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TV presenter Paddy McGuinness decided against attending tonight's National Television Awards, leaving his estranged wife Christine attending alone, despite the pair being nominated together for their documentary Our Family and Autism. Paddy, 49, is said to have made the decision to stay home due to concerns that his appearance may have been a distraction from the success of his family's documentary.The dad-of-three has since taken to Instagram revealing how he spent the evening, while Christine, 34, attends on their behalf.

Christine McGuinness admitted to feeling "a little lost" as she tries to navigate her new life after splitting up from her husband, Paddy McGuinness.The mum-of-three, 34, and the Top Gear host, 49, called time on their 11-year marriage in a joint statement on Instagram last month. Christine has since shared a number of high-spirited social media posts but the star appears to be feeling a little more measured in her recent snaps.The blonde beauty shared an image of a pink street sign, which read: "You'll always feel a little lost right before you find yourself." She also showed clips of her enjoying a "gorgeous sunset" and being joined by a "lonely bird" on the banks of the River Thames. Christine even shared a video of her enjoying a game of darts on a night out while posing happily for a snap in the street.

Lancashire funnyman Paddy McGuinness has surprised his fans with an unusual birthday celebration on social media, as he turned 49 on Sunday. The Top Gear presenter ditched the more typical convention of cake and presents as he participated in a special fitness challenge to mark his 49 years in the world. To celebrate his birthday, and reaching the last year of his forties before next year’s big 50, Paddy decided to showcase his impressive fitness skills by performing 49 press ups, one for every year birthday he has had so far.

James emphasised on Twitter to his 3.2 million followers that the incident happened a while ago. “Thank you for all your kind comments and funny jokes re my crash, but it was a while back, not that bad, and I’m perfectly OK,” he said.He then added: “Apologies to Evo fans for binning the VIII. #Bell**d.”Alongside his Grand Tour co-stars James and the gang reportedly took turns to race cars up and down a tunnel heading towards a rock wall. A source reported to The Sun that the lights in the tunnel didn’t turn on until the star were already inside, meaning they had limited time to react. They explained, after the crash occurred: “It looked extremely worrying at first.

Paddy McGuinness has announced his birthday plans are “out of the window” following the breakdown of his marriage.The actor and Top Gear presenter, who will turn 49 on August 14, took to Instagram to share the sad news. In his usual comical fashion the star updated fans from home, quipping: “Welcome to this very special edition of shower news: drought edition.” Paddy covered his dry body in shower gel without turning the water on, and began revealing what he’d planned for his birthday celebrations.

TV star James May has been rushed to hospital after a car crash stunt reportedly went wrong.The former Top Gear star, 59, is said to have broken a rib and needed a brain scan before getting the all-clear. It’s believed James had been filming with his Grand Tour co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond during the time of the accident. A TV source told The Sun: "It looked extremely worrying at first.

Jeremy Clarkson, 62, is concerned that one of his jobs is running the risk of being axed due to the economic situation.The star, who rose to fame driving fast vehicles on BBC’s Top Gear, before moving over to Amazon Prime Video’s The Grand Tour, is now also writing a motoring column.However, Jeremy is now worrying that people will be unable to afford to buy any of the new vehicles he is busy reviewing.In the presenter’s review of the Volkswagen T-Roc, which was published today, he explained that fuel bills are now getting so high, consumers will lose interest in investing in the latest cars.While empathising with his colleagues writing in the Travel section of The Sunday Times amid chaos over cancelled flights, Jeremy realised something startling about his own career.He penned: “I’m in an even more preposterous situation. “I don’t want to talk myself out of a job, but it’s difficult to see why I’m writing a motoring column this morning. “Because even if you could buy a new car, and you can’t due to the semiconductor shortage, you wouldn’t be able to afford to go anywhere in it.”Jeremy went on to predict the situation is going to get even more difficult to handle this autumn, due to the expense of heating people’s homes.The star moaned: “I’m not normally pessimistic, but come the autumn, when people have to switch on their central heating systems and the inevitable food shortage arrives, I fear that cars are going to be filed in your ‘list of important things’ below the wellbeing of your town crier and the fortunes of Plymouth Argyle.  “I may be forced to fill the time reviewing steam locomotives and VHS players instead.”It comes as the cost of living in the UK is set to skyrocket in the coming weeks.The Bank of England

