Friday, 01 May 2015 16:12

Cashflow tight?

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The fall of former Top Gear big mouth Jeremy Clarkson has been well publicised, but his two co-hosts have been noticeably silent about their future with the BBC. 

According to classicdriver.com the blameless Top Gear hosts James May and Richard Hammond are “rapidly cashing in assets” including numerous motorbikes and a heavily modified Land Rover Defender with a 230hp V8 engine, nicknamed ‘Bigfoot’. Impending unemployment and poverty obviously don’t suit these pampered stars.

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