[darrenlit94]

Chris Harris has been doing the media rounds today, as his memoirs have been released.  He said very little (in a very classy way) about the Flintoff accident on Breakfast this morning:

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I've just bought the Harris e-book and flicked through the Top Gear bits, hoping for some juicy gossip from the 2016 Chris Evans series, especially as Harris has hinted at various things in interviews over the years. There's not really very much there on that subject, just saying that Evans had made it clear that he didn't like him very much, and very much making it sound as though the whole production team were quite grateful that Evans had decided to stand down - and we kind of knew that already.

There's plenty of interesting stuff there, though (for example, the fact that the production team deliberately took Rory Reid out of the 'travel' films and made them two-handers from the 2018 series onwards, and that Flintoff and McGuinness were screen-tested alongside Harris who was certain to be staying in a new line-up) and I'd definitely recommend the book for anybody who's interested in the latest iterations of Top Gear.  And I haven't even got into the earlier chapters about his motor journalism, which I'm very interested in reading soon!

Yeah it is worth a read just for the Top Gears parts. One thing I found interesting is that Chris barely mentions Rory. He kept saying he enjoyed working with Matt and later Freddie and Paddy but never really says anything about Rory.