Top Gear's James May to 'live in Lego house'

Top Gear's James May to 'live in Lego house'
Top Gear's James May to 'live in Lego house' (Image credit: BBC)

Top Gear co-presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house - entirely out of Lego bricks. As part of his new series James May's Toy Stories, he is planning to construct a two-storey dwelling in the middle of the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey. And members of the public will be invited to help him on a 'building day' next weekend. The house - which will reportedly comprise three million Lego bricks, will be life-sized with a staircase, shower and toilet - and May says he plans to live in it for a few days once it is complete. "I've got a man working on a flushing Lego lavatory," he said. "We think it's possible. "Things like power supply, sanitation and plumbing coming into the house are as they could be for a real building. Everything within my Lego house must as far as possible be Lego." The challenge comes just two months after May built a garden entirely out of Plasticine, which won an award at London's Chelsea Flower Show.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.