Chris Evans to lead Top Gear line-up

ElShalimo – Member
It’s the anger that I find really weird.
I like cars but not enough to argue about them

Anger? Have I missed a bit, who’s angry?

I gather a woman is to be politically correctly enrolled in the disaster, no doubt it will be one of those the BBC constantly likes to annoy us well spoken people with, an ‘estuary’ or even worse Liverpudlian accent. I do so hope it fails..

CE is not funny. Lousy jokes. His voice is annoying.

🙄

Anger ?

Nahh, mild annoyance maybe. Don’t go confusing the real world stuff that matters with stuff that doesn’t matter.

My beef is with the BBC and it’s limiting viewpoint and even more limiting choices. But we don’t have a thread on that so I’m in here with a trebuchet throwing bowlders every now and again, from a safe distance.

Yeah, I think we’ve got that you don’t like CE and are in love with JC, chew

Strangely enough I don’t particularly like CE, like TG (before I really went off JC), but think CE on TG might be a good choice.

aracer – Member

Yeah, I think we’ve got that you don’t like CE and are in love with JC, chew

Or you can say you are in love with CE but not me … 😆

Good call, I’m definitely not in love with you.

…but see post immediately above yours

It’s the anger that I find really weird.

It’s not actual anger.

It’s just a few people that like to think they are Charlie Brooker, that’s all.

Not read any of this [ skimmed this page]as I just dont care

Good interview on Radio 4 media show about 30 minutes ago* with CE and the BBC 2 controller. Some of you may wish to miss the second part as she is a woman.

* will be on iplayer

Evans has confirmed that one of the presenters will be female.

Occam’s Razor says Evans, Plato, Perry.

Summary for those of us interested, but CBA listening? 😉

Out of interest, what is your opinion of TG, JC and CE taking over?

I’ll admit when I first read the thread title I misread it as ‘Ched Evans to lead top gear line-up’.

Naturally it got my attention..

I really like Chris Evans, he transformed the Breakfast show, pushed R2 to an all time high in ratings. Huge success for the BBC. Also a genuinely nice bloke, very generous and has raised millions for comic relief.

Which was in 2005, which coincided with me starting to listen to BBC 6Music, not a coincidence, either.
He irritates me on the radio, even more than Keaveny, amazingly, and I don’t see myself watching TG in future.
Because my dad gets The Mail, I look through the magazine on Sundays, especially CE’s car review; he may be a petrolhead, and love cars, but he’s remarkably ignorant about them at the same time, I’ve noticed plenty of factual errors in his reviews, so I’m not encouraged by his taking over.
Oh, BTW ernie, your remark about ginger being a lifestyle choice is a spectacularly stupid and ignorant thing to say, even by your standards as a resident troll.
You really ought to be bloody ashamed of yourself. 🙄

I’ll expect that Chris Evans will probably be accompanied by a woman and a black/Asian person.

As loddrik I too read the title as “Ched Evans” first

Chris Packham is to be new host of Top Gear Deer

I’m gonna be a Top Gear presenter.

Listen to the Chris Evans Radio show in the morning for details.

Listen to the Chris Evans Radio show in the morning

I’d sooner repeatedly slam my nuts in the kitchen drawer, but thanks.

I didn’t suggest a critique of his show, just listen for details on how to become a co host.

Oh, BTW ernie, your remark about ginger being a lifestyle choice is a spectacularly stupid and ignorant thing to say, even by your standards as a resident troll.

Surely he was just angling for a reaction from someone with an irony bypass though?

Summary for those of us interested, but CBA listening?

I am dead excited
I love the show
It will change but not really
we need a woman presenter
I love the show
It was all produced and scripted and i like to script and produce
i have great ideas watch the first show to see them
Roadtrips will remain
Some details about how they contacted him

I am dead excited
I love the show
It will change but not really
we need a woman presenter
I love the show
It was all produced and scripted and i like to script and produce
i have great ideas watch the first show to see them
Roadtrips will remain
Some details about how they contacted him

And, he’s not even a real hamster ginger. Any more, anyway.

