It wasn’t necessarily a huge shock that changes were going to happen; the ratings for the season weren’t nearly as high as they needed to be to guarantee a future for everyone on the show.
We have no way of knowing for sure, but there’s a chance that some of the negative chatter around Evans’ off-camera exploits meant that he had to be the one to go.
There was buzz around the possibility of Matt LeBlanc choosing to leave Top Gear due to conflicts with his co-host, so it came as a surprise to some of us when news broke that Chris Evans would be the one to leave.
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