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Top Gear has just completed its first season since it lost its previous team, and the leading presenter of the show has announced he will leave.
British radio host Chris Evans has announced on his official and verified Twitter account that he has decided to stop presenting Top Gear.
The presenter says he's given the show “his best shot,” but admits that doing this is just not enough sometimes. On his departure from the show, he did credit the Top Gear team as being “beyond brilliant,” and wished them all the best.
Evans will continue his show on Radio 2, as well as remain (pun intended, Britons) with the teams of CarFest, Children In Need, 500 Words, and other projects he might be invited to join in the future.
The former presenter of Top Gear has not announced who will be his replacement, but we expect the BBC to choose one of the existing hosts to take his role. We would suggest a viewer vote, as we heard these were popular in Great Britain, especially on relevant topics.
The news of Chris Evans’ departure from the Top Gear team was confirmed by the BBC, in the form of a press release. Mark Linsey, Director of BBC Studios, stated that Season 23 of Top Gear achieved over 30 million views in the United Kingdom alone, and that the network has already sold the show in 130 territories worldwide.
The director of the BBC Studios did not comment on Evans’ departure from Top Gear in any way. Instead, his statement paraphrased the Radio 2 host, and underlined the fact that Evans concludes that the “right people remain, on both the production team and presenting team.”
The remaining members of the team will have to “take the show forward, and make it the hit” the BBC wants it to become. You know, like it used to be before a certain gentleman whose name rhymes with “son” punched a producer in the face.
The presenter says he's given the show “his best shot,” but admits that doing this is just not enough sometimes. On his departure from the show, he did credit the Top Gear team as being “beyond brilliant,” and wished them all the best.
Evans will continue his show on Radio 2, as well as remain (pun intended, Britons) with the teams of CarFest, Children In Need, 500 Words, and other projects he might be invited to join in the future.
The former presenter of Top Gear has not announced who will be his replacement, but we expect the BBC to choose one of the existing hosts to take his role. We would suggest a viewer vote, as we heard these were popular in Great Britain, especially on relevant topics.
The news of Chris Evans’ departure from the Top Gear team was confirmed by the BBC, in the form of a press release. Mark Linsey, Director of BBC Studios, stated that Season 23 of Top Gear achieved over 30 million views in the United Kingdom alone, and that the network has already sold the show in 130 territories worldwide.
The director of the BBC Studios did not comment on Evans’ departure from Top Gear in any way. Instead, his statement paraphrased the Radio 2 host, and underlined the fact that Evans concludes that the “right people remain, on both the production team and presenting team.”
The remaining members of the team will have to “take the show forward, and make it the hit” the BBC wants it to become. You know, like it used to be before a certain gentleman whose name rhymes with “son” punched a producer in the face.
Full steam ahead then with Radio 2, CarFest, Children In Need, 500 Words and whatever else we can dream up in the future.
— Chris Evans (@achrisevans) July 4, 2016
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