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TV & Satellite Week
|October 29, 2022
The Top Gear boys buckle up for a hair- raising adventure in the Far East
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An exotic road trip to a far-flung destination is a Top Gear staple, so Chris Harris, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness were delighted to be travelling to Thailand for the first episode of the new series. Tasked with road-testing three pick-up trucks, the lads headed to Bangkok, where Flintoff’s trip was unexpectedly cut short.
‘I was a day and a half into the trip, and I wasn’t feeling at my best,’ he explains. ‘I tested positive for COVID, and that was me isolating in Thailand on my own. The other two just drove off and carried on!’
This story is from the October 29, 2022 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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