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It's official: Chris Evans, a British television and radio personality,聽and a LaFerrari owner, has been named as Jeremy Clarkson's replacement as the host of聽Top Gear. 聽

The news was announced earlier today via Twitter.

Venerable BBC presenter Evans聽is already familiar to British audiences from popular programs shows like聽TFI Friday听补苍诲听The Big Breakfast, and signed a聽deal聽which will make him the leader of the show for the next three years. Speculation now turns to who will join him in hosting duties,聽with聽ex-model Jodie Kidd, motorcycle racer Guy Martin and actor Philip Glenister reportedly on the short list.

But regardless of who is picked for聽Top Gear's聽next iteration, the trio will have unprecedented competition from聽Clarkson, Hammond and May鈥攚ho are almost certainly developing a show for Netflix.

Given the resumes of both hosting lineups, the real winners here will be fans of irreverent, hilarious and occasionally informative car shows. Because in that regard, two is definitely better than one. More聽news聽when we have it.聽

Recently, the聽BBC released a teaser trailer聽for a special episode of聽Top Gear聽that will round out the current season 22 of the popular car-themed show and, more importantly, be the last to feature Jeremy Clarkson. In case you鈥檝e been living under a rock for the past several months, Clarkson was fired from the BBC back in March for his聽altercation with producer Oisin Tymon.

Despite no longer working there, Clarkson recently returned to the BBC to do some voiceover聽work聽for his final聽Top Gear聽episode. A BBC spokesperson confirmed the news to聽The Week, and explained that Clarkson wasn鈥檛 paid for the job and that he is still free to appear on BBC shows despite having been fired by the聽company.

鈥淸Jeremy Clarkson] has done the voiceover for聽Top Gear,鈥� the spokesperson said. 鈥淗e came in to the BBC the week before last.鈥�

The BBC still hasn鈥檛 confirmed when the final Clarkson-era聽Top Gear聽episode will be screened but it is expected to be sometime in the next few weeks. It will contain two segments shot before Clarkson was fired, with the rest of the episode expected to mostly feature co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May in the studio. There were previously meant to be three more episodes for season 22.

As for future seasons, a handful of British celebs have been speculated as new hosts and there鈥檚 also been talk of a different host appearing each episode. At the same time, it鈥檚 been reported that Hammond and May have been offered seven-figure deals to continue with the show but many believe they鈥檒l stick with Clarkson and turn the offers down.

Meanwhile, the famous trio are still working together on the series of Top聽Gear聽Live shows, now referred to as "Clarkson, Hammond, and May Live".聽Rumors are abound that all three hosts may be聽moving聽to Netflix to start a new show called "House of Cars", but no confirmation has been received from any of the parties.