Matt LeBlanc eats horse penis in the new Top Gear series

Matt Le Blanc basically underwent a Bushtucker Trial during filming of the new series of Top Gear ^[1].

When Matt and co-hosts Rory Reid and Chris Harris headed to Kazakhstan to drive a London taxi around, they tried some local delicacies, including a very private part of a horse.

"The weirdest thing I saw? I saw Matt try and eat part of a horse that was used in some sort of reproductive process and give up quite early on," Chris told the Daily Star ^[2]. "I ate a half-cooked sheep's ear with a bit of mould on it. I thought I was going to be sick."

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Rory added: "The strangest thing I ate was a pig's face. And brain. And ears."

The upcoming series is the first without former host Chris Evans and the new trio of Matt, Rory and Chris H were unveiled in a funny trailer ^[3] that saw them being forced to sit through an uncomfortable BBC car insurance interview.

Matt has already warned us though that we shouldn't expect instant chemistry between the trio ^[4], saying it even took Jeremy Clarkson and co "a while to build up a rapport".

"You take the three people, put them together in a room and say, 'It's in your interest to get along', and everyone is open to getting along - but it takes a little while to speed up the shorthand," he explained.

"But what's great is we are now getting to a point where we are really starting to click. We are having so much fun together!"

We'll get to see for ourselves how much fun when the 24th series of Top Gear kicks off on Sunday, March 5 at 8pm on BBC Two ^[5].

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