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Top Gear: fake Stig tracked down

Top Gear: the Stig
Top Gear: the Stig. Photograph: BBC

The mystery of the fake Stig has been solved. Readers may remember the BBC was flummoxed after a viewer had his picture taken with a chap who looked like Top Gear's mystery driver – white jumpsuit, white helmet – but wasn't. Turns out it was a chap on his stag do, reports the Sun, whose mates bought him the outfit for £50 on eBay. Who knew it was so easy to look like the Stig? Jeremy Clarkson outfits are even cheaper to put together, Monkey hears.

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