Paddy McGuinness speaks out for the primary time over not seeing Freddie Flintoff for 2 years
Paddy McGuinness has spoken out about his friendship with Freddie Flintoff after the previous cricket ace revealed they’ve barely spoken within the final two years.
The Bolton-born comic, 51, has revealed the place he stands along with his former Prime Gear co-star following the devastating crash which left Flintoff with life-changing accidents.
The cricket legend and TV presenter, 47, had been filming a section for the hit BBC automotive present again in December 2022 when the open-topped Morgan Tremendous 3 he was driving an flipped over.
Flintoff was not sporting a crash helmet and regardless of the automotive solely shifting at a velocity of 22mph, he suffered some horrific accidents – the extent of which have been laid naked in stunning new photographs.
Fellow Prime Gear star Chris Harris watched the entire thing unfold and stated he initially thought Flintoff was lifeless, as he could not see the dad shifting.
Flintoff has now opened up about his ordeal in a brand new documentary, merely titled Flintoff, sharing additional particulars of how the crash impacted his life.
Prime Gear was placed on hiatus after the crash and the BBC stated it will not return for the ‘foreseeable future’, although Flintoff’s co-presenters have since labored collectively on Paddy and Chris: Highway Tripping.
In Flintoff, the cricketer stated he’d had a detailed bond with them each, however hadn’t spoken to them very a lot for the reason that crash.
He stated: “We’ve been in touch, I noticed Chris truly. We hugged one another, he bought upset, I bought upset. It was very nice to see him.
“And I really feel unhealthy I haven’t been extra in touch with him and Paddy. I believe there was some feedback on Paddy some time in the past saying I’ve not spoken to him, not executed this, that and the opposite.
“And a part of it’s, for myself slightly bit, you understand what I imply?
“I hate the phrase triggering however I’m nervous about that. It’s additionally one thing stopped in some methods I suppose due to what occurred to me, like, their careers have been altered as effectively, so I really feel, not responsible however I really feel unhealthy for them.”
Now, McGuinness has instructed of his unwavering ‘love’ for Flintoff, whereas revealing their unlikely bond – regardless of the Max and Paddy actor figuring out nothing about cricket.
The previous Take Me Out presenter stated, as per the Mirror: “I really like Fred. He’s lad. The mad factor about me getting on with him so effectively is that I do know completely zero about cricket.
“I’ve by no means watched it, by no means been into it and by no means performed it. I knew of Freddie and Ian Botham and Michael Vaughan…the well-known names.”
He went on to fondly recall how he, Flintoff and Harris would ‘simply chortle’ whereas working alongside one another on a regular basis, describing it as a ‘beautiful expertise’.
“It was a type of jobs for me, as somebody who wasn’t effectively travelled to go to the locations we did in Prime Gear and go off the overwhelmed monitor,” McGuinness stated.
“It was solely after I replicate on the issues we did that I believe what a privilege it’s to have executed that job. Freddie and I nonetheless message.
“However everybody’s bought busy lives. It’s like with each present I do, you’re employed with folks and also you keep up a correspondence however nobody lives close to everybody. It’s like lightning in a bottle getting everybody collectively.”
I might like to be a fly on the wall of that reunion, would not you?
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