Chris Evans "stepped down" from Top Gear..........who now

[Rangeroverover]

I gather from the young people in my office that Chris Evans has "tweeted" that he is leaving top gear

Great...bring on Chris Harris

[Baryonyx]

That's what his Twitter says.

[RVVUNM]

Probably for the best.

[orangeknight]

imagine this is why: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/04/metropo...

[GTIAlex]

Good.

Chris Harris and Joey would be the best line up.

[eybic]

It's quite "Out there" but how about Jenson Button? Not much going on this year with his F1 so if he does retire I reckon he may go for it.

[Vitorio]

Not to make merry of his "failure" cant imagine him being happy right now, but its for the best!

I say, Harris, Leblanc and Reid, throw in occasional Eddy for fun, job jobbed.

And maybe replace the stig with Sabine, the whole tame racing driver bit has gotten a bit boring/chewed out, just have one of the normal cast do the tests.

[VUB]

Oh dear .... never mind.

[vtecyo]

Flop gear.

[HappyMidget]

Maybe Mrs HM will now start watching it again!

[SteveSteveson]

Vitorio said:

Not to make merry of his "failure" cant imagine him being happy right now, but its for the best!

I say, Harris, Leblanc and Reid, throw in occasional Eddy for fun, job jobbed.

And maybe replace the stig with Sabine, the whole tame racing driver bit has gotten a bit boring/chewed out, just have one of the normal cast do the tests.

Ye, dump the stig. That was an old top gear thing. Get Sabine to do the power laps, perhaps with a bit of in car commentary from her. She is a good driver, but not that good on set piece bits. Also get rid of the interviews. They are rubbish. They have got even more Media Circle Jerk than they used to be.

[IanCress]

"I gave it my best shot" it says in his tweet. I disagree, it felt like he just stepped in to Clarksons shoes and carried on with Top Gear the way it was. Continuing with the old format everyone was getting bored with anyway.

I don't know how much control he had over the program so perhaps it's unfair to criticise him too much, but he didn't give Top Gear the shake up it needed. This series of Top Gear will be remembered just as much as the first series. It will be the one everyone forgets about and the BBC sweep it under the carpet and pretend it never happened.

[addz86]

Good, he was the weak link in what could be a decent program, just got to bin Eddie Jordan now.

[Tonsko]

There is a rumour (from a producer - not TG) that Evans was being a massive dick to people back stage and was caught out by a senior exec.

Didn't Le Blanc pretty much say, 'It's him or me'? Anyway, I quite like him, he seems like a genial sort of chap.

[vtecyo]

Tonsko said:

Didn't Le Blanc pretty much say, 'It's him or me'? Anyway, I quite like him, he seems like a genital sort of chap.

FTFY

[Vitorio]

eybic said:

It's quite "Out there" but how about Jenson Button? Not much going on this year with his F1 so if he does retire I reckon he may go for it.

What? McLaren are finally getting their act together!

[Gargamel]

Well at least he has made a clean breast of the issues

[AH33]

Let it die. There's a show on amazon soon and youtube is taking up the rest of the slack.

Top Gear WAS the presenters. Once they've gone, you've got nothing but nice shots of cars. I can get them elsewhere.

[Tonsko]

vtecyo said:

FTFY

Ha. Took me 3 reads to spot it.

[RS Grant]

Not sure they need to replace him, Harris and Le Blanc could handle it themselves. But if they must replace Evans then rather than trying to have another figurehead; I think it'd be better recruiting another 'equal' who shares the presenting with the same level of involvement as the others.

Couple of options that I think would work:

- Jason Potato: he was watchable on Fifth Gear and seems to have a bit of chat/banter about him as well as being pretty handy behind the wheel too.

- Jenson Button: same reasons as above minus the 'Fifth Gear' bit.

- Me: same reasons as above, minus the 'Fifth Gear' and 'pretty handy behind the wheel' bits.




Cheers,
Grant