TOP Gear host Matt LeBlanc shocked fans by quitting the show in a disastrous blow for BBC bosses.
The former Friends star, 50, said he did not want to extend his £1million-a-year contract and the next series will be his last. Who’s in the running to replace him?
Who will be the new Top Gear host?
According to Ladbrokes, the odds are as follows.
- Guy Martin 5/1
- Steve Coogan 7/1
- Jodie Kidd 10/1
- Dermot O’Leary 10/1
- Philip Glenister 16/1
- Vicky Butler-Henderson 16/1
- Jeremy Clarkson 25/1
- Sue Perkins 25/1
- Carl Fogarty 25/1
- Jimmy Carr 25/1
- Jay Kay 25/1
- Richard Bacon 25/1
- Denise Van Outen 25/1
- Natalie Pinkham 25/1
- David Coulthard 33/1
- Nigel Farage 100/1
James Martin
James was born in June 1972 in Malton, North Yorkshire to farmer parents who worked on the Castle Howard estate.
He struggled at school as he suffered from dyslexia and later studied catering at Scarborough Technical College.
James furthered his chef training in France, where he worked at three Michelin star restaurants, before joining Anthony Worrall Thompson’s Kensington eatery.
At the age of 22, he became the head chef at the Hotel du Vin in Winchester before starting a TV career on Ready Steady Cook and the Big Breakfast.
James fronted the BBC show Saturday Kitchen from 2006 to 2016.
In addition, he has been on shows including Sweet Baby James, The Great British Village, James Martin’s Food Map of Britain, James Martin: Home Comforts and James Martin’s French Adventure.
He has also been a guest presenter on The One Show and This Morning.
James opened his first restaurant called The Leeds Kitchen in 2011 – it closed two years later in 2013.
In 2012 he opened a restaurant inside The Talbot Hotel in Malton, North Yorkshire.
He also has a chain of cafes called James Martin Kitchen at Glasgow airport, Stansted airport, Manchester Piccadilly train station and at the Lakeside shopping centre in Essex.
According to bookies, his odds of replacing Matt were 6/1, even rising to 1/2 in July.
however, he recently revealed that BBC hasn’t reached out to him about joining the show and hasn’t been mentioned in Ladbrokes’ latest odds.
Guy Martin
Guy Martin was born November 4, 1981.
He is a British lorry-mechanic better known publicly as a motorcycle racer and a television personality.
Guy started racing in 1998, debuting on road circuits at the Isle of Man TT events in 2004, where he gained 15 podium finishes.
He had a long career before announcing his official retirement in 2017.
In August 2017, Formula 1 car team Williams announced that GUY would join their pit-crew for the impending Belgian GP.
Guy has amassed a small fortune during his career.
He has an estimated worth of £1.5million.
He revealed he’s to become a dad to a baby girl in October with his partner Sharon Comiskey.
Speaking to the Grimsby Telegraph he said that he wants his daughter to be born in Grimsby.
According to bookies, his odds of replacing Matt are 5/1.
Dermot O’Leary
The presenter was born and raised in Colchester, Essex but has dual British and Irish citizenship thanks to his parents, who moved over to England from the Emerald Isle before he was born.
Dermot started his career on BBC Essex before moving into TV, being one of the original presenters of Channel 4’s T4 strand.
He hosted original Big Brother spin-off show, Big Brother’s Little Brother from 2001 until 2008 and took over from Kate Thornton as The X Factor host in 2007.
Dermot also has a keen interest in birds and has been contributing to BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Week, where he discusses the birds that he has spotted that day.
The 44-year-old has had a busy 2018, first joining forces with Edith Bowman in February to present the red carpet coverage of the Baftas.
In May, he was announced to be co-presenting the BBC’s coverage of the Royal Wedding with Kirsty Young.
Dermot has been with his wife Dee Koppang since 2002 when they met at a TV production company and married in 2012.
According to bookies, his odds of replacing Matt are 10/1.
Philip Glenister
Philip Glenister has become one of TV’s most recognisable stars on the back of portraying various hard-man characters.
He’s probably best known as DCI Gene Hunt on Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, DCI William Bell in State of Play and uncompromising preacher Reverend Anderson in Outcast.
The 54-year-old has also starred on the silver screen, with notable roles in Calendar Girls and Kingdom of Heaven.
Hailing from Middlesex, the Arsenal fan has two daughters with his wife Beth Goddard, who is also a TV actress.
The Life on Mars actor is a vocal car enthusiast and has experience presenting motor-related programmes, having hosted Channel 4’s For the Love of Cars.
