After the previous episode of The Grand Tour,
I was a little surprised that there hadn't been any complaints about the sex-toy content of it.
Now we have some - only it is from the next episode and they are about Richard Hammond making a comment about how if a man eats an ice-cream - he is probably gay.
There has been a "back-lash".
I'm not on Twitter so I didn't notice it.
The BBC did. But they were probably more miffed at his little dig about slowing down when he drove a Mustang past The Cenotaph. The rest of the media also noticed it though, right from The Independent through to the Daily Fail.
The last time Hammond was in trouble was when he insulted the Mexicans - but that soon blew over when they realised HE WAS ONLY JOKING.
Just like in this case.
We all know Jeremy and Co. thrive on controversy - I'm surprised nothing has come up before this during the last two years of filming. But the people making the most noise about this one seem to be those who don't know the show and certainly don't watch the show. It's like Russell Brand, the Mexicans and every other Clarkson incident before and since. I don't complain when Katie Hopkins spouts her latest piece of attention-seeking bile in The Sun - because I wouldn't touch it. So she can say what she likes to people gullible enough to believe what it says in there. If she does start to pollute things I would watch or read, then I would complain.
But let's do a quick unscientific experiment to see if eating an ice-cream:
- specifically a Magnum like they were talking about - could be construed as homosexual behaviour. I shall use Google Images Search.
There are plenty of pictures of sexy women with Magnums, what if you look for "Man eating Magnum". This is the first picture you get:
Well, he doesn't look particularly gay, here is the second picture:
OK, well here is a Vauxhall Magnum, does that look gay?
No, of course it doesn't. And neither does this picture of Magnum PI.