Jeremy Clarkson, 62, spoke about the sad loss he had experienced recently amid the UK’s brutal heatwave that saw temperatures sore above 40 degrees Celsius.The Clarkson’s Farm star also admitted that the extreme heat had made life on Diddly Squat very difficult. Jeremy spoke about the awful effect the heat wave had on farmers and their land in his latest column. The former Top Gear star wrote: “One of my pigs died from heat exhaustion, my potatoes look like sultanas, and my springs are drying up, which means that to stay alive I have to suck the moisture out of moss, or drink beer.”After losing one of his pigs, the problems didn’t stop there for Jeremy, as it seems the heat also caused trouble for his other animals.“Meanwhile, my cows are so hungry they are prepared to walk through an electric fence every day to look for food,” Jeremy wrote. READ MORE: Anne Heche 'rushed to hospital with burns as car crashes into house'“To get round the problem, I spent half a day building a proper fence with posts sunk deep into the bedrock. But even this was no deterrent to a starving ton of meat and muscle.“To try to keep them off the road, I’m using bribery, feeding them the hay I cut earlier in the year,” he explained. The star then shared a dark thought, suggesting he might be forced to eat the animals if they don’t have enough food to last the winter. “Come the winter, there won’t be enough to go round.

Top Gear favourite was devastated to lose his friend, with whom he shares his well-documented passion for classic cars, and described himself as "heartbroken".Richard has stated that his late friend was his "favourite person to introduce others to" and that they had been close for years.It had barely been a month since the pair were seen together at his The Smallest Cog car restoration workshop, and the two men have also filmed for TV together.Dean, a British-German businessman who owned the Herefordshire based mask supplier Ultrafilter Medical, had been holidaying with family and friends on a luxurious yacht named 'Amore' (the Italian word for 'love') when disaster struck.The 88 foot yacht crashed into a rock wall, with himself, his wife and daughter and four other revellers on board.Police have suggested that it had been travelling at high speed when it went off course.Dean was thrown from the deck into the water, and following the shock of the impact, he went into cardiac arrest.Though he was initially rescued, he died shortly afterwards.His wife and daughter are currently being treated at a British hospital for serious injuries, while the other guests have escaped the tragic scene relatively unscathed.The impact of the crash was so severe that the bow of Dean's yacht was completely destroyed.It is believed that the captain could have swerved to avoid collision with another passing boat by the name of Sweet Dragon.However the movement caused the yacht to lose control altogether, leading to the tragic accident.The partially sunken yacht has now been recovered and taken to Porto Cervo.Meanwhile Richard gave a statement to the Daily Mail honouring his beloved friend."I'm genuinely shocked at this heartbreaking news,” he

Top Gear host Paddy, 48, announced this month that they were going their separate ways, but she has since confirmed on Instagram that the pair will "still happily live in [the] family home together".Christine made the vow of loyalty to her beloved husband in her autobiography A Beautiful Nightmare.It had previously been rumoured that she showed Paddy the door after photos circulated of him walking arm in arm with former All Saints star, Nicole Appleton, in 2018.However the star was quick to assure fans that it wasn't the case."There were stories saying I'd kicked him out - I never did or would ever do that," she insisted."No matter how difficult things get, I would never kick my husband out."I wanted my children to have a dad at home."Nevertheless, she struggled with insecurity, admitting to breaking down in tears after her husband left the house on multiple occasions and wishing that he would simply stay at home.As she explained in A Beautiful Nightmare, her work commitments took him away from the home they shared in Cheshire all too often.Yet Christine reiterated in her book that nothing could persuade her to break up the family - her, Paddy, and their three children. "It didn't matter to me if I'd forgiven him, if I was OK with it or if I trusted him," she explained."All of that didn't count, I just wanted my children to have their father there - something I never had."The Real Housewives of Cheshire star had a "difficult" childhood, by her own account.She recalled in her book: "When I was around one, Mum found out my dad was a heroin addict."My mum longed for the relationship to work, but when I crawled over one of his needles as a toddler, she knew it was over."When her parents separated, her mother shielded her

The pair married in June 2011 following a four-year courtship, with Paddy's pal Peter Kay taking on best man duties.Paddy and Christine are parents to three children together - twins Leo and Penelope, eight, and daughter Felicity, five - all of whom have been diagnosed with autism.Paddy failed to back Christine on ITV’s The Games and they went on separate holidays last month.The mum of three bravely admitted: “What I might have put up with in the past, I probably wouldn’t put up with now, and the same for him.”Christine continued: “I can’t deny we are having a very, very difficult time.“It’s just — we’ve been together 15 years, 11 years married: we are gonna have ups and downs — but this situation at the minute.“I don’t want to go into it too much but I will just say that I didn’t cause this situation.”Christine added: "You know, that family bond will always be there no matter what but yeah, I was a teenager when I met him and I’m a 34-year-old woman now, so I suppose what I might have put up with in the past, I probably wouldn’t put up with now and same for him.”

