Richard Hammond has admitted that if Top Gear had a female co-host, then he’d like it to be Angelina Jolie.
“I think we’d all choose Angelina,” says Hammond, in the new issue of Zoo magazine. Comparing her to Jennifer Aniston, Richard adds: “Aniston’s a well-polished chick, but Angelina has a Land Rover and guns.”
Although admitting that Mrs Brad Pitt would be the ideal choice, he says having her on set might prove problematic.
“I’d just keep fainting. She’s utterly, utterly gorgeous.”
Maybe thoughts of Ange were keeping Hammond warm this morning, as he pushed a shopping trolley across an Indiana Jones-style rope bridge in Carrick-a-Rede, Northern Ireland for a Morrisons advert.
Hammond braved the elements as it poured with rain to push the trolley over the bridge, and we imagine James May – who’s in the office right now – is feeling somewhat smug at his weatherproof office confines.
Hammond’s Morrisons ad is scheduled to air later this year, although no official date has yet been confirmed.
Although have to agree with you, you totally broke my heart, Hamster !
Nooo your the nice looking one
<3<3<3
The Hamster should prolly have stopped by their house when they did the America show a few years back and visited New Orleans? That way he could have given her a face to face “interview” of sorts for the roll.
Why not Jennifer Saunders, she of “I’ve owned three Alfa Romeos” fame? Angelina Jolie would just make you all drive Priuses and feed orphans.
Oh, Richard, you are very brave walking across that bridge. I went there when I was a kid (I am from Ulster) and I wouldn’t go anywhere near it! Mind you, before all the H&S Nazi’s got their hands on it, it was a proper rope bridge, really unstable and very dangerous on a stormy day. They have improved it a bit but it is still wobbly.
You are a brave chap, Mr Hammond. Hope you enjoyed being in Ulster, even though it was pouring with rain yesterday.
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get her on as a guest next season!
I admit that Angelina is strikingly gorgeous,but no matter how pretty or witty she or indeed any girl might be they don’t belong in a show such as TopGear.I’m not being antifeminist or whatever it’s called.A girl might do a nice job in some dreadful Bulgarian motoring show,but not in our TG.The boys might not be male-models or something,but the whole show it based around three clever,talanted middle aged men arguing and falling over and it’s simply impossible for a girl to present as a car the same way that the boys do.Especially as Jeremy,that man despite what we hear and read is a genius.There’s no one in the motoring journalism area that has this much talant and experience and witt.When he gets out of TG and the motoring journalism the world would’ve losed a brilliant man a fantastic entertainer and one of a kind car journalist.I adore this guy,the way he writes the way he presents are just unbelievable.I’m just a stuped 17 year old puber from Bulgaria and the effect this man has on me is profound.He’s changed the course of my life.And he should know that he has a 17 year old stupid boy from Bulgaria which is very grateful to him.I’ve gone a little bit offtopic here,but i think who ever reads this will get the point i’m trying to make.GOOD LUCK TO THE TEAM.
she isnt the hottest woman any more
Well, going for the fit bird with nice guns (and some nice guns) is defo going to solve the whole sexism issue… riiight?
Btw, bitterly disappointed at the lack of a confirmed release date for a Morrisons advert. What are those guys playing at?!
Mr. Angelov, I know what you mean – were it not for him, I might be obsessed with trains instead of cars! But cars it is, and I am now hoping to [after some higher education] claw my way into Motoring Journalism myself – yes, I realise it’s not all powersliding and lol-ing with CEOs and celebs – but I still think I’d enjoy it greatly.
Oh no!!!!!!! Ur the nice looking one!!! You broke a young girls heart (me, you dimwit!!!)…
Having a girl host Top Gear would be like having a man host a show about knitting.
I remember Top Gear said in a survey, more people would want to be in car with James May, then Angelina Jolie.
Want to see that Morrisons advert NOW and i won’t be happy till i do!!!!! Love Richard!!
Sorry, but my hubby is better looking than the lot of them… you’ll just never get to see it for yourselves
shame really
A female of the opposite sex, presenting Top Gear???
Hell will have frozen over, the lunatics will have finally taken over the asylum AND Jeremy Clarkson will have pierced his nipples.
Just NO!
Someone take the Hamster out and slap him hard.
I’m a girl and I don’t want Top Gear presented by a girl. It doesn’t fit the dynamic. Besides, “Top Gear boys and Angelina Jolie” is too much of a mouthful, especially compared to “Top Gear boys.”
Comment 14, BMW, I haven’t heard that statistic and they probably made it up but I’d rather be in a car with James May.
What does everyone else think?
Nooooo, girls, won’t work in a million years, Harriet Harman started this, well the answer is
NO No No. If its not broke don’t try to mend.Remember.TG is not broke, its No1 BBC2 show and thats the way it stays. Right.Go away Harman fix something thats broke.Leave TG alone.
Just one thing… how much taller Angelina is compare to Hammond?
That’s a very good point Sweetlizard, I recon he’d only come up to her t… ah now I understand!
No no no…Phillipa Forrester…
I think a female would be good for parts of the show but not someone like angelina jolie
Better ask Sabine Schmitz, the Nurnberg van driver!
*is jealous of angelina jolie*
Oooooh I knew he would say something like that! :L
Why not Megan Fox? she is super sexy and she is also single:)
and may I just say angelina jolie has the BIGGEST mouth ever!
Just No On That One, Keep The Current Team On TG, Someone like Angelina Crosses Me As Humourless, And James, Richard And Jeremy Give The Show Its Vibe And Are The Reason So Many People Watch, Dont Change A Thing !!!!
all this talk about women presenters. you silly silly people. Now, more out takes please.
top gear is a bloke only show havin a woman would mean a load of crap small cars. woemin just want a car 2 pop 2 the shops in. men like super cars. wimin are driven by toblarone, men are driven by testostarone.
