Chris Evans quits Top Gear amid record low audience
BBC Top Gear presenter Chris Evans has quit the show after it ended the season with record-low ratings, the Daily Mail reported.
An average 1.9 million viewers tuned into Sunday night’s episode of the motoring show – 8.6% of the available audience, papers in the UK reported.
Sunday evening’s Top Gear was about 800,000 down from the previous week’s average of 2.7 million, and just over half the number that watched the series launch.
Recent reports claimed Evans may be in trouble with the new entertainment lead at the BBC, Kate Phillips, who allegedly summoned him to talk over his bad behaviour.
The Sun reported that Evans had annoyed a lot of the show’s crew with his behaviour and “by being a control freak”.
Evans leaving the show comes amid an accusation of sexual assault against him for allegedly grabbing the breasts of a female colleague in the 1990s, reported the Telegraph.
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