Ever wondered what would happen if Clarkson, Hammond and May interviewed themselves? Or each other, rather. Real, proper insight into the off-screen lives of telly’s hardest-working car presenter types? Unanimous agreement on the greatest car of all time?
Er, nope. Just more ribbing and banter. The boys take up two pages of today’s Sun newspaper giving away such secrets as, er, where they live, what sort of sweets they prefer (Minstrels for Jeremy, and Jelly Babies for Richard, since you ask) and why James believes Britain to be upside down.
Really. Under questioning from Jeremy, James confidently asserts that John O’Groats is the closest town to France, while Cornwall is up near Iceland.
“My mental mapping… has an electrical malfunction of some sort,” explains James. “For some reason Britain is upside down in my head and the rest of Europe is the right way up. It makes getting around hotels quite difficult.”
The boys also discuss the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of touring with Top Gear Live, and Richard dispels the myth that he was once sick during a live show.
“The sick never technically left my body,” he says, “because I swallowed it. Does that actually count as being sick? To be sick is to ejaculate vomit.”
Mmm. Thought you’d like to hear that one. The interview also contains James’s explanation of why there are two Albert Halls in London, why Jeremy now looks like Simon Cowell and exactly why Hammond has big eyes.
For the full interview, grab a copy of the Sun today. If you want to experience for yourself the bantering, vomiting, nonsense-talking miracle that is Top Gear Live, buy your tickets now…
Now now hammond you dont want to be swallowing sick the acid is not good for you or your white teeth. Acid Ruined teeth can not be fixed with teeth whitener.
haha this looks good! off to buy the paper!
if only the Sun could be delivered to Wisconsin…
Why the bloody sun?? Get it in a real newspaper. Perhaps one that has, well, news?
this is a good page i am proud
Is there any way to get this outside Britain?
Where I live we don’t have the sun..and no top gear live anywhere near. Now where the bloody hell I’m supposed to read the interview from?
I would buy it lads, but get it into a decent newspaper. I refuse to be seen with that toilet paper in my hands. Cheers.
Can you please bring the show to Canada? We all love top gear here, and Toronto would bring in a huge number of people to see the event. Don’t forget, we too were a colony!
I LOVE TOP GEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can someone please post a link to the interview so that the rest of us (outside the UK) can read this?
Many thanks in advance chaps!
OK….can someone tell us US fans why Top Gear live is not coming to the USA???? We need a top gear live in the North America PART of the world. OK we don’t have large numbers of people that follow top gear but come on. how about OMG I CAN’T believe i’am saying this how about Toronto, Canada. You got UK fans up in Canada heck i can go food shopping mostly UK candy. plane + TOP GEAR tickets ok i can live that.
We don’t get the Sun in the US, (some might say that’s a good thing) is the interview going to be published in another paper or online?
“to ejacucate vomit” is is me or does that just sound wrong?
@13 UK/USABRITOPGEARFAN
I can think of two possible reasons that might prevent a US version of the live show.
1) The logistics of it – primarily I would be guessing the insurances involved in staging such a show could be knackering it from the start.
The public liability shield that this type of show would attract would be astronomical. Given the litigious nature (in general) of the Continental US the premiums for insurance for such a show could well be out of the BBC price range.
Remember the Polar expedition set out from Canada NOT Alaska, probably from safer bet geographically (ie land masses) and legally – as to why they aren’t doing a Canuck tour leg???
2) Interest would be my second bet. The production crew have been quite open about why the US version of the show tanked, they say it was because that in the US people didn’t seem to ‘get it’.
That’s not saying that there aren’t TG fans in the US – as we are well aware there are, but again – to make it a viable show, those ever important rantings meant they had to keep a certain level or it wasn’t sustainable.
Here in Oz, although the Aussie TG is like an ant farting in a cyclone compared to the immense popularity of TG Prime, there is enough of a car culture with that same irreverent attitude to keep it viable. We just see it as a fluffy filler between seasons
The sun? THE SUN!? What is this? Maybe try the telegraph next time.
Besides that, I have read the article, massively funny, very good. But then I would expect that from these guys.
Shame I had to throw the paper away afterwards…
The above picture at the top of this page makes me think of the painting the last supper for some strange reason.
Page 3 always goes missing when I find copies of the Sun on the bus, and thats before I got there.
is bus technicaly a swear word on this site?
For those who want to see this but who can’t get The Sun I would suggest trying one of the fansites for the boys. I am sure someone will have scanned it…
..I would still like to see them try it in Canada.
I didn’t have much hope for the US version of the show. just look at Jay Leno show they put a person in a car on a track now mm.. we all know that he took that from Top gear, just to help his 10:00 pm time slot. it has not work yet.
Why can’t i find this on the sun’s website???
