A couple of months ago a UK court ruled in favour of Ben Collins, the man formerly known as The Stig, allowing him to publish his autobiography. Collins’ tale lifted the curtain on some of the mystique behind Top Gear and the BBC were not too impressed. Unhappy with that initial ruling the BBC are taking the case back to court.
Collins confirmed the new stoush a few days ago saying, “I’ve just had to do a load of witness statements for round two. As it stands they are pursuing me for breach of contract. So here we go again.”
The Beeb are adamant that Collins had revealed his identity well before the autobiography controversy broke. Collins, of course, denies that is the case, “I worked so hard to keep a lid on the whole thing and stay anonymous. I didn’t tell anybody what I did. I used to go to the locations wearing a balaclava in my civvy clothes, which was all my idea, I wasn’t told to do it.
“It seems ridiculous, the BBC stance. Even though they lost the first case they are pursuing me a second time, saying I was leaking my identity. It’s pretty hard to hear it and I’m pretty fed up with it.”
We can certainly understand the latter point, there. Based on recent comments from Jeremy Clarkson announcing a new Stig has been selected it looks like Collins will be the subject of countless passive aggressive attacks in future. What do you think, is Clarkson right to attack Collins’ integrity, or should he just suck it up and move on?
[Source: Drive.com.au]
3 replies on “Top Gear drags Stig drama back to court”
It’s easy for Clarkson to attack, but does he realise that while he’s set up for life because his Top Gear profile, maybe others aren’t.
Also it’s nice to see a Top Gear related book on the shelves that isn’t a ghost written piece of rubbish, such as Top Gear Daft Cars.
I’m mostly angry at Top Gear because it means there are no good Transport related books at the book store anymore, because the Top Gear books take up 5/6 of the available shelf space.
Suck it up and move on. The man has a right to make a living. They’ve got about three Collins jokes before the whole topic goes very very stale, and they’ve already used two of them.
An incredibly wealthy boor (and I like Clarkson) beating up on a talented behind the scenes worker is not a good look.
JC acting like a immature brat? no way?