Top Gear: BBC bring in new boss just weeks after Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc's Cenotaph stunt

The incident lead to Evans apologising 'unreservedly'

Chris Evans, the new presenter of BBC's Top Gear programme, and The Stig pose together (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

After weeks of negative press, some relatively positive news for Chris Evans and his Top Gear team; they have a new boss.

The BBC's Katie Tayler has brought Head of Factual Entertainment, Clare Pizey, onto the production team.

The Sun claim Pizey will take over editorial control of the show, with insiders saying how she “has been tasked with keeping Evans in line”, particularly after the controversial Cenotaph stunt.

One insider told the tabloid: “BBC top brass want no more gaffes so have put Pizey on the case with the remit to make the programme safe.”

Conversely, a spokesperson told The Independent that "there is no truth in the claim it is in reaction to the Cenotaph stunt."

Pizey will work on the show with editor Alex Renton and newly appointed studio editor Martin Dance.

After the Cenotaph incident - which saw Matt LeBlanc driving near the war memorial during, leaving behind large tyre tracks - Evans apologised ‘unreservedly’ for the stunt.

Matt LeBlanc Takes Part in Filming for the New BBC Top Gear Series in Whitehall, London (MrG/LNP/REX/Shutterstock)

"On behalf of the Top Gear team and Matt,” he said on his BBC 2 Radio show. “I would like to apologise unreservedly for what these images seem to portray.

“There have been some very incendiary comments written alongside these pictures and I completely understand this furore but the Top Gear team would never ever do that."

In another interview, Evans courted controversy by dubbing the former Top Gear trio ‘Zippy, Bungle and George’.