Coming up on Top Gear........

[Malc]

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson and Sunday Times restaurant and television reviewer, AA Gill, were given full VIP protection when they visited British Forces in Baghdad.

The terrified Top Gear frontman spoke glowingly of his whirlwind experience visiting British troops in Iraq. Close support protection was provided by soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish along the infamous 'Route Irish' that runs from Baghdad's International Airport to the International Zone.

Undaunted by their experience, Clarkson and Gill, whose tour of Baghdad included a visit to Saddam Hussein's nuclear bunker, craved further excitement. The pair asked for a demonstration of a 'worst case scenario' and Sergeant Nigel Fell and his team duly obliged by using Clarkson to demonstrate a VIP extraction.


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[MrScruff]

Now thats good TV, he nearly wet himself when they fired blanks at him in Eastmere :)

[Malc]

I wonder how his slipped disc was after being man handled by the RIR.

[Ruledbyjames]

Is there a date on when its being aired?

[Malc]

No official date but I think the next season starts in the UK early next year.

[dacanadianbomb]

Note the winch attached on the tow point already setup on the rover.

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

Still the best programme on TV.

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

Still the best programme on TV.

Agreed, and I love Clarkson, hes a legend.

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

Agreed, and I love Clarkson, hes a legend.

I saw an old one on some satellite channel. The one with the Land rover trying to evade a Challenger 2 tank. Classic stuff.

And one of my favourite quotes (about a car on the 'cool wall')...

"Do you remember when Neville Chamberlain stepped off that plane and waved the peice of paper about? Since then nobody had been as wrong as you are now."

[Bulabash]

Gotta love that show, my favorite car show (the only one i watch ) :) ,