He has featured as a celebrity guest on series 8 of the show in 2006.
According to bookies, his odds of replacing Matt are 16/1.
Jodie Kidd
Jodie Kidd was born in Guildford, Surrey, on September 25, 1978.
She is the daughter of the businessman and former show jumper Johnny Kidd and her maternal grandfather is Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Baronet.
Growing up in nearby West Sussex, Jodie began horse riding at a young age and was soon competing in show jumping events.
She completed the fastest Celebrity Lap in the Suzuki Liana on series 2 of the show but was overtaken by Simon Cowell in the following series.
The model previously turned down presenting the show after Jeremy Clarkson was fired in 2016.
According to bookies, her odds of replacing Matt are 10/1.
David Coulthard
Coulthard was born in 1971 in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland
He attended Kirkcudbright Academy, gaining eight O-levels.
From an early age, motorsport was something that heavily interested Coulthard, and he cites F1 champions Jim Clark, Nigel Mansell and Alan Prost as his childhood heroes.
Coulthard also comes from a family heavily connected with motorsports as his grandfather took part in the Monte Carlo Rally and his father, Duncan, had previously been Scotland’s karting champion.
He began karting when he was gifted his first kart by his father on his eleventh birthday, going on to win the Scottish Championship and then securing victory in the Cumbria Kart Racing Club Championship in 1985.
Making the transition to car racing, Coulthard had a stint as a Formula 3000 driver before racing in Formula 1 for the first time in the 1994 Spanish Grand Prix.
He won his first Grand Prix in Portugal the following year.
In total, Coulthard recorded 13 Grand Prix wins in his 14-year career, including finishing second behind Michael Schumacher in the 2001 Drivers’ championship.
Retiring from F1 in 2008, he joined the BBC as a pundit before moving to Channel 4 in 2016 when they took over the television broadcasting of the sport.
Post-retirement he has had success in the Race of Champions, a competition that brings together many of the best international rally and racing car drivers, winning the Drivers’ Cup in 2014.
The racer spoke out about previously being snubbed by Top Gear in 2016.
According to bookies, his odds of replacing Matt are 33/1.
Nigel Farage
The former Ukip leader, 53, was born in Kent on April 3 1964.
Farage was educated at Dulwich College.
On leaving school in 1982, he decided not to go to university, but to work in the City, trading commodities at the London Metal Exchange.
Initially, he joined the American commodity operation of brokerage firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, transferring to Crédit Lyonnais Rouse in 1986.
He joined Refco in 1994, and Natexis Metals in 2003.
Farage married German-born Kirsten in 1999 after his divorce from his first spouse.
The pair has two children together – with Farage apparently splitting his time between the Kent family home and his London pad.
According to bookies, his odds of replacing Matt are 100/1.
Why did Matt LeBlanc quit Top Gear?
Matt said he made the decision to leave due to the show to spend more time with his family and friends.
The 50-year-old star said that although the show is “great fun,” the “time commitment and extensive travel… takes me away from my family and friends more than I’m comfortable with.”
“I will forever be a Top Gear fan and I wish the team continued success. Thanks for a great drive.”
BBC Two controller Patrick Holland said: “I want to thank the fabulous Matt LeBlanc for being a brilliant co-host on Top Gear.”
Matt is currently dating Top Gear producer Aurora Mulligan and he has one child by his ex-wife Melissa McKnight.
At the moment, he fronts the BBC2 show alongside motoring journalists Rory Reid and Chris Harris.
He took over as the lead presenter from Chris Evans who quit the show after just one series amid plummeting ratings.
Why did Chris Evans leave the BBC show?
Chris Evans resigned from the revamped version of Top Gear after just one season.
The BBC presenter announced the news on Twitter, claiming he had given it is “best shot.”
Top Gear’s audience fell to a new low of two million viewers with Chris at the helm.
Chris Evans tweeted: “Stepping down from Top Gear.
“Gave it my best shot but sometimes that’s not enough.
“The team are beyond brilliant, I wish them all the best.”
He added: “Full steam ahead then with Radio 2, CarFest, Children In Need, 500 Words and whatever else we can dream up in the future.”
Perry McCarthy, the original Top Gear “Stig”, said: “It’s sad for Chris, but personally I was expecting such an announcement.
“I wasn’t expecting it this quickly, but I did think that Chris would step down from it.
“Chris is an enormously popular radio presenter and TV show host but he hasn’t quite gelled with this show, he’s not really gelling with the viewers.
“It must be a little bit painful for him to receive this reaction from everybody and I don’t think he’d want to continue, I probably wouldn’t want to continue if I was getting constant criticism either.”
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