Top Gear sprays LGBT pride flag on cars used in Brunei filming.

Freddie Flintoff with the resprayed cars. He said: ‘We would never have filmed in Brunei had the law been announced beforehand.’ (Photograph: Jeff Spicer/PR)

Support for LGBT rights has come from a surprising quarter after Top Gear sprayed two cars used in filming in Brunei in rainbow colours in opposition to the country’s threat to make homosexuality punishable by stoning to death…