For those of you who don’t know, Chris Evans – one of the new hosts for BBC’s TopGear – also works a morning radio broadcast show on BBC Radio 2. We’ve already heard the reports that Evans was struggling to work more than four hours on the TopGear set, but now, it looks like things are getting even worse.
A source that is reportedly from BBC told The Sun that Evans is taking out his frustrations on the BBC staff. At one point, Evans apparently yelled “so viciously that [a] producer was reduced to tears, and an engineer had to tell him to stop.” A source also told The Sun that “The Radio 2 show is the country’s most popular. But Chris is turning up exhausted and miserable, and his staff has noticed a huge difference. Top Gear’s a full-time job, but Radio 2 involves waking at dawn every day. It’s probably no surprise he seems close to breaking point.”
As you would expect, BBC has denied the claims and said Evans has “displayed even greater commitment and professionalism.” The reason behind his problems in the past has been that he’s waking up “at the crack of dawn” five days a week to host the three-hour radio show, then departing to work on TopGear. As a star in both enterprises, Evan’s claims it is difficult to keep up. The Sun’s BBC source had even more to say about the situation, however, saying “Chris’s ego is out of control, and he’s behaving far worse than Clarkson ever did – which is the opposite of what the Top Gear change was meant to create.”
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