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27th Jan 2016

James May thinks Chris Evans is faking his Top Gear struggles

Kevin Beirne

James May doesn’t think Chris Evans is being totally honest with Top Gear fans.

The former co-host has accused his successor of playing up production problems in order to dampen expectations ahead of the new series.

Speaking to ITV’s This Morning, May said: “That’s my theory. To be brutally honest that’s what I’d do. I would make out it was all going terribly.

“The picture of Chris supposedly being sick while he was driving a car. Was he being sick? I look a lot more contorted when I’m sick.”

Despite his comments, May says he’d still like to see Top Gear do well under Evans.

“I’d like to see Chris’ version do well. It’s a ballsy call to continue it,” he said.

“I wouldn’t want to be the one presenting it when we’d just finished, but there must be a way of reinventing it. We always said it would survive beyond us.”