News about Perry McCarthy
The Stig's new gig! Following Freddie Flintoff's horrific crash, Top Gear viewers are only now aware of the legendary driver's surprising career change, according to BBC AXED
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November 21, 2023
Top Gear followers have found The Stig's surprising career change after the show's cancellation that nearly killed host Freddie Flintoff. Perry McCarthy, the original incarnation of the legendary character from 2002-2003, has now left the track and embarked on a career as a motivational and after-dinner speaker. I'm an ex-formula-one racer, and I'm the original Stig on BBC Top Gear,' to tell the London Speaker Bureau.
According to Top Gear's The Stig, the BBC should not halt show due to the crash that caused Freddie Flintoff to resign
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March 25, 2023
Top Gear's original Stig, Stephen Flintoff (left and right), Corey, Holly, and Rocky) departed as a host. After the corporation announced that 'it would be inappropriate to restart' filming series 34, Perry McCarthy (inset top), who played the first iteration of the elusive helmet-clad racing driver, said the BBC should rather learn from its probe. Top Gear's high-speed and high adrenaline stunts face being tamed after Flintoff, 45, left his role as co-host after an accident while filming at a testing track on December 13 last year. According to reports, the former cricketer was 'luck to be alive' after the car he was riding - an open-topped three-wheel 130mph Morgan Super 3 (inset below), which doesn't have air bags - flipped over at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey. He was airlifted to a hospital with facial injury and broken ribs.