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"Jeremy Clarkson has admitted that Top Gear has been damaged by the recent revelations concerning The Stig. The presenter also blasted Ben Collins, who was unveiled as the mysterious racing driver last week after the BBC lost a High Court battle. Clarkson confirmed reports that the motoring programme is to get rid of The Stig, and hinted that they plan to replace him with an entirely new track driver. He told Witney TV: &amp;quot;Put it this way, he&amp;#039;s history as far as we&amp;#039;re concerned. He&amp;#039;s sacked. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve spent the last three weeks doing nothing but trying to work out what to do instead. Trust me, we have many, many thousands of people queuing up to be whatever it is we create.&amp;quot; On the possibility of one of his co-presenters replacing The Stig, Clarkson said: &amp;quot;Richard [Hammond] can&amp;#039;t drive and James [May] is too slow. We&amp;#039;ll get somebody, don&amp;#039;t you worry. Top Gear is damaged but not out.&amp;quot; The 50-year-old added that he was &amp;quot;hurt&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; by the actions of Collins, who he had regarded as a friend. He said: &amp;quot;It was horrible actually, because I liked him and he came round to my house and had drinks, and all that time he was writing a book. &amp;quot;You may remember a film called Wall Street in which Gordon Gekko said greed was good and greed works. It doesn&amp;#039;t. If you&amp;#039;re watching this children, greed is bad.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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