It has been reported that a certain new Top Gear host (ahem, Matt LeBlanc) was seen doing donut wheel spins near a Cenotaph in London, and onlookers were not impressed at all.
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Matt LeBlanc in the passenger seat of Ken Block’s Hoonigan Mustang in the streets of London.
The wedding party got a wave and a quick look in as they drove through the City of London.
The new series of the BBC Two show is due to start in May after fears for its future when Jeremy Clarkson was axed for punching a producer of the show.
However, after photographs emerged of the pair performing stunts in their high-powered Ford Mustang near the 95-year-old memorial, Colonel Richard Kemp has since urged BBC bossed to not air the footage out of respect.
Col Kemp, who retired from the Armed Forces in 2006, added: “It beggars belief that they were ever allowed to film here”.
“So on behalf of the Top Gear team and Matt, I would like to apologise unreservedly for what those images seem to portray”, he concluded.
He added: “Jeremy Clarkson was certainly no saint but I don’t believe he would have ever performed a stunt in such bad taste”.
A Top Gear spokesman said: “The filming took place a respectful distance away from the cenotaph and it was all agreed with Westminster Council in advance”.
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has scolded Top Gear host Chris Evans for making a racket near Downing Street and distracting him from writing the Budget.
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Rory Reid, Sabine Schmitz, Chris Harris and Eddie Jordan are set to appear as guests hosts on the motor vehicle series.
