The BBC has mentioned a choice on Top Gear’s future shall be made in “due course”, amid studies the present shall be cancelled.

It comes after The Sun quoted a “show insider” saying there was “no way it [Top Gear] could continue” following a crash involving presenter Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff.

The former England cricketer suffered a critical crash throughout filming final December.

He was left with damaged ribs and extreme facial accidents, with the remainder of that sequence cancelled.

Flintoff’s son, Corey, mentioned on the time that he was “lucky to be alive” and described it as a “pretty nasty crash”.

With hypothesis the present might now be cancelled for good, a BBC spokesperson mentioned: “A decision on the timing of future Top Gear shows will be made in due course with BBC Content.”

The 45-year-old made a rare public appearance in September, the place his facial accidents have been nonetheless seen 9 months after the crash.

Earlier this month, he was filmed awarding an England cap to bowler Tom Hartley and spoke publicly for the primary time concerning the incident.

He described it as “the hardest” time of his life.

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In the summer season, Flintoff started serving to coach England cricket squads in an unpaid consultancy function.

Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness joined motoring journalist Chris Harris on Top Gear in 2019, taking up from Chris Evans and Friends star Matt LeBlanc.

The present was initially launched in 1977, that includes a variety of presenters and reporters in a half-hourly slot on BBC Two.

It proved common all through the Eighties and Nineties.

But its relaunch in 2002 as an hour-long leisure motoring present, led by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, turned it right into a worldwide hit.