James May quits Top Gear
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Sydney Morning Herald said:
The programme's co-creator Andy Wilman was overheard loudly priming Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay with a ridiculous rumour over lunch with in Sussex to see whether anyone listening would bite and take it to the media the Sunday Express reported.
Seems to have worked...
airbusA346 said:
Richard Hammond on Twitter earlier today.
"To be clear amidst all this talk of us 'quitting' or not: there's nothing for me to 'quit'. Not about to quit my mates anyway."
This for me is one of the things I've grown to dislike about Top Gear. It's basically became three 'mates' dicking about. The level of dicking about has increased over the years to the point where it feels like Clarkson, and to a lesser extent Hammond are literally just taking the p1ss, with May trying and failing to occasionally actually do some interesting work."To be clear amidst all this talk of us 'quitting' or not: there's nothing for me to 'quit'. Not about to quit my mates anyway."
Yes, it probably beats Fifth Gear/Old Top Gear for 'entertainment', I just feel if they had freshened things up earlier, and not allowed it to become almost like 'jobs for the boys' it would be a far better show than it's became.
It's a shame May isn't staying with Top Gear, less of a shame Hammond isn't staying, but no shame at all that Clarksons going, he's years and years past his best. I'd actually love it if they somehow resurrected it with new hosts and it succeeded. Unfortunately I can't see that happening.
carl_w said:
Whilst I've quite enjoyed the Classic Car Show, Jodie Kidd is a terrible presenter. The "on location" bits aren't too bad but in the studio she doesn't/can't disguise the fact that she's clearly reading from an autocue. Yes, we know TV presenters read from autocues but it shouldn't look like they're reading out the words.
Not just me then.. It's like watching Bridget Jones' diary at timesSad Ken said:
She's not very good like.
Thing is though, she actually is. When you watch back siarpc she's nothing like how she was on classic car show. She is clearly a very passionate petrol head, but the non disguised script reading and ever emphasised facial expressions really didn't do it for me I'm afraid.
chr15b said:
Thing is though, she actually is. When you watch back siarpc she's nothing like how she was on classic car show.
She is clearly a very passionate petrol head, but the non disguised script reading and ever emphasised facial expressions really didn't do it for me I'm afraid.
I've only ever seen her on a couple of episodes of the classic car show and driving on the top gear track. On the classic car show I was wincing through most of it. Cringeworthy stuff.She is clearly a very passionate petrol head, but the non disguised script reading and ever emphasised facial expressions really didn't do it for me I'm afraid.
Sad Ken said:
This for me is one of the things I've grown to dislike about Top Gear. It's basically became three 'mates' dicking about. The level of dicking about has increased over the years to the point where it feels like Clarkson, and to a lesser extent Hammond are literally just taking the p1ss, with May trying and failing to occasionally actually do some interesting work.
Yes, it probably beats Fifth Gear/Old Top Gear for 'entertainment', I just feel if they had freshened things up earlier, and not allowed it to become almost like 'jobs for the boys' it would be a far better show than it's became.
It's a shame May isn't staying with Top Gear, less of a shame Hammond isn't staying, but no shame at all that Clarksons going, he's years and years past his best. I'd actually love it if they somehow resurrected it with new hosts and it succeeded. Unfortunately I can't see that happening.
There isn't enough dicking about on the tellyYes, it probably beats Fifth Gear/Old Top Gear for 'entertainment', I just feel if they had freshened things up earlier, and not allowed it to become almost like 'jobs for the boys' it would be a far better show than it's became.
It's a shame May isn't staying with Top Gear, less of a shame Hammond isn't staying, but no shame at all that Clarksons going, he's years and years past his best. I'd actually love it if they somehow resurrected it with new hosts and it succeeded. Unfortunately I can't see that happening.
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