Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruiser, screenshot of the motion picture Knight and Day
According to a recent report in British tabloid The Sun, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz will make a guest appearance on this weekend’s episode of Top Gear.
As a way to promote their new motion picture Knight and Day, which opens in the UK on August 6th, the two movie stars will take a spin in the reasonably priced car - the Kia Cee’d.
Most remarkable is that a source from the Top Gear show told Sun it was actually Cruise’s people who contacted the show about a possible appearance. As you will imagine, Top Gear was happy to oblige considering Cruise and Diaz are some of the biggest stars to ever appear on the program.
Don’t forget to tune in on BBC Two on Sunday 25 July!
Michael Schumacher has finally been revealed as The Stig. Or has he? In the first episode of season 13 of the popular British motoring show BBC Topgear, the elusive Stig is seen being accompanied into the studio where they shoot the series. Later he is sitting on the guest couch and begins to take off his white helmet. To the audience’s shock Schumi appears from underneath the helmet, fakes a wink and smiles, giving the admiring audience a thumbs-up.
The Stig is one of the most searched words on the Internet. Almost all the searches are interested in one thing and one thing only; getting an answer to the question “who is The Stig?” Several names have been bandied about in the past as concerning this very important question. The only confirmed one is Tyler Perry, an ex F1 tester who was killed off from the series after telling everyone who read his tell-all book that he was the black Stig. Apparently the show’s producers frown upon such behaviour.
Over the past year or so interest has been renewed in The Stig after several media outlets pointed to an ex British racer named Ben Collins as the man under the white racing suit and mask. Some say there is more than one Stig, while presenter Jeremy Clarkson told South African journalists that he is pretty sure The Stig is Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Clarkson even “outed” President Barack Obama as the speechless tame racing driver.
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson used his column in The Sun newspaper to mock the recent rumors surrounding the Stig’s identity as Ben Collins.
Clarkson insists the rumors are an attempt to spoil everyone’s fun and then goes on to say that the recent reports that the Stig is Ben Collins are wrong and that there is no single Stig. He then jokes about the internet speculation by saying “There are four (Stigs). The main one is Damon Hill. It’s Tiff Needell.”
The drama that surrounds the Stig’s identity has ended up with members of the Top Gear crew being followed by paparazzi which led to naming of Collins who works for the show. Clarkson did admit that for still photographs there are several people who have donned the white suit and helmet in order to portray the Stig but only one is allowed to drive on the track. This leads us to Clarkson’s last jab at the Daily Telegraph were he goes on say that the Stig’s real identity is that of BBC royal reporter Nicholas Witchell.
We’re great fans on the British Top Gear tv programme, and during the last show Clarkson put the BMW M3 against the Lexus IS-F. It’s quite a nice comparison, so we hope you’ll like it!