Last night Chris Evans was announced as Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear successor, following Clarkson’s fracas with a BBC producer. However, this doesn’t mean Clarkson won’t be appearing on the BBC anytime soon.
In fact, despite previously calling those at the corporation ‘f—ing b—–ds’, Clarkson has already made a star appearance on BBC2 this lunchtime as part of their tennis coverage. Clearly not too downhearted by Evans’ appointment, the former Top Gear presenter decided to use his free time to take in some tennis at Queen’s.
This led to some scintillating commentary from the BBC tennis pundits as they tried to avoid the topic of Clarkson’s untimely departure:
Andrew Cotter: Big names here as well, Jeremy looks like he knows what he’s talking about.
Peter Fleming: Do you think he knows what he’s talking about?
Andrew Cotter: Car engines, just cars. cars, cars. Or not anymore, Chris Evans is taking over.
Mr S suspects it was a wise move to leave the conversation there and get back to the match at hand.
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