{"id":5028,"date":"2010-08-23T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2012-01-12T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:39:43","slug":"unmasking-the-stig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/unmasking-the-stig\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmasking &#8220;The Stig&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court case will decide whether HarperCollins can publish a book that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-11058504\" target=\"_blank\">reveals the identity<\/a> of <em>Top Gear<\/em>&#8216;s anonymous driver:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Publisher HarperCollins is in a legal dispute with the BBC over a book that reveals the identity of <em>Top Gear<\/em>&#8216;s The Stig, BBC News understands.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides appeared in London&#8217;s High Court on Monday after the BBC confirmed it was trying to halt its publication.<\/p>\n<p>The Stig regularly takes to the track on the BBC Two show, but never removes his helmet on screen.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC says the publication of the book breaches contractual and confidentiality obligations.<\/p>\n<p>HarperCollins declined to give any official comment.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute comes amid suggestions from several newspapers speculating that the character&#8217;s true identity is former Formula Three driver Ben Collins, based on the financial reports of his company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court case will decide whether HarperCollins can publish a book that reveals the identity of Top Gear&#8216;s anonymous driver: Publisher HarperCollins is in a legal dispute with the BBC over a book that reveals the identity of Top Gear&#8216;s The Stig, BBC News understands. Both sides appeared in London&#8217;s High Court on Monday after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,9,28],"tags":[111,777,101],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-law","category-media","tag-cars","tag-topgear","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1j6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/13029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}