'The American' Has Been Dropped By The Grand Tour
After we got our first – and excellent – trailer for the second series of The Grand Tour last week, we can bring you a second piece of news: The American will not be in it.
Mike Skinner, the NASCAR driver whose impossible task was to follow on from the silent Stig, who is officially the property of the BBC and couldn’t migrate to Amazon with the three stooges Clarkson, Hammond and May, has Tweeted that he won’t be involved in the new series.
His was a divisive character right from the get-go, with a lot of people finding him either not funny, deeply awkward or out of balance with the rest of the show. In some cases, all three.
But Skinner himself says that his character ‘wasn’t developed the way he was told.’ Either way, it didn’t work for us, didn’t work for Americans who didn’t appreciate his stereotyping, and hasn’t worked out for the unfortunate Skinner.
It remains to be seen whether there’s going to be a fast lap section of the show at all, because the Eboladrome, the trio’s test track near Swindon, England, doesn’t feature in the show’s first trailer. We’ll have to wait and see.
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Bring Ben Collins to The Grand Tour!
Genuinely not the worst idea.
Logical decision. It coukd happen because as its Amazon and not the BBC
Go one better and have Phil Collins
He was a member of the fifth gear cast a few years back but i always felt like he just wasn’t a natural presenter, seemed like he liked the charisma of the successful presenters, could have been a good reason why he was silent originally. I feel like there are current talented drivers (touring car drivers etc) who would fill the role and add more personality as well
I heard Jenson Button isn’t doing much these days…
Damnit… I found him funny! Way better than the celebrity braincrash sh¡t.
Well, that was a tough one to call. Let’s hope they ditch the brain crash thing as well. It was a joke aimed at the BBC but it ran its course after the second episode of season one. Felt pained after that.
Yeeee Hawwwww … Oh wait
i preffered the stig
he was badass and quiet
like a ninja
I prefered him as well.
They can’t have it as bbc own the stig
Yes he was a bit cheesy but this gives NASCAR an even worse name. As a huge NASCAR fan I find this kind of sad.
I actually found him very entertaining. I also don’t mind Mike Skinner. I remember watching him race in his NASCAR truck.
i saw his run in the tundra at goodwood in real life and it was amazeballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgObvliqFU
Cmon GT!
The Grand Tour needs a Stig!
Thank you, no offense to him but thank you.
Now they just need to drop celebrity brain crash
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