Paddy McGuinness in Freddie Flintoff Top Gear admission - 'that would be a problem'
Paddy McGuinness has provided an update on Top Gear after the show was axed following Freddie Flintoff's devastating crash.
Since the show was pulled from the air, Flintoff's former co-hosts Chris Harris and McGuinness linked up for 'Road Tripping', a successful BBC series.
For the first time since the cancellation of Top Gear, it saw two of its three hosts back on screens together.
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Despite being Top Gear host-heavy, McGuinness insists that the show was never made to replicate the popular BBC show, and he couldn't do the show without Flintoff.
"If we were doing Top Gear, just me and Chris without Fred, then that would be a problem," he admitted to the Sun. "I’d be thinking to myself, ‘Bloody hell, where’s the big lad?’
"The thing with me, Chris and Fred, which showed on Top Gear, we had a really great chemistry and we all got on really well. We still do. I know for a fact that if Fred wanted to come along on that road trip, there wouldn’t be any problems — we’d do it.
"And if the three of us ended up doing Top Gear again, we’d do it.”
Following the success of the first season of Road Tripping, McGuinness neither confirmed nor denied whether a second season was in the making. "We’re talking about it now," he said.
The horror Flintoff incident occurred at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey, just over two years ago. Along with a colleague, Flintoff accidentally flipped a Morgan Super 3 trike at 130pmh, causing major injuries to himself.
An insider explained that the reports of 130mph were actually false, and it was only going just above 20mph. "People talk about this 'high-speed crash' but although the consequences were horrendous, it was no such thing," an insider revealed.
"The car was actually going at 22mph when it flipped over. There is a lot of footage and it has been carefully looked at," the source informed MailOnline.
Regardless of the speed he was going, Flintoff broke multiple ribs and suffered life-changing facial injuries. He was later offered a compensation package of £9million by the BBC.
