Breaking News: The Stig is some guy

The Sunday Times has released the identity of Top Gear's stunt driver The Stig. Only 19 short months after the Daily Telegraph did.

In what is a most confusing lapse in editorial attention, Ben Collins was revealed to be The Stig in Sunday's edition of The Sunday Times (oh, I get it - it's out on a Sunday... clever). The thing is, on January 20th 2009, The Daily Telegraph said the exact same thing and the Times ragged on them for it.

The news that The Stig is a person and not some kind of petrol blooded alien is not, if you ask me, really news. It's understandable that we the curious media would want to know who he is (what if it's someone really cool? What if it's a woman!), but curiosity aside, the fact that there have been several Stigs is the worst kept secret in TV. Rumour has it, since his inception in 2002, there have been about 9 Stigs.

It's a slow news week when his identity makes headline news, but it's a comatose researcher week when no-one notices that we already knew.

The Stig's very first appearance, incidentally Black Stig was well known to be Perry McCarthy. Scooped you there, The Sunday Times.