{"id":173634,"date":"2016-07-27T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173634"},"modified":"2016-07-27T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T07:46:45","slug":"50-cent-will-save-top-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/173634-50-cent-will-save-top-gear.html","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent will save Top Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50 Cent said he can save Top Gear if he presents the show, but it will &#8220;cost&#8221; the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I would love to work on Top Gear, I could save that show for sure&#8230; but it would cost them!&#8221; he said, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/50-cent-offers-to-save-top-gear-but-it-will-cost-a-lot-of-money-20160727\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Channel24<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There ain&#8217;t a car I haven&#8217;t owned over the years. My car collection is as good as anybody&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Top Gear was one of the world&#8217;s iconic shows and it&#8217;s a shame it came to this. The show since the old team left has been unrecognisable and if it don&#8217;t get back to where it should be soon then it may never recover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rapper&#8217;s statement follows Chris Evans leaving the show due to poor ratings.<\/p>\n<p>His co-host\u00a0Matt LeBlanc is expected to lead the show when it returns for the next season.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on motoring shows<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/172247-jeremy-clarksons-the-grand-tours-first-day-in-south-africa-photos.html\">Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s The Grand Tour\u2019s first day in South Africa \u2013 Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/168957-dstv-doesnt-have-jeremy-clarksons-new-car-show-the-grand-tour-yet.html\">DStv doesn\u2019t have Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s new car show The Grand Tour\u2026 yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Cent said he can save Top Gear if he presents the show, but it will &#8220;cost&#8221; the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":173636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[38274,36,5462],"class_list":["post-173634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-50-cent","tag-active","tag-top-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173638,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173634\/revisions\/173638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}