I don’t usually go in for online petitions and stuff, but this story is too delicious for me not to flag up: ”Openly gay comedian Julian Clary has backed a petition to make him the new lead presenter of Top Gear.” How much clary knows about cars and therefore how suitable for the job he’d be I don’t know, but he’s apparently a big Top Gear fan. He could bring a new dynamic to the programme, and it’ll certainly be different to what it was under Clarkson. Mind you, I suspect this petition was simply intended to bait the homophobic neanderthals who would no doubt be livid at the idea of their beloved Clarkson being replaced by such a person. I watched top gear as a guilty pleasure on a sunday night, laughing at what those overgrown schoolboys said and did; others, however, actually thought Clarkson was a sensible, practical guy – a very worrying fact indeed.

Either way, replacing Clarkson with Clary might be worth a try. After all, last week we learned that Daniel craig sounds like this (I had to get that in somewhere!). As with any minority, gay people need a higher media profile. On top of that, this might be the fresh star Top Gear needs.