It has been reported by British tabloids that Ben Collins (allegedly The Stig), has been sacked from the hit motoring show Top Gear. Pictures from the Daily Mirror, showed Collins playing with his kids at his home in England, while the “tame racing driver” was at a Top Gear Live event at the Nurburgring, Germany.
The supposed replacement Stig was brought in a week after Ben Collins’ was unmasked as the Stig. This comes after a row between Collins and the BBC on his right to publish his autobiography. BBC bosses state that the book is in breach of a confidentiality agreement.
Naturally his publishers HarperCollins disagree, stating that the BBC are wasting British TV audiences’ license fee money on costly legal action.
Rumours surfaced as Collins being The Stig, after reports from his company accounts pointed to the direction of Ben Collins as it described “a cornerstone year in 2003”, a month after the white Stig made his first TV appearance.
Ben Collins is remaining tight-lipped about the whole fiasco only saying “I am not allowed to talk about it.” Thus just another log entry into the rumourmill of the most famous-faceless race driver in the world.
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No matter who is behind the helmet, he always being called the Stig.
There will be no ans to this because no one is the stig, everyone could be the stig.
this is true the stig could be me the stig could be you or even prince harry
agree…remember top gear been testing the enzo FXX??..they said the driver was the stig, but in reality only schumy can drive it…for me, just let that “white thing” identity is mysterious, because of stig top gear show being famous =D
The stig is just a way to make topgear more attractive to watch, as it involves mystery behind the mask. Another reason why is that they can use a few racer to become stig for different cars or vehicle tester. Just like in previous series of topgear about truck racing, the stig is fat!
the fat stig?,i remember the episode,it was very funny,but it was his cousin la,haha……
Saw that episode too,
The Stig’s truck driver cousin came complete with tanned arm for sticking it out of the window too much.. hilarious.
Either the tabloids forget that there are more than one person playing the Stig. That gives the other person an alibi. I am not sure if Collins sacked yet.
they should hire Raja Petra Kamarudin to be the next stig
LOL
Please don’t go there bro.. not in this forum
why so seriuos bro?
LOL
it shouldn’t matter who the stig is and i agree with the bbc in regards to keeping the stigs id hidden. If the stigs id is revealed then the whole mysteriousness is lost
What kids… thats Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as special guest of TopGear
DUH !
Tom cruise doing the two wheeler thingy…..
And he is the fastest of all currently!
come on guys… it’s just a tv show…disclosing stig and sacking him is also part of the show…
the stig is always be the stig…..at Nam….or truck dirver….or rc driver…All we know is… he’s called The Stig!…..
there are a lot of stigs in topgear……………………….
Some say he is the personification of F1 racing greats, and inside his suit is an 8liter, W16, 1200ps quad-turbo engine capable of doing 0-100 in 2.5 sec. All we know is, He is the Stig!
reminds me of the movie “death race”
the stig “things” are just enough to make me bore..
the original actual “STIG” was stig himself….pls do google who is the fast driver named stig….
but later replaced with black stig…
and this ben-stig…
while bbc actually appointed many2 stig (not only those 3driver) on some special occasion….like red stig…..fat stig etc etc….
btw…i don’t care who is stig…as long as his laptime worthy as the fastest topgear driver (shouldn’t be slower than current stig if new stig was coming)
I think the stig fired himself, due to barrichello win his over his laptime a few episode back… :P
Which episode barrichello beat stig’s time?
so barikelo was the new-to-be stig????
-maybe yes maybe not…
who knows….
Watch this clip http://www.topgear.com/AU/videos/rubens-barrichello
Rubens Barrichello wearing an “I beat the Stig” t-shirt. http://www.attwilliams.com/news/view/1484
His lap time of 1:44.3 put him ahead of The Stig by 0.1 seconds
i like the green stig.. eco friendly but ended passout due to the exhaust smoke inside the cabin.. LOL…. TopGear is been a very entertaining TV show and ill still watch if is without stig.. Ben collins is a back stabber, as he sign the agreement not to reveal his appearance but at the end he did just becos everyone is famous in topgear but not him… idiot with high jealousy..
He’s not allowed to talk about it because he would rather you go out and buy his book, which is nothing other than a blatant cash-in before his poor racing/stunt career truly goes ‘tits up’
Everyone knows Michael Schumacher in his one appearance became the ultimate Stig anyway ^_^
Well the BBC lost their court case anyway, so the Judge must have thought that the Stig was being mistreated financially….lol. Just another soap opera at the BBC…
Some say he is a CIA experiment gone wrong and that his heart is upside down. All we know he’s called the Stig!
Whoever is under that white mysterious helmet will always be The Stig. The 2nd best thing dat occured at Top Gear bsides Jeremy,Hamster and Cpt Slow.. Go Stig!
If you guys remember the episode of Top Gear where The Stig drove a Toyota F1 car in the team’s attempt to make the world’s first indoor speed record, I highly believe that the driver of the F1 machine is Michael Schumacher, as in the publicity stunt last year.