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9 Nov 2023, 17:27
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Top Gear host Chris Harris has opened up about his friend and co-host Freddie Flintoff’s “serious” crash.
Speaking in an interview with The Times published on Thursday, 9th November, the automotive journalist shared that first and foremost: “I’m just over the moon that my friend Fred is still with us.”
Chris described the near year-long period which has passed since the 45-year-old’s near-fatal accident as “a tough time”, but added: “If there is only one good thing that comes out of it, it is that there’s been dignity. Fred’s been given the time to heal.”
Discussing the affect the crash and its sudden halting of Top Gear series 34’s filming had on his own life, the 48-year-old TV presenter told BBC Breakfast while promoting his new book that since the crash he’d struggled with feeling like he “suddenly had nothing to do.”
“I have got another business, which is an online car platform which is great. I do stuff there,” he said.
“But my day job went and you can imagine your muscle memory of working life is really important… if that suddenly stops and suddenly you don’t talk to those people, you don’t see those people, then you go into a slightly dark place. I think I really missed it,” he added.
“I’m sad I’m not doing Top Gear with [Freddie] at the moment, but that’s life, it’s the best thing for him right now,” Chris also said.
The star praised how well the whole Top Gear team have dealt with keeping Freddie out of the spotlight after the crash, which he described as “a serious incident. I’m not going to say any more than that.”
“I’m so proud of the fact that team Top Gear kept everything quiet and we were dignified,” Chris said, elaborating: “there is nothing out there about what happened and there won’t be” and celebrating the fact that “there’s no mole in the organisation.”
Returning to discussing his friend, who is reportedly preparing to make a comeback to TV, Chris added: “I hope you understand, as long as he’s healing, it’s great to see him out and about being passionate about cricket.”
Chris Harris' book Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a Car Tragic is out now.
BBC Breakfast airs every day from 6am on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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