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'Loves to be seen!' Jeremy Clarkson says Amber Heard wanted Top Gear stint in bid for fame
Amber Heard, 36, is currently a feature of headlines due to her ongoing defamation trial with actor Johnny Depp, 58. Jeremy Clarkson, 62, has recalled in his column how he met the actress and how she had wanted her stint on Top Gear in an effort "to be seen".Amber appeared on Top Gear in 2011 when she joined an array of celebrities to try to get the fastest lap in a reasonably priced car.Although fairly unknown at the time, she appeared on the show to promote her then-new film Drive Angry starring Nicholas Cage.Recalling her appearance on the show, Jeremy said: "Back in 2011, Amber Heard’s people called to ask the Top Gear producers if she could be a Star In A Reasonably Priced Car."Immediately the producer replied: 'Amber who?'"They explained that she was a lesbian petrolhead who loved muscle cars, so we signed her up straight away."And then, on the day she was to be filmed, her people said that she wasn’t really a lesbian and that she couldn’t drive a manual."He continued: "On the track, she turned out to be slower than the BBC’s then political correspondent, Nick Robinson, and former Sun Page 3 girl Peta, 23, from Essex."Still, she got what she wanted.