Top Gear in another tw@t presenter shocker

[DovertheRoad]

Today's news...cenotaph...surely a Mash article anytime soon.... "Top Gear replaces twat presenter with another professional twat". etc etc.

Yet millions watch it. What's wrong with acceptable alternatives, like River Monsters for example?

[Seabag]

Bring back Tiff Nedell I say

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[*Bob*]

My understanding was that disrespecting the war dead (France, Argentina, Germany etc) has always been an integral part of the show, so surely donuts around the cenotaph was only a matter of time?

[DulwichFox]

Chris Evans has always been an arrogant twat.. and always will be...

I have no time for the man..

DulwichFox

[Jeremy]

Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were driving round London and creating a racket for a TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage won't get used. End of.

[Parkdrive]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were

> driving round London and creating a racket for a

> TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the

> Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage

> won't get used. End of.

American presenters never heard of the cenotaph? Really? The BBC should know, so you'd hope they might mention it. Twaterry in its purest form

[Ladygooner]

Westminster council agreed to the road closure and the police sent a 5 strong police motorcycle escort for Matt LeBlanc's Ford Mustang - what a waste of public money

[ruffers]

I'd be surprised if it was the presenters who designed the segment. Blame the producers.

[uncleglen]

I can't believe they actually closed the road for an unadulterated piece of cr*p like that....

[Earl Aelfheah]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were

> driving round London and creating a racket for a

> TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the

> Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage

> won't get used. End of.

Agreed. I don't see what the fuss is about. They drove a car through central London. That said, it's a tedious show. People who obsess about their car seem weird to me.

[Jeremy]

The Cenotaph happened to be in the background (they weren't even all that close) while pulling doughnuts along Whitehall. All very banal, and I can see why some would consider it inappropriate. The producers probably should have stopped it. But honestly - barely newsworthy.

[????]

I think a producer deserves a smack in the mouth for this

[Earl Aelfheah]

They drove down Whitehall that's all. Yes, they were driving like Tw8ts but apparently that's what people who watch Top Gear get exctited about. The fact that they passed a war memorial doesn't seem like reason to get upset to me. It wasn't as though the cenotaph was the focus of the 'stunt', it was incidental.

There is so much more about this incident which is in bad taste. For example, the more general issue of making an 'entertainment' programme that glorifies hooning it round the streets of London doing donuts.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Probably the most 'shocking' thing about this, is that such programmes still have an audience.

[*Bob*]

Permission to get notable areas of the city closed down is usually tied to alleged benefit to UK PLC, hence Top Gear - with its massive overseas audience - has some clout.

That's why Bond films always scoop top city locations.

That said, I'm sad to say that even Top Gear beats the utterly dire 'Spectre'.

[Earl Aelfheah]

This made me chuckle http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/right-wing-dad-fails-to-see-irony-of-top-gear-cenotaph-stunt-20160315107152

"Estate agent and father-of-two Hobbs felt that American Matt LeBlanc driving near the Cenotaph was ?a step too far?, despite loving it when Clarkson went to foreign countries in big cars and antagonised them as much as legally possible.....?I blame that American ? when celebrities travel they should take time to learn about local culture and history before attempting to make so-called ?jokes? that could hurt people?s feelings.?

Hobbs, who laughed like a drain when Top Gear pissed off Mexicans, Romanians and Argentinians, added: ?This kind of crass, insensitive stunt is not funny and panders to utter morons. That LeBlanc is just a cocky millionaire posing as a maverick outsider.?

[uncleglen]

I read this morning that this piece of self-indulgent twattery is costing the LICENCE PAYER i.e us ?100,000 for goodness' sake BBC (aren't a lot of them Oxbridge 'educated'?)

[Jeremy]

Top Gear makes the BBC loads of money through overseas sales. They'll recoup that 100K easily. Enough of the tabloid headlines, uncleglen.

[Otta]

I hate Tog Gear, and I think the presenters past and present are like children who've been told they can do whatever they like.

But I'm basically with Jeremy and rahrahrah on this. It's a non story.

[uncleglen]

I do not read or buy tabloids- never have done- never will do-newspapers are so full of yesterday's news. I happened to read it online by accident fyi Jezza

[Jeremy]

I meant that it is the kind of pointless trivia a tabloid would report as "news"...