Top Gear petrolhead Paddy McGuinness was once arrested... after stealing petrol.
The car show host and BBC co-presenter Freddie Flintoff admit their tearaway pasts in new books.
Paddy says in My Lifey that he drove his first car aged 17 with “no licence, no insurance and no MOT.”
He added: “I did have a tax disc. It’d been taken out of somebody’s car.”
His worst experience was getting arrested for siphoning petrol.
“The next thing I knew, I was in the holding cells at Bolton Police Station. The thought of my mum finding out s*** the living daylights out of me.”
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He said after that he never went too far. Paddy, now 48, added: “You hear about d***head drivers crashing with no insurance, but in my teenage years those thoughts didn’t enter my head.”
While Flintoff, now 43, reveals in The Book of Fred: “I could have been in the back of a nicked car with some older lads. To this day, I still don’t know if they were joyriding.”
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