Perhaps he could team up with John Leslie for TG. Must be other BP presenters that could fit in. Helen Skelton?
They already have the necessary skills for modifying cars using sticky backed plastic, toilet roll tubes and string for the challenges.
Hmm...think Leslie's got issues of his own and might not want the attention...though he is a property developer, according to the Wiki gods so he does seem to have kept to the BP ideology...guess that's who's been keeping No More Nails afloat?!?
Bacon wouldn't be such a bad choice though...he's very good on't radio and he might just have the right amount of quirk!
Just a chip in about Deayton though...they also said, as well as not actually liking him, that the main reason for getting rid was that, as presenters of the show, it was their duty to slag off all aspects of the news...and that him being the news made the situation untenable...that last show was a peach though...