“When you become a TV star, and he turns up everyday and I’m saying to him ‘We need to rip the engine out of that Corvette’ and he’s going ‘I don’t need to do that, I’m a TV star!’” – Mike Brewerīrewer said that while Edd would moan and argue, eventually he’d get to work and the job would be done – but the issue was how long the process would take to get there.Īccording to Edd, his decision to leave Wheeler Dealers was due to the production company’s decision to ‘dumb down’ the very thing which made the show successful in the first place – in-depth coverage of the fixes performed on the cars in the workshop. He was a mechanic, and then he became a TV star.” “Edd became a TV star, rather than… Edd forgot his focus really on what he was there to do. “It’s much more back to where it used to be because Ant is a real mechanic,” Brewer said. Despite the move, the show was renewed for season 14, with former “For The Love of Cars” host Ant Anstead taking over spanner-spinning duties.īrewer praised Anstead’s superior work ethic in the video, while also suggesting that Edd’s problem was that he let his newfound fame go to his head. I think we all are,” he added.Įarlier this year Edd announced he was leaving Wheeler Dealers after 13 seasons on the show. “He wanted to go off and do another show anyway, and I’m waiting for his new show to appear. So they gave him the option to leave, and he took it.” “And when he did some very bad things it meant that Discovery channel just couldn’t work with him. “He did some very bad things,” Brewer said. In the video, filmed at the Klingberg Vintage Motor Car Festival in Connecticut, Brewer says Edd turned out to be ‘not gracious’. Footage of Mike Brewer has popped up on YouTube this week, in which he revealed details as to how Edd China left Wheeler Dealers.
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