---
title: "Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid Returning to Top Gear, BBC Boss Says"
description: "The world's best-known automotive TV show seems to have found a host lineup that works."
date: "2017-04-27"
modified: "2017-04-27"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/9744/matt-leblanc-chris-harris-and-rory-reid-returning-to-top-gear-bbc-boss-says"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "BBC"
  - "Chris Harris"
  - "Matt LeBlanc"
  - "rory reid"
  - "Top Gear"
---

# Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid Returning to Top Gear, BBC Boss Says

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The years of uncertainty seem to have come to a close for the world's biggest automotive TV show. When *Top Gear* returns to the BBC for its 25th season, the current trio of hosts—Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid—will return with it, according to one of the British broadcaster's executives.

[According to Britain's *Express*](<https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/796968/Top-Gear-BBC-Two-boss-CONFIRMS-Matt-LeBlanc-will-return-to-motoring-series-in-2018>), during a recent interview, BBC Two controller Patrick Holland was asked whether LeBlanc, Harris, and Reid would be coming back for the next round of *Top Gear* fun. "Yes, very much so," he said.

The [trio took over hosting duties for the BBC show](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/8629/the-next-episode-of-top-gear-uk-may-be-the-best-of-the-new-show-yet>) after a widely-panned 23rd season in 2016, which saw radio broadcaster and producer Chris Evans serve as the de facto lead host along a rotating regular cast that included Reid, Harris, and LeBlanc, as well as racing driver Sabine Schmitz and driver-turned-commentator Eddie Jordan. (Schmitz and Jordan continued to make appearances on *Top Gear* during its 24th season.) [Evans's performance was widely panned](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/4003/top-gear-fans-rejoice-chris-evans-air-time-is-getting-majorly-reduced>), and [his reportedly problematic behavior became a magnet for media attention](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4166/matt-leblanc-may-quit-top-gear-if-chris-evans-isnt-fired>), leading him to [announce his departure one day after the final episode of the season aired](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/4258/chris-evans-is-quitting-top-gear>).

The three-host format, obviously, has been *Top Gear*'s traditional formula for success, being leveraged to great effect by former stars Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond for a 13-year run that only came to a close after [Clarkson punched a man over a steak](<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/the-real-reason-jeremy-clarkson-punched-a-man-over-steak/>).

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)