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Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 6:16 am
by StressedDave
Rick448 wrote:I rate Chris Harris and am pretty ambivalent about the rest with the exception of Eddie Jordan who I've got no time for at all.
There speaks a man who's never had Sabine as his waitress...
As for Eddie, just like Terry Wogan, there must be a wigless photograph out there somewhere. Perhaps its publishing will make him disappear under a rock.
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 5:31 pm
by angus
akirk wrote:well, if you go back far enough... Tiff Needell knew the odd thing about driving...
Wasn't it Tiff who shunted Nigel Mansell off during a BTCC race?
gannet wrote:Harris used to write (quite well) for EVO magazine before switching to youtube...
Hardly the amateur that Evans suggested the video recruitment process was supposed to produce. Still so long as he leaves his shotguns at home.....
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 7:48 pm
by Mr Cholmondeley-Warner
The amateur is the guy on the left hand end, Rory Reid. Not Harris.
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 1:05 am
by waremark
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:The amateur is the guy on the left hand end, Rory Reid. Not Harris.
And he is a professional broadcaster.
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 8:05 am
by Mr Cholmondeley-Warner
Indeed, but he's the one Angus is referring to.
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 10:15 am
by Horse
angus wrote:akirk wrote:well, if you go back far enough... Tiff Needell knew the odd thing about driving...
Wasn't it Tiff who shunted Nigel Mansell off during a BTCC race?.
From what I remember, NM blamed him for it. But my recollection is that it didn't look it . . .
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 10:56 am
by angus
I thought Chris Harris was the one selected from the video audition, but either way, neither he or Rory Reid are amateurs.
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:06 pm
by Silk
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:There seem to be a lot of them. Is it going to make people watch, whoever they are?
Meet your new Top Gear presentersPersonally, if the theme is, as implied by what Matt LeBlanc said the other day "I'm looking forward to smashing things up on TV" (paraphrasing), I'm going to be giving it a miss.
Typical lefty BBC. They've pandered to the equality and diversity brigade by employing a token ginger. I'd rather have someone who's made it on merit.
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:42 pm
by Triquet
I wait and see and reserve judgement. I also wait for the trapped nerve in the shoulder to get sorted so I can come out for a Driving Day. I'm missing the fun
Re: The new Top Gear team is announced
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:14 pm
by Silk
Triquet wrote::mrgreen:
I wait and see and reserve judgement.
Evans' target audience is thick people under 40. As I don't fit into at least one of those categories, I'll be giving it a miss.