Is totally sad!!!! why oh why richy!!! why her!!!! could have chosen some one who actually LIKES cars!!!!!! =( xxx
Oh just to say..woman love super cars and think they are great!!!!
LOL hamster!! i crossed dat bridge b4 nd me mam almost took a fit! Ur a brave one!!
Top Gear in its current format doesn’t need a female presenter. However, it has had several in its previous incarnations – I’ve been watching so long I remember some of them – including the likes of Angela Rippon, Kate Humble and of course VBH. When this phase of Top Gear finally reaches its end (hopefully not for a good while yet), who knows where the format might go? Personally, I wouldn’t rule anything out, but having grown up on Top Gear, I’d hate to see it disappear completely.
Also, having read other snippets from that interview, does our Hamster have a bit of a kinky streak?
So, is this the kind of thing that goes on in between seasons? Folks come up with ways to destroy the only decent show ON television anywhere in the western hemisphere, if indeed not the entire planet? I thought the show was about cars and the fun things three brilliant guys with no respect for their own persons are willing to do with them.
Where’s Andy Wilman? Isn’t he supposed to be the ringmaster behind this glorious circus known as Top Gear? Andy, do something! This is getting scary. We’ve got enough bad news over here in the States……..
I like RH’s Mozzers adverts better than Angelina. I hate the woman!!!!
oooohhhh! somebodys got a soft spot for Angelina Jolie!! xxx
Just watched the Morrisons ad (http://www.morrisons.co. uk/). Can’t really see why anybody would actually want British meat. No offense, but internationally it’s not really regarded as the safest thing to eat due to poor legislation and worse practice. In other words – British cows aren’t always the most healthy. Take mad cow disease for instance (you eat a hamburger, and then ten years later they tell you that you are going to die – that sucks).
Enough about meat! Angelina’s nice, but is she British enough?
actually british meat is incredibly safe, its heavily legislated and every piece of meat can be traced back to the farm and cow’s lineage. Stop posting useless propaganda.
Boooo, i dont get the whole angelina thing, i dont think shes any prettier than an average pretty woman. all guys seem to love her and say im jealous when i say i dont like her but i dont…am i totally alone here? my opinion of you, hamster, has slightly declined…only slightly tho coz your purdy
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Hmm, I think sack Hammond, employ Angelina, get Wilman on screen more and put it all on The Adult Channel…
*faints
I have seen the advert with hammond for morrisons on tv.I like it.
no way!!! angie wud take all the cameras off the hamster (hot)
Yeah I agree, sign up Angelina, I’m having a lot of trouble taking Hammond seriously since he’s started whoring himself out to supermarket adverts. I mean seriously, who listens to a salesman when buying a car – you’re either a car reviewer or a salesman Hammond – choose!
you should be really brave if you want to work with the mother of Achilles`s children!
you should be really brave if you want to work with the mother of Achilles`s kids!
i think it wouldnt be the same with a female presenter
hammond poor onceagain something slapped but still it´s a gret guy you drove F1 and I´d still I´m fan.
In the Czech republice know Top Gear
and sorry for my English
good bye
In Germany, they tried that. 3 Girls presenting a motoring show. Although they were rather cute, (even witty sometimes) the show was cancelled after half a year or so.Not a big success, as Top Gear still is, after 13 series. If Angelina Jolie would be co-hosting TG, she would kick JC in the head everytime he opens his mouth(Lara Croft style), which would be funny for one show, but as a running gag, wear off pretty fast, LOL
Stay the way you are, cuz the only chick i could think of as co-host, is Kate Silverton, because she seems to have a comparable amount of enthusiasm towards driving cars fast.
Get madison back – start with the NEC – shes a brummie anyway
Madison is well fit – and a laugh too. Give her the odd guest appearance; not a regular slot, but something like she did before – Mille Miglia with James perhaps?
lol.That would be fun
Madison rides motorbikes too …… love her in leather ..
1. Angie has a MASSIFF mouth
and
2. Having a girl presenting would just be planly wrong.
unless it was me. then it would be competly fine
Schmidt [sp] would be great but if I have to choose between Angelina and Aniston, I’d pick Angelina as well.
This is all very well, but when ‘potential female co-stars’ send in nice strand ideas (such using Nationwide Suzuki SJs to highlight the appalling state of the UK roads through ‘tests’ such as passengers trying to drink coffee, apply lipstick etc) and then one finds that Top Gear has ‘borrowed’ the ideas without so much as a credit, I doubt any female co-stars could be persuaded to work with a team of playground snatchers!
Now there’s a race – Hamster with Angelina in his shopping trolly, Jezza with Maysie in another starting at one end of Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge – 1st to the other side by any means fair or foul wins a weeks supply of Morrisons halibut
Really? Angelina Jolie? Sorry but I think you need someone that more of your size Hamster. Jolie seems abit intimidating for you. And please get a hair cut! I know that you enjoy driving a Pick-up truck in US. But don’t grow a mullet like a red-neck.
Job Less Guy!
USA
If Ange turns you down I’m totally up for the part. You need an Aussie on the show for sure. Can provide character references if required xx lol
Ange is cool but (and excuse the quote!), You Belong With Me!!!
No women on Tope Gear…No! No! No! Hamster, how could you? If you weren’t so unbelievably gorgeous I would request that Clarkson slap you for that comment. I speak for at least seven female fans of the show when I say we girls don’t want to see a woman on Top Gear …….
The show is perfect as it is!
This is a show for Men about cars and so be it!
Women are only good for screwing and having children!