Paddy McGuinness breaks silence after it was once printed he’s livid Freddie Flintoff were given £9m payout following Top Gear crash that ended display

Paddy McGuinness has damaged his silence following Andrew Flintoff’s admission that he hasn’t spoken to his former Top Gear co-host since his horror crash. 

Flintoff, a former England captain, suffered severe accidents when filming for the BBC TV display Top Gear in December 2022, with a documentary launched on Disney+ this week detailing his studies and restoration.

The cricket legend became presenter have been using a Morgan Super 3 three-wheeled sports activities automobile, which flipped and dragged him around the tarmac of Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.

The car had no airbags and the crash left Flintoff with critical facial accidents and several other damaged ribs. 

Flintoff won a £9m payout from the BBC following the crash, with the famous person having since criticised the company for treating him ‘like a work of meat’ on Top Gear in a bid to draw extra TV audience.

Within the 98-minute programme, Flintoff printed that he has slightly spoken to McGuiness and Harris, in spite of having a particularly shut bond with the pair whilst at the display. 

Flintoff (pictured in 2018) printed he has slightly spoken to McGuiness or Harris

Flintoff was once left with severe facial accidents and several other damaged ribs after a near-fatal automobile crash when he was once filming Top Gear along McGuinness in December 2022

Now, despite the fact that, McGuinness has unfolded on his courting with Flintoff, nicknamed Freddie, admitting his love for his former co-star, consistent with the Mirror. 

‘I really like Fred. He’s a just right lad. The mad factor about me getting on with him so neatly is that I do know completely 0 about cricket. I’ve by no means watched it, by no means been into it and not performed it. I knew of Freddie and Ian Botham and Michael Vaughan… the well-known names.

‘Me, Fred and Chris [Harris] on a regular basis we labored in combination we simply laughed. It was once one of these beautiful enjoy. It was once a kind of jobs for me, as any person who wasn’t neatly travelled to talk over with the puts we did in Top Gear and pass off the overwhelmed observe. 

‘It was once most effective after I replicate at the issues we did that I believe what a privilege it’s to have accomplished that task. Freddie and I nonetheless message. But everybody’s were given busy lives. 

‘It’s like with each and every display I do, you’re employed with other people and also you be in contact however nobody lives close to everybody. It’s like lightning in a bottle getting everybody in combination.’

The Daily Mail’s Katie Hind reported on Thursday night time that McGuinness felt he must have won a payoff from the BBC after Top Gear was once axed within the wake of Flintoff’s crash.

One supply informed MailOnline: ‘Paddy was moaning because he had lost his job, the show went so really it was a case of him being made redundant.

‘It was a big income for him and suddenly it was gone after Freddie’s coincidence.

McGuinness believed he must have won a pay out from the BBC when Top Gear was once canned, MailOnline can expose

The tv presenter complained to pals that he believed that like Flintoff he must were given money as a result of he misplaced an source of revenue

‘He couldn’t perceive why he didn’t get a pay out, I assume you’ll see his level. Freddie did get one however he was once so badly injured.

‘His lifestyles modified, he didn’t depart the home for months and months and whilst it was once unhappy for Paddy that his task had long gone, he did pass on to search out different paintings,;

BBC insiders have speculated that Paddy’s dissatisfied at no longer getting a pay out can have been the explanation why the Corporation created a brand new display, Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping along Chris Harris.

‘The talk at the Beeb is that was done to appease him,’ stated one.

Flintoff and McGuinness had a transparent chemistry on digital camera, and shared a detailed courting, however the former cricketer expressed his fear that seeing his former co-star would deliver again painful reminiscences. 

‘We’ve been involved,’ he stated. ‘When I noticed Chris we hugged each and every different, he were given dissatisfied and I were given just a little bit dissatisfied. 

‘I think dangerous I have never been extra involved with him and Paddy. I believe there have been some feedback that I’ve no longer spoken with Paddy for some time and a part of it’s for myself just a little bit.

‘I hate the phrase triggering… however I’m frightened about that. It’s additionally one thing that has stopped on account of what is came about to me. Their careers were halted as neatly. 

An symbol following the scary crash was once launched as a part of the trailer for the Disney+ documentary

Mr Jahrad Haq (proper), an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, operated on Flintoff, who had in depth injury to each the laborious and comfortable tissue of his face

The former England cricket famous person became TV presenter misplaced a good portion of his lips

Flintoff is observed taking a look on the reconstructive paintings in a replicate as a part of the documentary trailer

‘So I think dangerous for them and in addition it is like what came about will get dragged up sufficient in my very own head with out including to that (by way of seeing them).’

In the documentary, known as ‘Flintoff‘, which takes an intimate and remarkable glance into 47-year-old’s lifestyles, bright main points of the crash and his next restoration is laid naked.

In the movie Flintoff admitted in that he had needed he had died within the fast aftermath of the crash.

He printed his greatest concern was once that he ‘did not assume I had a face’, mentioning he concept his face ‘had come off’ within the horror crash.

The movie, by way of BAFTA-award profitable director John Dower, is the primary time the cricketer has spoken in unfiltered element concerning the coincidence within the Morgan Super 3 sports activities automobile.

The documentary, which premiered in London previous this week, options an unflinching have a look at Flintoff’s accidents following the crash.

‘I believed I used to be useless, as a result of I used to be aware however I could not see the rest,’ he stated – realising seconds later his hat had fallen over his eyes.

But as he lifted it up, he seemed down to peer blood – and was once terrified that he not had a face. 

Flintoff had expressed considerations for McGuinness’ occupation being halted on account of his coincidence

Flintoff printed that retaining his distance from McGuiness was once partially for his personal restoration

Flintoff has needed to go through in depth surgical procedures to his enamel and face because the coincidence

‘I believed my face had come off. I used to be apprehensive to loss of life,’ he stated.

Crippled by way of anxiousness, Flintoff remained housebound for the following seven months, most effective venturing out for appointments with medical doctors and dentists. 

He in the end constructed up the braveness to stand the general public once more all through the 2023 Ashes, to start with gazing incognito along long-term pal Rob Key, the ECB’s males’s director of cricket. 

Soon afterwards, he introduced a training occupation with the assistance of Key that has since observed him take price of England Lions.

‘When Andrew needed it most, cricket was there for him. Cricket saved him. It gave him a reason for being again,’ stated Flintoff’s spouse Rachael.

Flintoff is without doubt one of the largest England cricketers of the 21st century, and his heroics as a talismanic all-rounder had been an important to the 2005 Ashes win.