If you had to pick a replacement for Jeremy Clarkson, what would be the most natural fit? Perhaps a bear with a penchant for power and two thumbs to hold a steering wheel? Well, if you asked the BBC, the best choice would appear to be a beautiful, svelte, blonde model.
Jodie Kidd is purportedly in “advanced talks” with BBC execs as part of a replacement trio that includes actor Philip Glenister and TV presenter/motorcycle racer Guy Martin. That’s the news coming from the UK-based publication Express, which is reporting tidbits of a conversation overheard emanating from the show’s co-creator, Andy Wilman. Wilman quit the TV program last month following Clarkson’s firing and apparently spilled the news to Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay during a lunch in Sussex.
Clarkson was dismissed from Top Gear in March following a “fracas” at a North Yorkshire Hotel that saw the 12-year TV veteran allegedly verbally and physically abuse a producer for the show. Co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond have both expressed their disinterest in continuing their posts without Clarkson onboard.
“To be clear amidst all this talk of us ‘quitting’ or not” there’s nothing for me to ‘quit.’ Not about to quit my mates anyway,” Hammond tweeted late last month.
Speculation places the shows return some time next spring at the earliest.
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Jodie Kidd Could Star In New Top Gear Series originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 6 May 2015 07:00 EST.
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