Chris Evans selected to replace Jeremy Clarkson as host of Top Gear
Clarkson’s contract was not renewed after an internal BBC investigation found he physically attacked producer Oisin Tymon following a lengthy verbal tirade.

Broadcaster Chris Evans is to replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of the BBC’s hit motoring show Top Gear, the corporation announced on Tuesday.
The BBC said Evans, 49, had signed a three-year deal to present the world’s most popular factual TV programme – and announced that Clarkson’s former co-presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, would not be returning, after months of speculation.
Clarkson was dropped from the madcap Top Gear programme, which has 350 million viewers per week in 170 countries, after he punched a producer in the face in March.
A BBC spokeswoman said Evans’ co-presenters would be announced “in due course”, with production of the new series starting in the next few weeks.
“I’m thrilled,” said Evans. “Top Gear is my favourite programme of all time, created by a host of brilliant minds who love cars and understand how to make the massively complicated come across as fun, devil-may-care and effortless.
“Of course, it’s anything but and that’s the genius of Top Gear’s global success.