“We just realised our youngest Felicity's passport runs out tomorrow, so now we're a bit unsure we are going at all.“I am keeping everything crossed. I really want to take them away.“We've already started preparing the children to go.

Express.co.uk, James discussed whether or not he spoke to his former co-hosts Richard Hammond or Jeremy Clarkson while filming for Our Man In Italy. He jokingly explained that he didn’t speak to them and was pleased to not have them there. James said: “No, I didn't phone them up, I was pleased not to have them [here] to be honest.“When I am making a TV show by myself, I can just keep going, it's great until the crew tell me to shut up.”The programme was thrown into doubt last year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. James and his crew were supposed to be filming the series in America, but were unable to due to the restrictions. He said: “We were supposed to be [filming in] the USA and I actually announced it on Twitter and various other places.“Then about two days later we realised we couldn't do it.The problem was COVID-19 restrictions.“But Italy didn't [have restrictions] and it wasn't completely sprung on us because we always have several ideas lined up and partly, it was in our back pocket as a possible [country] for the future.“So, we haven't blown America out of the water, we just didn't do it at that time.”Speaking about the future of the series, and whether filming in America could be next as a location, James continued: “Well, it would be nice to do another one, and that all depends on how well this one is received."America is still very much on the list.So, we have a lot of ideas for America already sorted out.”

Jeremy Clarkson has angered Twitter critics further by doubling down on his remarks about the heatwave currently sweeping through England, France and other countries. Despite facing backlash for his dismissive comments yesterday, he has continued to insist that “all is well”, as he enjoyed a cold beer in France. Jeremy, 62, was blasted on Twitter yesterday after controversially weighing in on the extremely hot weather that could see Britain reach temperatures as high as 40 degrees celsius.The Clarkson’s Farm presenter angered Twitter users when he mockingly compared British concerns about the heat to the attitude from the public in France. Last night, Jeremy pushed it further, writing: “Really hot in France this evening. “But I’ve had a beer and all is well,” he added.The UK is facing its biggest heatwave of the summer so far, with London being tipped to become even hotter than places like Morocco today and yesterday. People took to the comments section once more to share their thoughts on Jeremy’s take of the situation.Some were not impressed, with Christopher Ashton writing: “There are people struggling in the heat, remember that.“20 years ago I was on dialysis.

Jeremy Clarkson’s ex-girlfriend Phillipa Sage claims he told her they were meant to be together – shortly before he went out with his current girlfriend.The Top Gear presenter, 62, is currently dating Lisa Hogan, but dated Phillipa, 52, after meeting while working on the show together.She previously told Hertfordshire Life that she was a ‘PA, goffer and fixer’ to Jeremy on BBC’s Top Gear Live.They were a couple for seven years before splitting in 2017, with Phillipa once sharing that it took her ‘a long time’ to move on from the break up.Now, she’s reflecting back on their romance, telling Mail Online that Jeremy was once full of nothing but adoration for her.‘He’d actually told me, “I was born for you”, and asked me to stay the night a few days before he was out with Lisa,’ she began.‘Then, one of my friends pointed out the photograph of him with another woman. I thought, “Oh yes, she’s definitely his type.

Top Gear trio, James embarked on the new project by himself as he set out to explore Italy.However, fans have since taken to Twitter to express their disbelief after spotting a “ghost” walking in some of the latest episode’s frames.Meanwhile, James tried to find a rational explanation to the seemingly paranormal appearances as he thanked fans for their concern.He tweeted: “My thanks to everyone who has pointed out the ‘ghost’ in ep3 of my new Italy series.“Nobody saw it at the time, so it’s either a real ghost or (more likely but also more boring) just a bit of digital file corruption.”Twitter user Fastandqurious said: “@MrJamesMay @primevideouk In episode 3 of our man in Italy at 35 mins 51 seconds you can see a faded man walking from the left side of the screen to the right side slowly disappearing as he walks.“Did we just see a ghost on tv? Or was it some editing problem?”Caddelle_artist told James: “Digital corruption. Hmmm not a chance.“Maybe if you were recording in analogue.

