Date: 8 January 1994
Originally published in: The Sun (UK)
Written by: Peter Willis and Damian Lazarus
Big Breakfast star Chris Evans is back with his stunning ex-girlfriend Rachel Tatton-Brown after ditching pop beauty Kim Wilde.
Chris has spent several recent nights at Rachel’s home, according to her neighbours. His red F-reg Ferrari was parked outside day and night last week. Once he was spotted emerging from her ground-floor flat in the early morning, wearing just a dressing gown. The Sun told yesterday how Chris, 29, dumped Kim after just three months. Friends say Kim was upset by reports that he was secretly dating Rachel.
Tony Adu – who lives next door to Rachel in Acton, West London – said: “I first saw Chris just before Christmas. He dropped Rachel off once and another time he picked her up. They looked happy. Then after Christmas Day he was parked outside for four days.”
Nutty
“I came in at about 1am one night and spotted his car. It was still there in the morning.”
Another neighbour saw Chris nip out in his dressing gown to fetch something from his car. She said: “He must be nutty – it was freezing.”
Blonde Rachel, 26, is a production assistant on Chris’s Channel 4 show and has been romantically linked with him in the past. They met when Chris was a DJ on GLR radio. Rachel, brother Duncan, 28, and sister Claire, 27, were guest listeners on his morning show.
A pal of Rachel’s said: “Chris was impressed by their sense of humour. When he joined the Big Breakfast he got jobs for Rachel and Claire.” Kim, 33, who met Chris when she spent a week as his co-host, is on holiday in Austria.
