Top Gear ‘a massive hit if you include viewers who are walking past Dixons’

THE new Top Gear has an audience over 24 million if you include people walking past television shop windows, according to Chris Evans.

Evans hit back at critics after official viewing figures dropped so sharply some analysts feared a large chunk of the UK had fallen into the sea.

He said: “Traditional television ratings are irrelevant in a modern media world where people are constantly walking past high street television shops where the display models are showing Top Gear.

“Just because they’re only catching a brief snippet through a thick pane of glass doesn’t mean they aren’t loving the new format and the chemistry between the hosts.

“Then you’ve got people in pubs where the television is on in the background, and patients in doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries where Top Gear might be on with the sound down.

“Also you have to include anyone who has seen the trailer for the show, which is really just a condensed version of the best bits and therefore the same as watching it.

“And pets, of course you should include pets as viewers. Maybe not lizards but definitely cats and dogs, possibly gerbils too.”

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Mums to continue pointing out how much people on TV have aged

MOTHERS have confirmed plans to keep highlighting how various television celebrities look much older these days.

Mums confirmed that nothing gives them greater pleasure than identifying signs of the ageing process in celebrities as diverse as Michael Palin, Judi Dench and Bruce Willis.

Mother-of-two Mary Fisher said: “Matt LeBlanc never used to look like that 20 years ago. He looked so much better when he was younger.

“Nowadays he looks like the postman.”

Fisher also believes Ray Liotta looks a lot worse now that he did in Goodfellas, which was filmed 26 years ago.

However she reserved particular scorn for Anthea Turner, appearing to take pleasure in the presenter’s physical deterioration. She said: “You can tell she’s had work done but she’s not fooling anyone, talk about mutton dressed up as lamb.

“She thinks she’s all that but she could be stirring a cauldron in Macbeth.”

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