‘Top Gear’ Host Chris Harris Tells Joe Rogan: I Warned BBC “Someone Is Going To Die” Before Freddie Flintoff Crash Forced Show Off Road
deadline.comTop Gear presenter Chris Harris has ripped open the bonnet on one of the darkest chapters in the motoring show’s history — and it makes ugly listening for the BBC.
Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Harris revealed that he warned the BBC that “someone is going to die” on Top Gear unless health and safety standards were improved.
Harris said he made his concerns known months before co-host Freddie Flintoff suffered serious facial injuries during an accident at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey on December 13, 2022. “Three months before the accident, I’d gone to the BBC and said: ‘Unless you change something, someone’s going to die on this show,’” Harris told Rogan.
The automotive journalist said he felt a responsibility to the safety of his co-presenters, Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, because he was the most experienced driver of the three.
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