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THEY MAY NOT be on Top Gear anymore, but the former Top Gear lads are still able to cause uproar with their “banter”.
Presenter Richard Hammond is in hot water today for saying that he doesn’t eat ice cream, because he’s “straight”.
In a segment of The Grand Tour (their new show on Amazon Prime) with co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May, Hammond responds to Clarkson saying you couldn’t enjoy a chocolate Magnum inside a particular car, telling him
It’s alright, I don’t eat ice cream. It’s got something to do with being straight.
[Audience laughs]
Clarkson and May look bemused at his answer, with Clarkson asking:
Are you saying everyone who likes ice cream… you’re saying all children are [mutters] homosexual?
[More audience laughing]
Hammond counters:
There’s nothing wrong with it, but a grown man eating an ice cream, you know, it’s a bit… it’s that way rather than that way.
[Makes gestures with hands]
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A spokesman for LGBT equality charity Stonewall told The Guardian that Hammond’s choice of words was “chosen purposefully to mock and belittle”.
Online, the comment got a lot of people are annoyed, and the digs are coming in thick and fast.
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Something to take away from the Richard Hammond ice cream thing is that it happened 5 days ago and nobody noticed because nobody watches it
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Have an ide the thought police are not part of the LGBTQ crowd but are as straight a a rail track. Me thinks the LG crowd are for to busy to be sitting at a keyboard concerned what Hammond and his ilk are saying!
This kind of stuff is why the world is rebelling against this PC nonsense. And why people like Trump get elected. Liberals will be the authors of their own demise.
I’ve watched a couple of episodes and thought they were a tough watch; some really lame jokes and sketches that dragged on and on. There was a skit where they were on an assault course in Jordan and it was one of the worst 20min of tv I’ve seen.
I honestly think a few of the Chris Evans top gear episodes were better than GT. There is a lot to like about how clarkson, may and Hammond do things but the set ups are cringe. I’ll keep watching it for the car stuff but I’ve found myself knocking forward in the Amazon 10 second jumps for big chunks of them…
There’s car Stuff? That must be why they’re at pains to say it’s a motoring show at least once an episode then proceed to show no more cars. It’s been very poor so far, best part of it is the American driver he’s actually had one or two genuinely funny lines.
I think the most offensive part of it is that he thinks he is being funny. The joke was lame. Steve Coogan’s article, from a few years ago, on the top gear boys nailed them. Eating ice cream is gay, ffs, good gag if you are 8.
All the repressed homosexuals in the comments section here, slapping each other on the back for their witty comments wearing their rugby jersey and bottle of bud in hand.
There’s rules to eating ice cream like how wide you open your mouth , making eye contact with people while eating , how fast you eat it and so on. This should all be thought to children from the very start so they don’t turn into raging gays
I don’t think he meant any harm but it was an odd thing to say. Maybe he’s only seen a pink Magnum from the Seven Sins series. Remember those. BTW bring them back please.
@Rosa Parks:
Pure publicity stunt.
I watched it and the whole thing looked staged, Clarkson teeing it up for him with the Magnum reference.
Then the ‘Evil Ogre’ Jeremy calling him out on it and appealing to the crowd.
Ridiculous.
I can’t believe anyone could take this nonsense seriously enough to be offended. I can’t work out who are the bigger fools, Hammond for uttering such palpable nonsense , or the self righteous LGBT (not Q too?) group who were prepared to send out an “outraged” press release about it. It’s a pretty close call.
It has to be one of life’s greatest mystery, Richard Hammond being considered to have any talent. The only bit of good news regarding clarkesons departure from Top Gear was his little side kick going as well. Completely annoying, clueless and vomit enducing to listen too and watch it’s beggars belief he remains on the team now on Amazon. His latest comment is no doubt part of a drive to reminds us he is still around, sadly.
The Amazon Prime free trial month must have ended so they had to pull a stupid stunt to generate some publicity, now that they don’t have the BBC to rely on for income.
I watched it the other night and had a feeling there would be a fall out afterwards. Throughout the series they are pushing boundaries on what they can say because its internet based and I’m guessing is not subject to the same broadcasting rules as terrestrial television. The statement about eating ice cream being gay is one thing but the whole conversation that followed wasn’t even funny and I’m sure they only carried on with it to be controversial. The show in itself is quite OK but the unscripted sections can be quite poor . Frankie Boyle is controversial but is funny. These guys are trying to be the same but fail, in my opinion.
What sort of a gobda is he. And anyway why are people paying attention to what this knobend says anyway.what a ridiculous comment to make.I just don’t get it,do you?
The 3 of them are the biggest idiots who believe every they say is funny.. and whatever either of them come out with will be accepted… why anyone bothers to watch them is amazing. ..clowns
Hammond’s words are commonplace for young people in the playground or classroom, despite the fact that he chose them very purposefully and is, apparently, a ‘grown man’.
So thanks, Richard. Thanks for mocking and belittling our community.
@Bob Moore:
Now that sure is a “gay” as in funny comment! So it is not only feminazis who suffer from a persecution complex and “Victimhood”? Grow up. The word gay is not owned by the LGBT crowd. Jasus you lot are a bundle of laughs! Happy New Year, hope it’s a gay one!
Kind of comment that suits him since he’s been going through a mid-life crisis for most of his life. Now there’s an example of someone who lives his life according to his own countless insecurities.
I was out drinking years ago and there was a group of 20somethings and every third word they said was gay… nearly, it seemed to have become part of daily language for some reason?
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