Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris’s show Road Tripping won’t be renewed for another series.
Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping saw the former Top Gear presenters try to find the secret to ageing well as they travelled around Europe.
But sadly for fans, The Sun reports the show won’t be coming back - despite good ratings, as 3.2 million tuned in for the first episode in September last year.
“Whilst viewers can enjoy all episodes of Road Tripping on BBC iPlayer now, there are currently no plans for any new episodes at the moment,” a BBC spokesperson told the paper.
The TV insider added to the paper that “it certainly wouldn’t have helped that just a few weeks before the show began on the Beeb, host Chris was slating the corporation following Freddie Flintoff’s horror crash while they were filming Top Gear”.
They added: “The timing was not great, but by that stage Road Trippin’, which saw Chris reunited with Paddy without Freddie, had already been made and was ready to go out on air.”
The Standard has contacted the BBC for comment.
Road Tripping was the first show Freddie and Chris appeared in together since former England cricketer Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff, 46, was badly hurt in an accident while filming Top Gear at Dunsfold Aerodrome in December 2022, which led to the show being rested for the “foreseeable future” by the BBC.
Earlier this week, Flintoff backed a campaign to help more hospitals get helipads after his own experience of medical air support following the crash.
The former international cricketer was airlifted to St George’s Hospital in Tooting – a major trauma centre.
The helipad at the hospital was funded by a campaign with the Helicopter Emergency Landing Pads (Help) Appeal.
As he backed the campaign, Flintoff said: “When I was airlifted, that helipad wasn’t just a safe spot to land on the hospital roof, it was a vital step in giving me a second chance as I had immediate access to the specialist care which helped saved my life.
“As every cricket pitch has a wicket, every hospital that needs one should have a helipad.”
Robert Bertram, chief executive of the Help Appeal, said: “We are incredibly grateful to have Freddie’s support, especially knowing that his life was saved thanks, in part, to a Help Appeal-funded helipad.”
The Help Appeal said that there have been 30,000 landings on the 32 NHS hospital helipads funded by the charity across the country.