James May, 59, has revealed that he is “worried” after having built his new home with partner Sarah Frater. While the former Top Gear star isn’t married, he and Sarah have been together for the past two decades.James has shared that he and Sarah recently built themselves a new house, after years of living in what he described as “places on the way”.However, now that he has found a more permanent home, the motor enthusiast admitted he did have a few fears.“I'm living in a house that feels like a destination, and it's slightly disturbing,” he explained.“I'm just worried I'll end up thinking, right, I've done all that now.“I had a good crack at it and was very fortunate and now I'll - and I can't stand this expression - 'enjoy the rest of my life'.“Because I don't think I will.

She added: "We have had difficult times but when I look back at our marriage and see where we are now, I think, ‘Wow, you know, we’ve done alright!’"I first met Paddy 14 years ago and now we’ve got three gorgeous kids, we’ve been married for 11 years, we’re both busier than ever, but doing really great stuff.“I couldn’t ask for anything more from him. I’m so grateful.“I’m happy, I’ve got no complaints,” the mum-of-three concluded in an interview with OK!Paddy and Christine share twins Penelope and Leo, both nine, and six-year-old Felicity together.Christine has previously been outspoken on the controversial photos that showed Paddy walking arm-in-arm with another woman.Paddy was pictured walking with another woman in the early hours of the morning in snaps that were leaked on Instagram - prompting people to reach out to Christine telling her to leave him.Addressing the day the photos surfaced, Christine said: “In the space of a few hours, suddenly everyone had an opinion of my marriage, and I didn't know what was going on myself."I felt physically sick.

In a new interview, the Grand Tour host, 59, explained the three aren’t as close as fans might think, as he explained they have different lifestyles and political views.James said that a common misconception shared by many viewers was that the three of them might at first appear to be “a bit Brexit, or a bit UKIP".However, he went on to say that none of the three are actually like that in reality.He added that out of the trio, he was definitely the least conservative-minded.The motorhead added that while Richard and Jeremy are “trying to join the aristocracy” and “wear waistcoats and tweed”, such a lifestyle doesn’t appeal to him.He explained: “One of the things that’s always worried me about what we do is that we might seem to be a bit sort of Brexit and a bit UKIP“And actually, none of us are. I’m probably the least [like that] of the three of us.”“Obviously the other two are just trying to join the aristocracy.“They wear waistcoats and tweed and scratch about on their estates.

Paddy McGuiness sparked concern surrounding the state of his marriage to Christine McGuinness after a newly-posted video on Chris Baber's Instagram appeared to show he'd removed his heart-shaped tattoo - a tribute to his wife. The Top Gear host, 48, got the inking to make up for losing his wedding ring on two separate occasions in recent years. Following this several unearthed extracts featured in model Christine's first autobiography A Beautiful Nightmare said the Full Monty star would "never kick husband Paddy out." "People go through difficult times in marriage, family, work, life - everything," Christine told readers.

Jeremy Clarkson's ex-girlfriend Phillipa Sage has claimed the Top Gear host turned down iconic hitmaker Madonna to be with her in an excerpt of her new book, The Wonderful World of Jeremy Clarkson – My Life on the Road.The duo were reportedly together when Phillipa worked on the favourite BBC series before splitting in 2017.Now, events organiser Phillipa has claimed that Clarkson turned the Material Girl singer down for her.She also added that she met some of Hollywood's biggest A-listers while she and the Grand Tour host were together.She claimed: "On one of my first dinners with Jeremy, he claimed to have turned down Madonna to spend the evening with me"It proved to be true because Clarkson has a social life with some of the most powerful, famous and wealthy people in the world," an excerpt from her book The Wonderful World of Jeremy Clarkson – My Life on the Road with Jeremy read which was featured in The Sun.She went on to add that during the time she spent with Clarkson she met a whole host of stars and celebrities while flying first class around the world.Phillipa added that she and the Top Gear star often "holidayed on private islands" together.She went to claim she met A-list royalty Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz who she was quick to gush over.It comes after Phillipa claimed she suffered a breakdown after her relationship with Clarkson ended.Speaking on the Driven Chat Podcast last year, she said: "I think it was about seven years we were officially together."It was pretty intense and high speed."When probed on her current relationship with Clarkson, she added: "We are vaguely in touch, yeah, but I’m pretty bruised by it so I don't get too involved."Addressing the end of their relationship, Sage continued: "It took