…that for the first nine months of his life, he lived inside the pouch of a Kangaroo… and that until now, he’s been hibernating beneath Ayres Rock. All we know is, he’s called Aussie Stig.
With Top Gear Australia just around the corner (late 2008 they are saying), one question remains to be asked: Who is Aussie Stig? We’ve seen the audition videos of the three human hosts, Charlie Cox, Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati. But what of the infamous yet unidentifiable fourth presenter? The SBS Top Gear website mentions “The Stig’s Aussie cousin”, implying that living among us, there exists yet another of these mysterious creatures. But who is he? I mean, really?
Odds are that our Stig is a Formula 1 driver. But you know what? After reading the Wikipedia article discussing The Stig’s identity, I don’t want to know. Well, to be more accurate, I want to spend my time wanting to know, but I don’t actually want to find out. And while I realise he can’t be referred to as “The Stig” – there is only one original, I just hope they choose something tasteful and don’t call him “The Stig’s Aussie cousin” in every episode.
