News
Breaking News: The Stig is some guy
TV News
Kirsty
23rd August 2010
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.
Support Us
Follow Us
Recent Highlights
-
Review: Jackass Forever is a healing balm for our bee-stung ballsack world
Movie Review
-
Review: Black Widow adds shades of grey to the most interesting Avenger
Movie Review
-
Review: Fast & Furious 9 is a bloodless blockbuster Scalextric
Movie Review
-
Review: Wonder Woman 1984 is here to remind you about idiot nonsense cinema
Movie Review
-
Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm arrives on time, but is it too little, or too much?
Movie Review
Advertisement
And The Rest
-
Review: The Creator is high-end, low-tech sci-fi with middling ambitions
Movie Review
-
Review: The Devil All The Time explores the root of good ol' American evil
Movie Review
-
Review: I'm Thinking Of Ending Things is Kaufman at his most alienating
Movie Review
-
Review: The Babysitter: Killer Queen is a sequel that's stuck in the past
Movie Review
-
Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon is more than a silly nammm peanut butter
Movie Review
-
Face The Music: The Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey soundtrack is most outstanding
Movie Feature
-
Review: Tenet once again shows that Christopher Nolan is ahead of his time
Movie Review
-
Review: Project Power hits the right beats but offers nothing new
Movie Review
-
Marvel's Cine-CHAT-ic Universe: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Movie Feature
-
Review: Host is a techno-horror that dials up the scares
Movie Review