Evans makes “Top Gear.” Police investigating sexual assault – Daily News – Lisbon

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

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,” wrote the presenter in his Twitter page, adding that stays 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 percent of share , a lower result than any program previously presented by Jeremy Clarkson . “Stay out is the best I can do to help the cause,” cites the 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,” he explained the police to the Telegraph , which points out that the program that Evans had at the time, the Big Breakfast , was recorded there. Last May, the site 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.”