Little known fact about the Clarkson Whitby Marlboro incident.
Posted by Most-Sport5264@reddit | thegrandtour | View on Reddit | 16 comments
Most GT fans know about the infamous Marlboro incident - while in Whitby, the team stopped at a fish and chip store for a takeaway, and while they were in the restaurant someone got into Clarkson's car and stole a pack of Marlboro cigarettes off his dashboard.
However, the next part of the story is not as well publicised. The GT road crew were staying the night in a pub close by, and no-one knows if they knew it (and were in on the prank) or not, but the simple fact is the partner of the landlord of that pub was the person who stole the Marlboros. To dig it in, he actually changed the name of the pub's Wi-Fi to 'I STOLE CLARKSONS MARLBOROS' for the night.
awigglycat@reddit
You made that up
Most-Sport5264@reddit (OP)
Made it up?
https://x.com/jeremyclarkson/status/239109373333499905
awigglycat@reddit
So you took a tweet from 2012 and made up a story about some random changing a wi fi name.
Yes, you made it up
Most-Sport5264@reddit (OP)
'i took a tweet from 2012 and made up the rest'.
The pub in question is called 'The Fleece', which is still trading today. The landlady was Carla Smith, who I happened to be good friends with hence how I knew about this. She passed away from cancer in 2022, only 2 months after retiring. Here is her FB profile - https://www.facebook.com/carla.smith.9465
Enjoy your burn.
The only thing you got right was I got the series wrong, yes it was Top Gear not TGT, I thought the split was a lot earlier than it actually was......
awigglycat@reddit
Your made up story got deleted. Lol
awigglycat@reddit
Your using a 'good friends" Death to "burn" People online because of your made up story. That's fucked up.
I'm okay without looking at a dead persons Facebook. What the fuck man? Great way to show the deceased some respect.
"Enjoy your burn" What a cringe thing to say.
bigguyinthesky@reddit
Fish and chip store
Alternative-Pie1329@reddit
Hey man do you have a drinking glass so I can have some soda in this fish and chip store? I'm pretty darn tired from horse back riding all day!
Constant-Map7687@reddit
What surprised me most of all is Clarkson paying for his own food.
Didn't he later hit a producer, oisin tymon because there was no hot food made avaliable for him?
ShampooandCondition@reddit
tenuous link of the day.
Aceman1979@reddit
Brilliant.
Funtsy_Muntsy@reddit
Clarkson - “smokes, Wilman, let’s go”
Gizm082@reddit
Good read! :)
zontral@reddit
Wow great lol
Technical-Job-3994@reddit
I'd never heard if the incident in the first place. Pretty funny
Academic_Coffee4552@reddit
No way!! Cool anecdote