The broadcasting company announced on Tuesday that Evans will take over for the recently sacked Jeremy Clarkson. Evans inked a three-year deal to host the world famous car show.
“I’m thrilled, Top Gear is my favorite program of all time,” he said. “Created by a host of brilliant minds who love cars and understand how to make the massively complicated come across as fun, devil-may-care and effortless. When in fact, of course, it’s anything but and that’s the genius of Top Gear’s global success.”
Evans added: “I promise I will do everything I possibly can to respect what has gone on before and take the show forward.”
Although not as popular on this side of the pond, Evans is well known in the UK for starring roles on both radio and television.
The BBC hasn’t announced who will co-host Top Gear alongside Evans. Following Clarkson’s firing, his co-presenters, Richard Hammond and James May, both declined to extend their contracts with the BBC.
The BBC promises that filing for a new series of Top Gear will “start in the next few weeks.”
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