Can’t wait for more races with nail-bitingly close finishes. Proper edge of your seat stuff.

TG threads are like catnip to you, aren’t they DD? 😀

Hope all’s well!

Without checking back Flash, I reckon you’ve posted way more on the last few TG threads than I have. Mostly whinging about people whinging about TG IIRC.

CountZero – Member

Oh, BTW ernie, your remark about ginger being a lifestyle choice is a spectacularly stupid and ignorant thing to say…..

🙁

Well I notice that you didn’t pull me up for saying “being short is unBritish”…..so at least that’s something we can agree on 🙂

ernie_lynch – Member
CountZero – Member
Oh, BTW ernie, your remark about ginger being a lifestyle choice is a spectacularly stupid and ignorant thing to say…..

Well I notice that you didn’t pull me up for saying “being short is unBritish”…..so at least that’s something we can agree on

Oh dear maybe I need to interject here to point out us victims of this lifestyle choice of vertical deficiency do have a sense of humour, unlike the other victims of their lifestyle choices, gay, black, ginger and socialist all of which are decidedly un british or there would never have had to be a climate of positive discrimination in their favour.

Meanwhile what do you think my chances are of being selected as a Top Gear presenter, I’ve practised my piece to camera, but I do have issues with pedal reaching on certain car models.

Can’t wait for more races with nail-bitingly close finishes. Proper edge of your seat stuff.

I think the most realistic of any of these was the cross-London bike v tube/lightrailway v boat.

The rest were utter bollocks and tiring as knowing its faked purely for entertainment rather than ‘could it be feasible’? made me switch off.

Hammond suffered abit and had some close misses so I believe he was pegging it too.

What genuinely made me laugh were the various foreign Stigs 😀

One of todays papers claims that Jodie Kidd will be a ‘female element’ as required by Cohen to soften the male domination/atmosphere of the show.

Has he seen her on C5? Cringeworthy.

I quite like Chris Evans.

Yes, of course it needs a female presenter.
Some of us went to mixed schools and actually like women.
🙂

Suzi Perry – not seen the Gadget Show, but she was excellent presenting Moto GP – got stuck in, really knowledgeable.
We all know VBH is superb, Jane Omorogbe is pretty decent too.
There’s enough talented people out there.

Guy Martin has got to be involved somehow – he’s the new Noakes, innit?

Moira Stuart reading the news, obvs.

Meanwhile what do you think my chances are of being selected as a Top Gear presenter, I’ve practised my piece to camera, but I do have issues with pedal reaching on certain car models.

Maybe having your teeth whitened might help 🙂

As for the female presenter, I wonder if there is any relevance in Kirstie Allsopp appearing on TFI last week ❓

VBH – so obvious and so right

Suzi Perry – not seen the Gadget Show, but she was excellent presenting Moto GP – got stuck in, really knowledgeable.

😯

Are you **** insane? She was awful, just spouting idiotic inane pointless drivel, added to the fact that she has the charisma of a turnip, she would be a disaster.

Some of us went to mixed schools and actually like women.

Careful now or he will give us that lecture about how socially awkward we all are around people and of course the womenz

mark90 – Member
Maybe having your teeth whitened might help

What are you saying? Does my breath smell?

It wouldn’t help they turned me down for the police because of the 5’6″ height restriction, then let small women in, and black and gay ones, how fair was that?

Gotta say, be well happy to see VBH in the lineup. She can properly drive, too (in comparison to Clarkson or Evans or – well, any normal person, really).

It wouldn’t help they turned me down for the police because of the 5’6″ height restriction, then let small women in, and black and gay ones, how fair was that?

You need to tick more minority boxes. Have you thought about dyeing you hair ginger? Or choosing a more niche sexuality?

It wouldn’t help they turned me down for the police because of the 5’6″ height restriction, then let small women in, and black and gay ones, how fair was that?

If you really wanted in you could have had gender reassignment surgery, so no sympathy here 😉