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Ricky Gervais has ruled himself out of being the new host of Top Gear.

Despite reports linking him to taking over from sacked Jeremy Clarkson, The Office star said he feels he would not bring much to the role.

Ricky says one of the key reasons he will not appear is his clothing as much as his driving.

The Derek creator joked he couldn’t emulate the dress sense made famous by Clarkson.

Ricky said: “I cannot even drive, and I very rarely wear a jacket with jeans and brogues. So I wouldn’t fit in.”

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Laughing, he added: “Top Gear - never has a show been so wrongly named. I couldn’t do it.”

The 53-year-old did admit though his own choice of clothes is not that impressive either.

He actually used most of his own clobber to kit out middle-aged care worker Derek in his Channel 4 hit sitcom.

“Half of Derek’s costume is mine. I will tell you a secret - we got the cardigan from costume, but the first day of filming I turned up in a pair of trainers and blue sweatpants and I said these might as well be Derek’s."

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Ricky’s currently working on a new comedy film Special Correspondents with Netflix, a company he feels is “changing the world”.

“It is really,” he added. “Recently the film industry has been sequels and superheroes and then Sundance.

"And there is this thing in Hollywood now that for all films they do focus groups they make sure all films are homogenised and safe.

"They tell you everything in the trailer so that the maximum number of people go to see it so that it is not taken out of cinemas in the first week."

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He added: "Something like Netflix is going to change that - just like TV changed that.

“Some of the best shows, they wouldn’t make it as films as they are an acquired taste and risk, so I think we are going to see more director's cuts than ever before.”