Chris Evans
- Profession: Radio and Television presenter
- Place/Date of Birth: Warrington, 01 April 2020
- Associated with: Billie Piper
Chris’ fellow Comic Relief presenters are Jonathan Ross, Lenny Henry, Davina McCall, Graham Norton, Russell Brand, Fearne Cotton, Kate Thornton and Paul O’Grady.
Evans waste - Mar 05
C4 waste a million on unseen Chris Evans show. A channel 4 boss admitted that they had put £1m in to promoting Girls and Boys before they’d even seen the show themselves. The show, presented by Vernon Kay, was hailed as Evans’ big comeback (even though he barely appeared on it) but it was panned by critics and suffered low ratings. The C4 boss stated "we should never have spent £1m promoting it. We hadn’t seen it. We were told it was going to be important and have Chris Evans in it." The show was axed after the first series.
Good Evans! - Mar 05
Chris Evans in most ambitious radio project ever. Chris Evans is in talks to present an ambitious new primetime show to be broadcast over several stations at the same time. The project comes from Capital Radio, Emap and GWR, owner of Classic FM and will be the first show outside of the charts to be broadcast across rival networks. Chris is in advanced talks about the show, which will be three hours long and broadcast on a weekend afternoon. Among those stations to broadcast the show will be London’s Capital FM, Manchester’s Key 103 and GWR FM in Bristol and Bath.
Chris’ Busted babe? - Mar 05
Is Chris Evans getting it on with ex Busted girl. The Daily Star have reported that Chris Evans is dating wannabe actress Kara Pointon, who recently split with Busted drummer James Bourne. However, The Sun reports that he is seeing a mystery lady called Amy. The speculation comes after photos were published of Evans snuggling up to a woman at the Groucho Club.
Chris is chilling - Feb 05
Chris Evans has no plans to go back to presenting full time. Despite the roaring success that was Chris Evans’ comeback at the Brit Awards, the 38 year old ginger nut, best remembered for his turns on the Big Breakfast and TFI Friday as well as his high profile sacking from Virgin Radio, has confirmed he won’t be going back to TV full time. He told fellow revellers at the Universal Brits after show that he was "happy being chilled" and has no plans to return to the limelight permanently.
Chris back on air - Jan 05
Chris Evans returns to radio. Following his successful appearance on the special Tsunami appeal radio show earlier this month Chris Evans has announced he is to return to radio this March. The media mogul will cover for friend and fellow DJ Danny Baker while he takes a break from his BBC London show. Could this mean that Chris plans to get back to his radio roots?
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At the London-based station his infamous "Round at Chris’ " Saturday morning show attracted a huge cult following and he later took the format to Virgin 1215. A stint on the short-lived BSB Channel, "The Power Station" allowed Chris time to iron out any presenting rough spots, until Channel 4 opted for a different type of early morning show with The BIG Breakfast. Chris dived into the nations mornings in September 1992, spearheading the morning extravaganza alongside Gaby Roslin. From the first sitting, his name became synonymous with the television story of the decade and within weeks The BIG Breakfast topped 2 million viewers. Chris’ years on the show made him a national star.
In 1993, Chris formed his own company called Ginger Productions to formulate a brand new variety show for Saturday nights, ’Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush’. Devised, written and performed by Chris, the ratings peaked at a combined 6 million viewers. News of the totally original format resulted in a global clamour for the rights, which to date have been sold to networks throughout Europe and all over the world including Australia and Brazil.
With Chris at its helm, Ginger Productions fast became one of the major players in entertainment production. Under the Ginger banner, Chris produced and presented a second series of ’Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush’, revitalised BBC Radio One with his Radio One Breakfast Show before bowing out to concentrate on his unique end-of-the-week TV show on Channel 4, TFI Friday. TFI Friday finished on 22nd December 2000 with a show hosted by Elton John. In October ’97, Chris returned to his radio roots to host the Virgin Radio Breakfast Show alongside his former Radio One team.
Then in December, in spectacular fashion and with financial backing, Chris bought Virgin Radio from Richard Branson, whilst the MMC were deliberating on a buy out from another company. The newly formed Ginger Media Group (GMG), headed by Chris Evans, now handled all of the interests of Virgin Radio and Ginger Productions. In March 2000, Ginger Productions was sold to SMG Plc. making them the sole owner of the company. Chris does however continue to present the successful Breakfast Show.
The Ginger one has been a hit with the ladies serending them with extravegent gifts, he is famous for his wild drinking binges, that don’t last for a couple of hours but more like a couple of days. His conquests included Mel Sykes, Mariella Frostrup, on-off lover TV producer Suzi Aplin and a week long fling with another Ginger,Geri Halliwell, which the press dissmissed as a press stunt so that her single could reach number one, well if it was, it worked as she did get to number one.
To the shock of everyone now, he is said to be blissfully happy with 19 year old singer Billie Piper. This is the real thing they keep telling us, well they are planning to move in together in a pad in Chelsea.
October 2007