Just 16 months after the much-loved Jeremy Clarkson was fired from his role as Top Gear host, his successor has now landed himself in hot water after claims of sexual assault emerged from a former colleague.
In the midst of appalling ratings and reports of a rift between the show's two new frontmen, Chris Evans is now being investigated by police following allegations made earlier in the year by a female co-worker.
The woman told The Sun on Sunday in May that after she turned down Evans' advances, he started bullying her, and regularly flashed her breasts and exposed his penis to her.
Other former colleagues have also complained that he would deliberately expose himself in a working environment, which Evans has admitted to doing in a 2005 interview.
She says she complained to the production team at the time of the ordeal, but had her objections fall on deaf ears - and claims the experience has now left her with trauma and reliant on anti-depressants.
Evans has since dismissed the sexual assault claims as "ridiculous", and says they have already had a "devastating" impact on his family.
The BBC is standing by Evans as the first season of the post-Clarkson era comes to an end, but the network may feel under pressure to act after it was found to have swept previous sexual assault allegations under the carpet - the most high-profile examples being Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris.
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