Yahoo Autos Chris Evans Calls Matt LeBlanc "The Perfect Torso" for "Top Gear's Limbs"
Chris Evans, the recently-hired new main host of BBC's Top Gear who even more recently quit the show after just one season, has some thoughts about how Top Gear will do without him. And, uh, about Matt LeBlanc's torso.
Shown above: Chris Evans sipping wine and sending texts in a London alley in June.
In his review of the new Mercedes-Benz S 500 cabriolet for The Sunday Mail, Evans speaks out about his departure from Top Gear, and how he thinks the show will do with Matt LeBlanc as the presumptive new leader of the now five-host team.
Despite the rumors of bad blood between Evans and LeBlanc as they filmed the now-finished Season 23, Evans's appraisal of his work with the new Top Gear team is entirely rosy. "So was that a dream or did I really get to work on Top Gear for a whole year?" Evans writes. "Actually it was both. What a complete honor, privilege and a pleasure, And yes, I promise, I really did try to make the best show I possibly could.
"Some things, however, simply don't work out. It seems I may well have been a square peg in a round hole," Evans says of his six-episode tenure as the lead host of BBC's most popular show ever.
Plus, I got to share the screen with Joey from Friends! May I just take a few lines to assure you what a total mensch and extreme petrolhead Matt LeBlanc is. For me, he is the man. He is the captain Top Gear truly needs going forward, the perfect torso for the rest of TG's limbs. Not only does he eat, sleep, breathe and dream engines, propshafts and trail-braking, but the overwhelming quality that struck me about him is that he's just such a pro. The whole time I worked with him, he never once looked at the clock, was never late on set, knew his lines inside out and back to front and, most importantly on such an intense production, he always had time for everyone, especially the crew. The simple truth is he and Top Gear were made for each other.
Kind words from the departing host. Let's hope that the new, re-revamped Season 24 holds more promise now that Matt LeBlanc is your pilot. Here's hoping it means more screen time for our pal Chris Harris.
