Paddy McGuinness has suggested he could never do Top Gear without Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff. The BBC motoring show was axed after Freddie was involved in a horrific crash during filming in 2022.
Now, Paddy, 51, insists that his travelogue Paddy And Chris: Road Tripping – which he hosted with fellow presenter Chris Harris last year – was never intended to emulate the trio's old programme.
Paddy is quoted by The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column as saying: "If we were doing 'Top Gear', just me and Chris without Fred, then that would be a problem.
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.
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