Vet, science explorer, petrolhead: the many hats of TV’s Mark Evans.
Dr Mark Evans is a multifaceted TV presenter. The former RSPCA chief vet is a well-known animal expert and natural history front man, both here and in the US. DIY don and an accomplished mechanic he has over 100 hit engineering shows; even building his own helicopter! His colourful TV career has seen him dissecting a polar bear on the Arctic sea ice; electro-ejaculating a wild bull elephant to collect a semen sample; and he’s probably the first person to have climbed into an orangutan nest… 200 feet off the jungle floor. Not surprisingly, he’s been in some scrapes, including a fracas with a crocodile – and has the scars to prove it.
However, it was in 2015 that Mark was granted exclusive access to Jaguar. In the 1960’s Jaguar made 12 special cars, known as the Lightweight E-Types, because they were were lighter than regular E-Types. Lighter, faster, more expensive, better. Today these cars change hands for up to £5m.
Now Jaguar craftsmen were to create six brand new Lightweight E-Types, costing over £1 million each and going to specially-chosen customers.
When he’s not streaming live footage from Zambia or generating Channel 4’s second biggest web traffic surge in history (Foxes Live) he can be found tinkering with old cars and even built his childhood dream – a Land Rover – from scratch with salvaged parts. And yes, it was filmed for TV. Helicopters, Landies, super-trikes: Evans is a proper petrolhead.