Show will face no further investigation into Matt LeBlanc’s controversial Cenotaph stunt
The BBC motoring show was accused of being hugely disrespectful by viewers
UNDER fire Top Gear will face no further investigation into its controversial Cenotaph smoking car stunt, the BBC Trust has announced.
Chris Evans, who has since stepped down from the motoring show, apologised after co-host Matt LeBlanc and rally driver Ken Block were filmed doing 'doughnuts' close to the historic war memorial.
The corporation said at the time that the Cenotaph was never intended to feature in the programme and offered its “sincere apologies” to those offended.
However, furious viewers complained the Beeb had attempted to “shrug off” their concerns with a "cut and paste apology"
The statement from the broadcaster read: "The Cenotaph was at no point intended to feature in the programme and therefore will not appear in the final film.
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"However, we are acutely aware of how some of the images in the press look via the angle and distance they were taken and for which, as Chris Evans has already said, we sincerely apologise.
"We would like to make it absolutely clear that the Top Gear team has the utmost respect for the Cenotaph, what it stands for, and those heroic individuals whose memory it serves so fittingly."
Evans apologised "unreservedly" for what was deemed a “gravely disrespectful” stunt.
He made it very clear that he was not involved in any way.
