Matt LeBlanc will be one of the new ‘Top Gear’ presenters
If you’ve been following the new series of Top Gear, you’ll probably know that the BBC has been hunting for on-screen partners for presenter Chris Evans. There’s already been plenty of speculation over who will join him, but today the Beeb announced it’s found its first co-host: Friends and Joey star Matt LeBlanc.
At first glance, it appears an unlikely appointment, but he’s actually no stranger to the show: LeBlanc has raced the show’s reasonably priced car around the Dunsfold Aerodrome test track twice already (setting a record in the process) and presented spin-off show Top Gear: The Races. He is also the show’s first non-British host in its 39-year history.
The BBC says he’ll join production and begin filming immediately, presumably alongside other new cast members that “will be confirmed shortly.” It’s then just a case of waiting until May, when the new series debuts on BBC2, or for Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond to announce when their Amazon-produced motoring show will hit Prime Video.
Source: BBC Media Centre
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