Chris Evans

Profession: Radio and Television presenter
Place/Date of Birth: Warrington, 01 April 2020
Associated with: Billie Piper

Divorce? - Oct 04
It’s all over between Chris and Billie after reports of affairs and bust ups. Billie Piper has called time on her marriage to millionaire Chris Evans after months of arguments over his lack of support for her acting career. The ex teen popstar has been working on the new series of Doctor Who while Chris, is seems has been sitting in pubs getting drunk and flirting with Harriet Scott. Although Chris has been begging Billie to reconsider it seems that the honeymoon is well and truly over and that the fledgling actress is finding solace in the arms of ex boyfriend Danny Dyer.

Chris makes £4m - Jan 04
Chris Evans made a £4m profit by selling his Surrey mansion to a pal of Chelski chief Roman Abramovich.

Chris and wife Billie redecorated the huge eight bedroomed mansion house, but decided to sell after they thought it was too big for the pair of them. The house, Hanscombe Court in Godalming, is now owned by Russian multi-millionaire Boris Berezovsky. Boris’s millions make Chris’s fortune look like pocket money, he has a neat £1.5 billion tucked up in his bank.

Chris and Billie meanwhile are happy to spend more time in Knightsbridge, inbetween romantic trips to the Seychelles and the ’not so glam but just as nice’ Norfolk Broads.

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Chris coughs up £7m - 27/07/03
Chelsea boy Chris Evans is to pay the owners of Virgin Radio a whopping seven million quid.

This follows his failed multi million damages claim against the station. Chris will pay the Scottish Media Group for costs and damages incurred throughout the court case.

Doesn’t exactly leave the multi millionaire and his young wife Billie short of pocket money though...

Chris Evans loses court battle - 26/06/03
Media mogul Chris Evans has lost his battle for multi-million pound damages against Virgin Radio.

Mr Justice Lightman, giving his ruling at the High Court in London, said Evans had lost his claim because he had breached the terms of his contract and had not been unfairly dismissed.

Scottish Media Group, owners of Virgin Radio, were now entitled to damages, which would be decided at a later hearing.

In the bitter court battle, which began on March 19 and ended on May 8, the former DJ and TV presenter claimed Virgin Radio withheld £8.6 million of his share options after terminating his breakfast show contract in a highly-publicised bust-up.

SMG counter-claimed more than £20 million from Evans, who made a personal fortune of £70 million when he sold Virgin Radio to SMG.

The media group said Evans breached his contract when he failed to turn up for a series of broadcasts because he was too hung-over to present his show.

Mr Justice Lightman had been told by Geoffrey Vos QC, representing SMG, that Evans showed an "overbearing arrogance and conceit" before he was sacked on June 28, 2001.

Back in Knightsbridge! - 16/06/03
Chris and wife Billie have a London flat in Knightsbridge, not far fron the original Chelsea pad Chris used to once own! This means they haev prob sold their Belgravia apartment, hard to keep up really!

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Biography

Chris Evans was born on April Fools Day, 1966. His meteoric rise to fame has taken him from opening Timmy Mallett’s mail to being one of Britain’s most successful presenter and famous face. In Chris’ early years, he ran the local newsagents in his home town of Warrington and set up his own Kiss-o-gram and Private Detective agencies. Having started his broadcasting career at Piccadilly Radio, he went on to nurse Emma Freud through her first serious interviews at GLR.

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