wonder if this is the same guy, this was published in January 2009 and he also is Collins from Bristol.

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How about a Top Gear special where they kill him off, identify him and destroy any chances that he will make serious $$$ from the book sale.

Does it really matter who it is? Maybe time for a new one?

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Dead or not he's gonna make money from the book sales anyway.. First book published will have his real name plastered over the media so no-one is going to buy is based on finding out who he is..

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Well Ben collins won and the BBC lost, worst kept secret ever :D

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Thats a pitty...I wonder if they will just get a new stig or can the idea completely

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I read an article in a paper over the weekend which said something like "The BBC are in court this week to prevent book revealing Ben Collins is the Stig"

I thought what's the point in going to court now?

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They either appoint a new Stig, or introduce a new presenter with racing driver pedigree. It won't be quite the same "joke" with a named presenter. Perhaps Ruben's Baraccelo, since he did better than the Stig at the last outing :erm:

What is clear to me is that Ben Collins won't have a role to play anymore.

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I was wondering about a new presenter...I always thought the point of the Stig as opposed to another racing driver presenter, was 5 have Vicki Butler-Henderson, and the BBC wanted to do something different.

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So what "accident" will the Stig have, and what colour will his suit be?

I don't think another presenter will be a good idea, who would you have?

I can only think on two petrol headed babes, Vicki Butler-Henderson & Suzi Perry, both work for 5 & VBH does five gear, and would SP be aloud to work for the BBC?

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Quote from TG James May

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Whatever this story is, has it ****ed off Jeremy Clarkson in any way? I'd like to know, as it would really brighten my day if it has.

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Wonder if Jeremy Clarkson will quit writing for The Sunday Times and The Sun as News International are the ones publishing the book

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I don't care who the Stig is but I wish Jeremy Clarkson would adopt his style of communication.

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As I said in post #23 the stig's contract was such that he was automatically fired on the purposeful or accidental revealing of his true identity

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Which presumably he was well aware of, so doent care.

Pretty much like I dont care really ;)

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Right guys & gals, what colour will the next Stig be?

I'ld say green as a pee take of the anti car people.

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They've bred a new Stig.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/23...jsp?bc_id=2032

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Direct link instead of going through a slow website ;)

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/s...sive-2010-11-5

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Very funny - I guess that'll be shown in the new series.

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Fully agree, Complete waste of money

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I saw the new Stig at Top Gear Live on thursday, I'd say he's the best one yet.

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any idea when TG is back on ?

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They were saying they'd completed the Christmas special last week in the Middle East and mentioned a new series should be with us in the spring. I'll try to get some pictures and video clips from the show on here later.

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nice one Russ :tu: