Хмммм... А на самом деле еще не все так однозначно. Вот исходный текст:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...-started-on-YouTube-more-than-a-year-ago.html Top Gear: Rumours that Ben Collins was The Stig started on YouTube more than a year ago Rumours about the identity of Top Gear's anonymous stunt driver The Stig – unmasked as Ben Collins this week – have been circulating on YouTube for more than a year. In August 2007 a slide show alternating pictures of Ben Collins with The Stig was uploaded on the video-sharing website, suggesting they were one and the same, and received more than half a million hits.
Then in December 2007 another fan uploaded a
clip of The Stig speaking to an interviewer in his white suit and helmet disguise, then cuts to Ben Collins talking in a very similar accent.
The video, entitled
The Stig Real Identity = Ben Collins Top Gear, has also been seen more than half a million times and has attracted 790 comments.
A third,
posted on January 11 2008 , shows a montage of photographs of Collins The Stig with the song Who's That Guy? from Grease 2 playing in the background.
However, not all fans were on the right tracks in guessing The Stig's identity. Some seemed sure that he was Lewis Hamilton while others thought he could be Spanish Formula One driver Fernando Alonso.
Each episode of Top Gear, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, features The Stig test driving a number of cars but his identity has – until now – been a closely guarded secret.
Collins, 33, is believed to be the second Stig after the first, racing driver Perry McCarthy, was axed from the show after he revealed his identity in an autobiography in 2002.
Fans had speculated that his replacement could be a well-known figure such as former Formula One world champion Damon Hill.
It was also rumoured that The Stig is actually a number of different racing drivers.
Collins, from Bristol, was unmasked as The Stig after he went to a photographic studio to commission a series of prints of The Stig in action and told the owners who he was.
A builder also told a newspaper that he had seen The Stig's distinctive white disguise in Collins' house.
Collins began his racing career in 1994 and went on to race in Le Mans and NASCAR. He also featured as a stuntman in the latest James Bond film "Quantum of Solace".
BBC insiders are understood to be annoyed his identity has been revealed. One told The Times: "It is ------ annoying. You wouldn't write a piece saying that Santa didn't exist."
Officially a corporation spokesman said: "We never comment on speculation as to whom or what The Stig is."
То бишь все опять на уровне слухов. Официального подтверждения так и нет. А с топгировцев еще станется пригласить Коллинза на ближайший выпуск и поставить его рядом со "Стигом"
Но если его таки уволят, предлагаю "зеленого Стига" - Кейичи Цучию
