EXCLUSIVE Top Gear stars Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff keep secret dangerous stunts like Wall of Death from families
Top Gear stars have revealed they keep secret from their families any daredevil stunts for the BBC One show because they “would talk themselves out of doing them”. Both presenters Paddy McGuiness and Freddie Flintoff have admitted they don't tell their wives about anything that might put their lives in peril. The show has a history of calamity. Richard Hammond suffered a life-threatening brain injury when he crashed a rocket car on an airstrip in 2006. Several years later he made a miraculous escape from a burning electric car after a hill climb. Flintoff has now taken on the daredevil mantle, driving a car off the wall of a dam on the end of a bungee rope. All three have attempted to drive around the so-called “Wall of Death”. Flintoff said he’s not shied away from any stunt yet. “So far there’s been nothing I've said ‘no’ to but that might change because after doing the bungee in the last series. It seems the challenges get more and more scary. We did the wall of death which ...