Clarkson writes for the Sun remember?
When Richard was recovering it was the The Sun that Jeremy wrote the piece for them “Hamster Walks and I watched”. Mindy mentions it in On the Edge.
They could have done it just as easily in one of the other papers they write for as well.
For the non-UK fans (and everyone else, really), the interview is now online.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/s ol/homepage/features/2674 954/Top-Gear-stars-interv iew-each-other-for-The-Su n.html
yes 24th thats the closest i have ever been to 1st yey i love topgear wooow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yay
I’m really happy to signin to Top Gear news.
What a fun interview! The boys can always put a smile on our faces
Going to see tg live in Birmingham, HELL YEAH!
Not even the promise of interviews with the Terrible Trio would induce me to look at, let alone buy, the Sun.
As for comment No. 24 – grow up! Some of us haven’t got the time or the patience to scroll down through a whole shite load of exclamation marks. Similar comment applies to all those smart alecs who proudly proclaim they are the first comment. (Although it does make me chuckle when it turns out that they are not!)
they could have at least put the interview in aetter paper, perhaps the times? or maybe in all papers to make it fair
@Kadette. I think Whyelle in post 22 has hit on the reason for such an interesting publishing choice.
@Kernow. Re poster 24, you are right on both accounts, at least *this* one gave us the added amusement of being “Firts”.
S**t i didnt, nice one boys tho a waste of paper like mine and arun007 comments lol
Thanks Mrs Slow (No. 23) for posting a link to the interview.
(Yes, I know I said I wouldn’t be induced to look at the Sun, but at least reading it on-line I’m not getting my fingers grubby from the printers’ ink. And I can pretend to myself that it is, in fact a “quality” paper!)
By the way, Jeremy writes some pretty damn good columns in the Sunday Times as well. And I believe James writes for the Daily Telegraph.
ok, i don’t live in the uk and therefore i don’t know how rubbish the sun really is. but what i do know is that jezza has a column in the sun and judging by the previous comments i guess that’s the only reason the interview was in the sun. however, your comments got me wondering…if the sun is such a piece of crap, why the hell would jezza write for it ?! my guess: he sees it as a joke .
:P anyway, it was a great interview!
sound good.
Great dudes… great =]
im going 2 see top gear live in london!!! its going 2 be sub-zero!!!
jelly babies are sooo my favorite sweet and hammond dont be sick its not nice
urgh…and yuck about you being sick Hammond, or not as the case might be. It’s not good for your stomach if you do that!
I agree with the Minstrels Jeremy; but not so keen on Jelly Babies.
I want the new Top Gear book for Christmas; I perused it in a book shop one afternoon and was giggling within minutes.
Can’t wait.
The Sun? Oh well, I missed it. Put it on the website!
Wow, ejaculate vomit? That sounds awfully painful…
Yeah NBC never gave TG a serious chance. Since there’s no goverment funded television networks, you’d have to go to either PBS which is run through donations by “Viewers Like You”, or go to a privately funded network like FOX, CBS,etc.. Then you run into the issue of sposorship and bias. Fortunatly for me, I live in Metropolitan-Detroit, so I am able to get Canada’s CBC. Which is probably TG’s best shot in the North American market. BBC America is simply too small. Maybe Speed Channel?
If there’s any chance of a tour of TG Live in NA, I hope Detroit (or Windsor) can get a date!
Here it is, for those of you that were upset that you missed it. Enjoy
http://www.thesun.co.uk/s ol/homepage/features/2674 954/Top-Gear-stars-interv iew-each-other-for-The-Su n.html
Do Americans really like topgear.
they cant do a topgear live show in america because they would have to make it full of facts and not humourus at all, which then would be funny trying to see them do it.
Yes,Americans love Top Gear and I agree with “ledgends”…Top Gear Live would be forced to be too “politically correct” to be shown on American TV…alas, that’s why I only seriously watch 2 shows…Fox News and Top Gear! Keeps us conservative, non-politically correct viewers happy, without these 2 shows, I would go insane!
Just leave you with a thought everyone…In series 13 (the last one), the compilation intro video in episode one showed a track test of the Corvette ZR1 and the Audi R8 V10, this was then never aired in any of the 7 episodes…strange. Cut for series 14 maybe?
Logistically it would be prohibitively expensive to do Top Gear Live across Canada due to the vast size and small population.
But they could make stops in Toronto or elsewhere in Southern Ontario and pull in the crowds, perhaps not as much as in the UK but well enough. It might also bring in American fans of TG if they’re so inclined.
Canadians have a good mixture of European and US tastes, along with our own and we “get it” And Top Gear is quite popular here with BBC Canada airing Season 13 now whereas in the US I think they’re still in 2006.
If they can do Austrailia and New Zealand then Canada cannot be much of a stretch.