.Top Gear hosts Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc have reportedly fallen out
- .Source claims Evans thinks LeBlanc 'damaged the brand' with recent stunt
- .LeBlanc performed smoking doughnuts just yards from Britain's Cenotaph
- .Evans apologised, but added: 'This isn't a shoot I'm particularly involved in'
- .See more Top Gear updates at www.dailymail.co.uk/topgear
Top Gear hosts Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc have reportedly fallen out over the actor's 'disrespectful' donut stunt at the Cenotaph.
Last month Evans sought to play down his role in the filming of the sequences, in which fellow presenter LeBlanc and a stunt driver filled Whitehall with smoke and burning rubber by wheel-spinning in the shadow of Britain's main war memorials.
The BBC later admitted it knew of plans to film the controversial scenes in central London for six months, after seeking council and police permission to use the streets as a backdrop for its revamped show.
Top Gear hosts Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc (pictured with The Stig) have reportedly fallen out over the actor's 'disrespectful' donut stunt at the Cenotaph
Last month new Top Gear presenter Matt LeBlanc and a stunt driver filled Whitehall with smoke and burning rubber by wheel-spinning in the shadow of Britain's main war memorials
Following an outraged backlash Evans, who took over presenting the show after Jeremy Clarkson was sacked for hitting a producer, said: 'On behalf of the Top Gear team and Matt I would like to apologise unreservedly for what these images seem to portray.
'There's been some very incendiary comments involved and written alongside these pictures and I completely understand all this furore', but in attempt to distance himself from the stunt he added: 'This isn't a shoot I'm particularly involved in'.
Now, it has been reported the stunt has become a source of bad blood between the show's two main presenters, with Evans branding the incident a PR disaster.
A source close to the show told The Sun: 'Since the Cenotaph their relationship has deteriorated. Chris thinks Matt has severely damaged the brand.
'Behind the scenes it is very frosty between them.'
Politicians and a former Army chief quickly condemned the BBC for arranging the 'gravely disrespectful' sequence yards from Britain's main war memorial.
Colonel Richard Kemp, a retired commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said: 'It beggars belief that they were ever allowed to film here. This is a sacred tribute to millions of people who have done far more for their country than [show hosts] Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc ever will.'
Fans of Top Gear have given their damning verdict on the new series of the hit motoring show in a blow to the BBC and producers
More than 50,000 people have gone online to give the newly released trailer (pictured) a thumbs down on the programme's YouTube channel
The scenes, which required a council and police-approved road closure and took a large film crew hours to shoot, will now not feature in the new series of the show, which is due to air in May.
It also later emerged the scenes cost licence fee-payers £100,000 to film.
Meanwhile fans of Top Gear have given their damning verdict on the new series of the hit motoring show.
More than 50,000 people have gone online to give the newly released trailer a thumbs down on the programme's YouTube channel.
Many unhappy fans bemoaned the Americanisation of the show and said the new presenters - Evans, LeBlanc and Sabine Schmitz- were not as funny as Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
The BBC later admitted it knew of plans to film the controversial scenes in central London for six months
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