Freddie Flintoff will get set for TV comeback as he movies new mission
Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff is getting set for his TV comeback as he movies a brand new mission this week – after a horror crash on Top Gear put him out of motion for months.
The Ashes hero, 46, is now filming a second collection of his BBC cricket present Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams.
It comes as new footage of him out and about present that his facial accidents look considerably extra healed than throughout his final public look seven months in the past in September 2023.
Freddie was ‘fortunate to be alive’ after his is open-topped three-wheel 130mph Morgan Super 3 automotive, which had no air baggage, flipped over in December 2022, leaving him with extreme facial accidents and several other damaged ribs.
Following the near-fatal crash, the BBC introduced that it could pause Top Gear – and in November final yr it was rested for the ‘foreseeable future’.
Freddie Flintoff is getting set for his TV comeback as he movies new mission after horror Top Gear crash – as new photographs (above) present his accidents are therapeutic
Freddie was ‘fortunate to be alive’ after his is open-topped three-wheel 130mph Morgan Super 3 automotive, which had no air baggage, flipped over in December 2022, leaving him with extreme facial accidents and several other damaged ribs (seen final right here in September 2023)
Freddie, who continues to be recovering from his ‘life-altering important’ accidents, is known to have negotiated a £9million settlement with the company for 2 years’ lack of earnings on account of the crash.
A supply advised The Sun of his return to filming: ‘This might be an enormous consolation to his followers as a result of it exhibits he is therapeutic nicely and returning to 2 of his biggest passions — sport and tv.
‘It’s apparent that there’s some scarring, which everybody anticipated, however Freddie appears to have made big progress since he was final seen in public taking part in cricket.
‘He’s clearly snug sufficient to get in entrance of a digicam once more — one thing which was not the case this time final yr.
‘They’re nervous first steps, as he is recovering each mentally and bodily, however the TV present he is making is an actual ardour mission for him.’
The first Field of Dreams collection featured him returning to his residence metropolis of Preston to recruit kids to the game.
In the subsequent collection he takes them to India – the place the game is vastly in style.
The new pictures of Freddie had been taken in Sri Lanka the place he just lately met members of the Lancashire Cricket Academy on tour.
The Ashes hero, 46, is now filming a second collection of his BBC cricket present Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams (seen with Sri Lankan cricket coach Muttiah Muralitharan)
His facial accidents had been seen for the primary time when he joined up with the England cricket squad in September 2023
The first Field of Dreams collection featured him returning to his residence metropolis of Preston to recruit kids to the game
He smiled as he posed with Sri Lankan cricket coach Muttiah Muralitharan.
Flintoff was driving a Morgan Super 3 – a light-weight ‘trackday’ sports activities automotive with two wheels on the entrance and one on the again – on the Dunsfold check monitor close to Guildford, Surrey on December 13 2022 when it overturned.
The open-top automotive has no airbags, and the cricketer was not sporting a helmet when the automotive flipped at round 22mph – that means he ‘scraped’ his face alongside the tarmac in horrific scenes witnessed by the TV manufacturing crew.
Flintoff reportedly required plenty of surgical procedures following the crash, struggling damaged ribs and facial bones after being dragged alongside the highway.
Several members of workers who witnessed it had been signed off sick, having reportedly been recognized with post-traumatic stress dysfunction – a declare the BBC has denied.
He retreated from the limelight on the behest of his household as a way to get well, breaking cowl for the primary time final yr to teach England cricketers.
Flintoff was photographed for the primary time in public for the reason that crash in September and had seen facial accidents as he joined up with the squad for his or her one-day worldwide collection towards New Zealand.
Flintoff had joined Top Gear as a number in 2019 alongside Paddy McGuinness. They joined Chris Harris from the twenty seventh collection of the BBC Two present in the primary presenting line-up.
In a press release on Top Gear in November, the BBC stated: ‘Given the distinctive circumstances, the BBC has determined to relaxation the UK present for the foreseeable future.
In the subsequent collection he takes them to India – the place the game is vastly in style (seen earlier than the crash)
Filming was suspended on the newest collection of Top Gear after the crash (pictured: Flintoff with co-presenters Chris Harris, left, and Paddy McGuinness, proper)
Flintoff was driving a Morgan Three-Wheeler open-top sports activities automotive (inventory) when it overturned throughout filming at Dunsfold close to Guildford in Surrey
Flintoff has been in a mentoring function with the England facet for the reason that summer season collection with New Zealand
The former all-rounder performed an important function in England’s 2005 Ashes profitable collection
‘The BBC stays dedicated to Freddie, Chris and Paddy who’ve been on the coronary heart of the present’s renaissance since 2019, and we’re enthusiastic about new initiatives being developed with every of them.
‘We could have extra to say within the close to future on this. We know resting the present might be disappointing information for followers, however it’s the proper factor to do.
‘All different Top Gear exercise stays unaffected by this hiatus together with worldwide codecs, digital, magazines and licensing.’
