{"id":9431,"date":"2021-04-15T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:52:34","slug":"tap-interviews-top-gear-hosts-freddie-flintoff-chris-harris-and-paddy-mcguiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2021\/04\/15\/tap-interviews-top-gear-hosts-freddie-flintoff-chris-harris-and-paddy-mcguiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap interviews Top Gear hosts Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Gear <\/strong>is back on BBC Brit (DStv ch. 120) from 15 April at 8pm and its utter carnage!\u00a0 In their fourth series at the wheel of Top Gear<strong>, Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness,<\/strong> hit the road again in a series of challenges designed to push them and their cars to the limit.<\/p>\n<p>From a sparks-flying Titanium-shoed Freddie Flintoff being dragged along a Scottish runway by The Stig in an Ariel Nomad to a nostalgic and emotional drive down memory lane through the Lake District in their Dads\u2019 cars \u2013 the trio\u2019s fourth series together has something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Series highlights see the trio tackling the thorny issue of \u2018mid-life crisis\u2019 cars and heading to the Scottish Highlands on a punishing off-road adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming season also sees the Top Gear team up with the\u00a0007 franchise\u00a0to pay tribute to some of the iconic movie series\u2019 best loved \u2013 and less well known \u2013 cars. Paddy, Freddie and Chris get to live out their boyhood fantasies in a smorgasbord of 007 automobiles including the classic Aston Martin DB5 first seen in\u00a0<em>Goldfinger\u00a0<\/em>and the decapitated Renault 11 Parisienne taxi Roger Moore famously piloted in\u00a0<em>A View To A Kill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Harris, a total \u00a0Bond obsessive had this to say on the Bond cars segment, \u2018\u2019I love the cars and I watch the filmsalmost religiously with my kids because they\u2019re one of the ultimate viewing experiences. Bond manages to do what we\u2019re\u00a0 trying to achieve with Top Gear \u2013producing content you can sit and watch with \u00a0little \u00a0people where both age groups feel they\u2019re getting\u00a0 something they \u00a0want \u00a0to \u00a0watch.\u00a0\u00a0 So, to get access to the back catalogue of Bond cars was amazing and I love the fact that we feature some of the cars you\u2019d forgotten about. \u00a0And, of course, we dressed up as some Bondcharacters, which should keep people amused.<\/p>\n<p>Petrolheads will be savouring Freddie\u2019s race in the battery-powered off-road Extreme E against a Jetpack man plus reviews of the new Lamborghini Sian, the Toyota GR Yaris and the Ferrari Roma.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019This series has been more fun than ever before,\u2019\u2019 said Freddie Flintoff!<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest season on <strong>BBC Brit (DStv channel 120), from\u00a0Thursday, 15 April at 8pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/streaming.fabrik.fm\/fabrik\/echocast\/player\/rewind-single\/player.html?id=911bf04b-f407-4d12-bf38-f5392b28d26c&amp;web_url=https:\/\/echocast.fabrik.fm\/MQnMPG57X4Nq2q&amp;podcast_id=484daf5c-8d5a-4c82-a448-3587701fe2ac\" width=\"60%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a>Podcast stream by Fabrik.fm<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Gear is back on BBC Brit (DStv ch. 120) from 15 April at 8pm and its utter carnage!\u00a0 In their fourth series at the wheel of Top Gear, Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness, hit the road again in a series of challenges designed to push them and ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/topgear_slider.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}