Monday, July 4, 2016

Chris Evans makes “Top Gear” and police investigate sexual assault – Journal News

Ana Filipe Silveira

the presenter Chris Evans has announced that leaves the BBC the format “Top Gear” due to low audiences. The Metropolitan Police confirmed investigations into alleged sexual assaults that may involve the presenter.

Chris Evans will leave to present the magazine motorsports BBC. “I’ll leave the ‘Top Gear’. I tried my best, but sometimes this is not enough. The team [production] is the best, I wish you all the best,” he wrote the presenter in his Twitter page, adding that remains ahead of other projects it has with the British public station.

at issue are the audience. The episode was issued on Sunday, the last of the season, had 1 900 spectators and made 8.7% share, a lower result than any previous program presented by Jeremy Clarkson. “Stay out is the best I can do to help the cause,” he cites “The Telegraph”.

Mark Linsey, BBC director Studio, confirmed the exit. “He firmly believes that the right people will remain [in shape], both the production team as the other presenters, and that will take the program forward and make it the success that we want to be,” he said.

These are not the only news about the host early this week. According to the same newspaper, the Evans exit announcement comes after also this morning, the Metropolitan Police of London area (PM) have confirmed investigations into an alleged sexual assault after the presenter has been accused of grabbing the breasts a colleague in the 1990s.

“the accusation was made by a woman against a man, and refers to incidents in Tower Hamlets in the 1990s,” said the PM to “the Telegraph “which states that the program that Evans had at that time,” the Big Breakfast “, was recorded there. Last May, the website news Heat Street advanced that Evans was being accused by a woman who worked with sexual assault. Evans denied that moment the accusation, calling it “ridiculous.”

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