BBC puts the skids on Stig’s bid to write autobiography

THE BBC is fighting to keep Top Gear’s mystery driver The Stig from revealing his identity.

BBC puts the skids on Stig’s bid to write autobiography

The corporation has launched a legal bid to stop the faceless show favourite — who speeds around a race track with a blackened visor — writing his autobiography.

BBC lawyers claim he is subject to a confidentiality agreement and unmasking himself would spoil viewers’ enjoyment of the BBC2 programme, which is one of the channel’s most popular.

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