Chris Evans (presenter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chris Evans (presenter)

English presenter, businessman and producer

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1966

Place of Birth: Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Profession: businessperson, disc jockey, entrepreneur, merchant, television producer, television presenter, radio personality

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Chris Evans (presenter)

  • Christopher James Evans (born 1 April 1966) is an English television presenter, radio DJ, businessman, voice actor and producer for radio and television.
  • He started his broadcasting career working for Piccadilly Radio, Manchester, as a teenager, before moving to London as a presenter for the BBC's Greater London Radio and then Channel 4 television, where The Big Breakfast made him a star.
  • Soon he was able to dictate highly favourable terms, allowing him to broadcast on competing radio and TV stations.
  • Slots like the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and TFI Friday provided a mix of celebrity interviews, music and comic games, delivered in an irreverent style that attracted high ratings, though often also generated significant numbers of complaints.
  • By 2000 he was the UK's highest paid entertainer, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
  • In the tax year to April 2017, he was the BBC's highest-paid presenter, earning between £2.2m and £2.25m annually. In 2005, he started a new career on BBC Radio 2, hosting his long-running Drivetime programme, before moving in 2010 to host The Chris Evans Breakfast Show every weekday morning.
  • He previously presented The One Show on Fridays between 2010 and 2015.
  • Between 2011 and 2018, he co-hosted Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park. In 2015, Evans signed a three-year deal to lead a new Top Gear line-up.
  • and presented a revival series of TFI Friday.
  • On 4 July 2016, he announced that he would be stepping down as presenter of Top Gear.On 3 September 2018, he announced that he would be leaving his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Christmas Eve, and would be returning to Virgin Radio UK to present its breakfast show.
  • He moved from BBC Radio 2 with most of his regular team.

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