Sorry if this has been said before, JC divorced and lost his mother in the last year. Plus he admitted he was drinking and smoking far too much. He was pretty fucked, all told, (I think I’m allowed to use those words here, being the Pit) and so a hiatus is probably the best the BBC can do for him?
I was all for him keeping on keeping on before but now I think he needs a new project or, at least, another break from TG. I’d like to see him and their team back, soon, probably sooner than he needs. Although he looks about 120 he isn’t actually that old so could take a year or two out and we’d still have the repeats on Dave, which aren’t that different anyway.
So since the BBC fired him and is not renewing his contract, he’s now free to move on?
Because I’d imagine various competitors would be pretty much laying siege to him (and the other two) immediately if not sooner. In fact I find it quite a coincidence that this happened just before new contracts were set to start.
I’m not saying it’s a plot, but it’s just that it happened at almost exactly the right time from a legal/contractual perspective. /shrug
Just wanted to bump this since the “nose punching man” apparently landed a new job on a show called The Grand Tour. Which, debuted last night and by all accounts blows the old show (in it’s current incarnation with a part time radio host presenter) out of the water.
THEYYYYYYYYYYYYY’RE BAAAAAAAAACK!!!
Regards,
-Bouncer-
PS: “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers (the Top Gear theme song) may just be the best opening song for a show ever.
A lot of the Alaska shows are laughable. I’m from there originally, and when I see what they’re calling “bush Alaska”, I just shake my head. The real estate show was really stupid. People wanting remote Alaska properties were looking at large houses built in places with easy access to services; most all of them were on the road system, which is hardly remote, and a lot of the buyers were horrified by such inconveniences as outhouses, septic tanks, and water catchments.
