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"Top Gear presenter James May has claimed that he doesn&amp;#039;t consider himself a celebrity and has ruled out ever appearing on a reality show like Strictly Come Dancing. The BBC star, who is hosting a special episode of Toy Stories over Christmas, said that losing his testicles would be preferable to appearing on the BBC dance show.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not interested in being a celebrity. I&amp;#039;m not sure I am anyway. I&amp;#039;m just a TV presenter,&amp;quot; May told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t give a pig&amp;#039;s arse about that sort of celebrity stuff. I think I was actually asked to take part in Strictly one year, but I&amp;#039;d rather castrate myself if I&amp;#039;m telling the truth and I might as well if I did it.&amp;quot; The new Toy Stories features the presenter attempting to fly a toy glider 22 miles across the channel to France and May is open about the fact that the project did bring him to tears. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m very pleased with it all and I find it strangely moving. I tried not to get emotional because it will spoil my reputation, but I loved it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s something I&amp;#039;d thought about since I was a kid and also because it is actually quite a small plane - it&amp;#039;s a big model, but a tiny plane - it looks beautiful. It&amp;#039;s so stunning and heroic to see this humble thing made out of wood, achieving something so great. There&amp;#039;s no reason it shouldn&amp;#039;t, it&amp;#039;s a toy plane, it&amp;#039;s what they do, but it just looks stunning. &amp;quot;It is genuine joy on my part. We were very short of time on this project and my emotions are all real. We had to deal with wind and pissing rain, we couldn&amp;#039;t wait to shoot on another day. It all worked and we basically reverted to 12-year-olds.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Jeremy Clarkson signs for three more series of &amp;#039;Top Gear&amp;#039; May also stressed that the project wasn&amp;#039;t an attempt to complain about modern toys and technology available to entertain kids. &amp;quot;I think everything is better today. I think we always forget that the old days were awful. Even the &amp;#039;90s were awful,&amp;quot; he laughed. &amp;quot;This is a TV show. I would never go around saying, &amp;#039;Bah, kids these days&amp;#039;. I don&amp;#039;t hold by that at all. I&amp;#039;m sure if I was a kid today, I&amp;#039;d love computer games, racing games and flight simulators. I&amp;#039;m also certain that when I was young with my Airfix kits there were old men complaining, &amp;#039;Ah we had to carve it out of a bit of wood in my day&amp;#039;.  &amp;quot;And their parents probably complained that they had a pen knife to carve the wood. &amp;#039;We had to do it with our teeth in our day&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s all b*llocks, isn&amp;#039;t it.&amp;quot; James May&amp;#039;s Toy Stories: Flight Club airs on Sunday, December 23 at 9.30pm on BBC Two. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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