Top Gear deal set to make Chris Evans the BBC's highest-paid star - The Guardian
The last time Evans tried to combine a weekly TV show with a daily breakfast show was at Radio 1 in the 1990s, which culminated in him asking to take Fridays off to work on Channel 4’s TFI Friday. A friend of Clarkson, Evans will also continue to present a Radio 2 breakfast show, but he is expected to stop co-hosting the Friday edition of BBC1’s magazine series, The One Show, which he has done since 2010. Although the BBC remained... Davie and Tony Hall are both said to be huge fans of Evans with the BBC director general taking a role in finalising the deal over thepast few days. The contract with Evans was only signed on Tuesday once it became clear that the BBC could not conclude a deal with James May and Richard Hammond, Clarkson’s former co-presenters. “He [Evans] didn’t take a lot of persuading but I don’t think he would have done it if Clarkson hadn’t walked away,” said someone close to the BBC. As well as taking over Clarkson’s main presenting role, Evans is expected to get the producer credit given in the past to Andy Wilman, who created the format alongside Clarkson. Source: www.theguardian.com
