Book reveals The Stig's identity. Top Gear not happy.

Unbelieveable how BBC lostt this.

It was all harmless fun for the kids, and even the adults, and some miserable ****s had to take it to another money grabbing selfish level.

Well **** you harpercollins, **** you and I hope no one buys your faggot book and you go out of business.

We should get 4chan in on this. They would show them their disapproval.
 
Top Gear presenter James May, who was a studio guest on BBC London when High Court's decision was announced, made light of the situation.

He said: "Obviously I'm now going to have to take some legal action of my own, because I have been the Stig for the past seven years, and I don't know who this bloke is, who's mincing around in the High Court pretending it's him."
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:D
 
Abraham said:
Why should he get paid as much as the presenters? I would assume he's paid more than the going rate for a review/test driver.
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I didn't say he should be paid the same, but surely the fact he's contributed to the mystique and saleability of the Stig should give him some form of credit? I mean, it's all very well saying "They could have put any old driver in a helmet"*, but the fact was it was him. He was the one who raced everything so well, and helped out all the stars, and through that, helped the BBC launch all its Stig-related produce.

I'd say the publicity and sales of yet another tell-all autobiography are probably what he deserves for his part.

*They're all bloody caricatures these days anyway, aren't they? You could replace any of Clarkson/Hammond/May with an impersonator and you'd barely notice the difference. Hell, any of us could probably do a decent impression, given how much we've seen of them over the years.

Clarkson: "Be a bit right-wing!"
Hammond: "Be overly enthusiastic!"
May: "Be slightly boring!"
 
Weebull said:
I didn't say he should be paid the same, but surely the fact he's contributed to the mystique and saleability of the Stig should give him some form of credit? I mean, it's all very well saying "They could have put any old driver in a helmet"*, but the fact was it was him. He was the one who raced everything so well, and helped out all the stars, and through that, helped the BBC launch all its Stig-related produce.

I'd say the publicity and sales of yet another tell-all autobiography are probably what he deserves for his part.

*They're all bloody caricatures these days anyway, aren't they? You could replace any of Clarkson/Hammond/May with an impersonator and you'd barely notice the difference. Hell, any of us could probably do a decent impression, given how much we've seen of them over the years.

Clarkson: "Be a bit right-wing!"
Hammond: "Be overly enthusiastic!"
May: "Be slightly boring!"
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The presenters are Brands, people watch it because of them. The same way Tom cruise is a brand you couldn't just replace him with a short guy with short hair and expect the same viewing figures. However there are a lot of good drivers who could easily replace the stig. As for credit he got £5,000-£10,000 a episode.
 
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Abraham said:
I'd expect them to kill him off again, although they did blow him up in the last series, he was in it afterwards though.
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Yeah, most likely, they will use it as a way to sell a whole load of new Stig merchandising. Obviously he's a joke character for adults, but it's nice that his identity was a secret... I see that some people are saying stuff like it's been known for years... well not really unless you really went looking for it. It's all over national news and trending on Twitter, so it's fully out there in the public knowledge now.

Kids though think he's real and they sell all kinds of stuff related to him, including white helmets!


Ben has obviously been quite important to Top Gear, so I guess it depends on what they think about their relationship with him and the confidentiality of his job as to whether they keep him or not.
 
**** him, thats all I can say.

Hopefully the book will be a total flop. Lets be honest.. all the people who care about it are Top Gear fans.

What top gear fans are going to want to give this guy and his greedy publishers any money?

NO ONE I hope.

I hope he cant live with himself for all the millions of childrens christmas's he has ruined, and he goes on to lead a lonely and isolated life, culminating in several suicide attempts due to his inability to live with the guilt.
 
Weebull said:
I didn't say he should be paid the same, but surely the fact he's contributed to the mystique and saleability of the Stig should give him some form of credit? I mean, it's all very well saying "They could have put any old driver in a helmet"*, but the fact was it was him. He was the one who raced everything so well, and helped out all the stars, and through that, helped the BBC launch all its Stig-related produce.

I'd say the publicity and sales of yet another tell-all autobiography are probably what he deserves for his part.

*They're all bloody caricatures these days anyway, aren't they? You could replace any of Clarkson/Hammond/May with an impersonator and you'd barely notice the difference. Hell, any of us could probably do a decent impression, given how much we've seen of them over the years.

Clarkson: "Be a bit right-wing!"
Hammond: "Be overly enthusiastic!"
May: "Be slightly boring!"
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You couldn't really be further from the truth. You really couldn't replace any of them and achieve the same standard of programme or entertainment. Look at when they had Jason Dawe on the show... he was awful.

This autobiography will probably kill Ben Collins career, if anything. If it's true that the Beeb have replaced him, he's simply a Stig, not THE Stig.

I thought numerous drivers had played The Stig through Collins' company anyway.
 
I don't think anyone should have the right to supress a trutfully written and non libellous book. But this whole thing will have backfired on Ben Collins big time. Yes he'll sell a load of books but no company will ever trust him again. Breaking a confidentiality agreement is a big no no and firmly puts you in the 'don't employ me' bracket.

As someone suggested, he would have been better to quit gracefully, let the BBC kill this incarnation of the stig off and then publish. That way everyone wins.

I'm sure the stig will be back, perhaps after some sort of Dr Who style regeneration sequence.
 
I can imagine either of these 2 storylines.

1 he is arrested for paying Schumacher to crash in to Barrichello due to him beating his lap time.

2. He has a accident and is replaced.
 
Hows he gonna sell a shed load of books though?

No one really cares WHO Ben Collins is.... just who the Stig is..

Now everyone knows, who wants to read his book?

This is what I dont get
 
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