This is not a hoax. After Chris Evans revealed that a female presenter is in the cards for new format Top Gear, the 49-year-old media personality now announces that he wants to hire a co-presenter. That Top Gear co-presenter could be you and there’s not much in the way of applying for this dream job other than being over 16 years of age. Where do we sign?
About that, Evans says to keep an eye on his Twitter account because the address for where to send applications will be posted tomorrow. Requirements? Other than the 16-year-old doorway, the ginger man highlights that all applicants must be “male, female, old, young, it doesn't matter. The one thing that does matter is that you've got to have a real appetite for cars, and you've got to know something about cars.”
Best thing of all, Chris isn’t looking for people with EXP points at presenting shows on TV. All you have to be is a full-on car nut. After all, Richard Hammond and James May got on the Top Gear bandwagon by auditioning. If you want to have a go at bettering their performances on the motoring show, then dust off your video camera and start filming a 30-second clip.
As Evans told Top Gear UK magazine, all applicants have to send a homemade video no longer than 30 seconds with you from the waist up, talking to the camera. Another detail that’ll make you jump with joy is that people from all over the world can apply; this opportunity isn’t reserved to UK residents only.
Until Chris publishes the terms and conditions and address where you should send your videos, try to visualize yourself talking in front of the camera. Visualize that harder. Now you have to imagine that you’re Chris Evans and you’re watching that video. Is anything you’ve said relevant to Evans, the Top Gear line of conduct and the global profile of the petrolhead? Good! That means you have a chance to present Top Gear.
If you make it on the shortlist, the most camera-confident of applicants will be invited to audition live to Chris Evans and the crème de la crème of the Top Gear production team. And on that bombshell, Evans also announced that there will be more motorbikes on Top Gear. Now is the perfect time to start practicing your own delivery of the Clarksonian "... in the wooorld!"
Address for where to send videos will be announced tmr.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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