Photo: the Hull Daily Mail
"On tonight's show I become an elephant, Richard feeds me tree bark, and James cleans my trumpet with a small brush." Ladies and gentlemen, this is a spoiler alert: an elephant will replace Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear Series 22 Episode 8. Not a real elephant though, but a full-size sculpture of an elephant.
What's the meaning of this nonsense? We're much obliged to explain why Jeremy the African elephant replaces Jeremy Clarkson in the last episode of the current Top Gear season. After the punch-up incident, Clarkson's contract to present Top Gear was not renewed by the BBC. Still, he did some voiceovers to wrap up the final cut of Top Gear Series 22 Episode 8.
It will be Jeremy Clarkson that will be featured in the 75-minute special episode's cheap SUV and old school roadsters challenges, with Jeremy the elephant to fill the studio bits Clarkson couldn't do. According to an exclusive material published by the Hull Daily Mail, commercial design consultant Andrew Fenton got a call from the production team.
"At first, I thought they just wanted a baby one, but when I told them I also had a life-sized African elephant, they virtually snapped my hand off," declared Fenton. The life-sized model is made from fibre-glass and was transported to the Top Gear hangar studio at the Dunsfold Aerodrome on the day Richard and James filmed the studio bits for the final episode of the show's Clarkson era without Jeremy.
Fenton adds that he doesn't know how much of the screening time will feature Jeremy the elephant because there's a lot of secrecy surrounding this ludicrous commission. And on that bombshell, this thing gives a whole new meaning to "there's an elephant in the room."
It is only fitting for the Top Gear production team to end the show's current format with an idiom for an obvious truth that can't be ignored – with Jeremy ousted from Top Gear, Clarkson, Hammond, and May are within weeks of announcing their new motoring show.
It will be Jeremy Clarkson that will be featured in the 75-minute special episode's cheap SUV and old school roadsters challenges, with Jeremy the elephant to fill the studio bits Clarkson couldn't do. According to an exclusive material published by the Hull Daily Mail, commercial design consultant Andrew Fenton got a call from the production team.
"At first, I thought they just wanted a baby one, but when I told them I also had a life-sized African elephant, they virtually snapped my hand off," declared Fenton. The life-sized model is made from fibre-glass and was transported to the Top Gear hangar studio at the Dunsfold Aerodrome on the day Richard and James filmed the studio bits for the final episode of the show's Clarkson era without Jeremy.
Fenton adds that he doesn't know how much of the screening time will feature Jeremy the elephant because there's a lot of secrecy surrounding this ludicrous commission. And on that bombshell, this thing gives a whole new meaning to "there's an elephant in the room."
It is only fitting for the Top Gear production team to end the show's current format with an idiom for an obvious truth that can't be ignored – with Jeremy ousted from Top Gear, Clarkson, Hammond, and May are within weeks of announcing their new motoring show.
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