James May and Richard Hammond are to stay on Top Gear! Brilliant news! I was worried, BBC top spods weren’t as worried… and now no-one needs worry at all.
According to The Sun (okay, not the most trustworthy of sources, but I’m happy to believe them on this one), the petrol presenting pair have agreed new deals, which will see Hammond’s pay go from £15,000 per show, and May’s £10,000 per show, go to somewhere between £20,000 and £25,000.
“Their agents wanted them to get a larger slice of the pie but the BBC only had a finite amount it was prepared to offer,” one insider is quoted as saying. “The Beeb and the agents have finally found some common ground and contracts should be signed within days.”
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Im afraid it was all ludicrous, Hammond and May never planned on leaving, just upping the pay a little for there new found international fame, they are worth more. Its that ‘tabloidian’ effect of over exaggerating everything again