According to reports which surfaced on The Daily Mirror, BBC became fed up with all the huss and fuss around Collins' persona and decided to let him go. And, apparently, his shoes have already been filled by a new guy.
The proof the British source has for these claims? A set of photos which, placed one next to the other, show that Ben Collins has no way of being the Stig. One of the photos show the Stig while on location with a BBC team at the Nurburgring while another shows Ben Collins while enjoying a quality family time some 1,100 miles away (1,770 km).
There's no telling who the new Stig might be, but of course, BBC is keeping this a carefully guarded secret as well. On the other hand, the mess surrounding the Stig story which hit the British media not only these past two weeks has deepened the characters' mystery even deeper.
For us, the two photos showing the two embodiments of presumably the same person so far away from one another means, more or less, nothing. As we said, BBC regards the Stig as one of their best assets. As Andy Wilman, the producer of the Top Gear show said the Stig belongs to BBC.
This pretty much means the network can always claim Collins was not really the Stig, despite some circumstantial evidence which surfaced last week. And even if he was, he might have no way of proving it.
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