Viewers have been given a first look at a new Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris BBC show on how to life a long life.
The new series, Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping, will start on Sunday September 29 and will be shown in three parts.
In a sneak peek, the pair are seen surfing, trying out rollercoasters, working out in the woods and even testing cosmetics as they find out how Europeans make the most of their later years.
The midlife pair will also meet some of the ‘healthiest, happiest and long-lived people’ on the continent, while visiting countries including Sweden, Switzerland and Greece.
McGuinness and Harris’s new show will also share ways to ‘age gracefully, or less dis-gracefully’.
The new trailer comes barely a week after Harris revealed he had warned bosses at the Corporation of dangers ahead of Freddie Flintoff’s high speed car crash.
A new series hosted by Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris exploring the secret to a long life will air on BBC One from September 29
A new sneak peek at the series includes Paddy and Chris riding a rollercoaster while touring Europe
Harris appears to look in surprise as he is handed something during the video
McGuinness squirming as he samples a product. The show will explore ways to ‘age gracefully’
Top Gear presenters Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris, pictured in 2018. The new trailer comes a week after Harris revealed that he had warned bosses about dangers on the show prior to Flintoff’s horror crash
The Top Gear presenter, 49, said he feared Flintoff had died during the accident at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.
Flintoff was left with serious facial and rib injuries following the crash, which occurred while Mr Harris was on set.
Speaking to The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Mr Harris said: ‘What was never spoken about was that three months before the accident, I’d gone to the BBC and said, unless you change something, someone’s going to die on this show.
‘So I went to them, I went to the BBC, and I told them of my concerns from what I’d seen as the most experienced driver on the show by a mile.
‘I said if we carry on at the very least, we’re going to have a serious injury; at the very worst, we’re going to have a fatality.
‘And I think what happened with Top Gear was I saw repeatedly too many times my two co-hosts who didn’t have the experience I had in cars. This is the critical thing.’
He added that he himself broke a finger during an earlier stunt involving go-karts in Thailand with co-presenter Mr McGuiness, after which he asked the BBC’s head of health and safety for a meeting.
McGuinness, Flintoff and Harris on the embankment of the River Thames. Harris said last week that he had aired concerns to BBC chiefs about safety, saying his two co-hosts didn’t have his experience in cars
In a response to a health and safety report published in November 2023, which did not cover Flintoff’s incident, BBC Studios said: ‘The independent Health and Safety production review of Top Gear, which looked at previous seasons, found that while BBC Studios had complied with the required BBC policies and industry best practice in making the show, there were important learnings which would need to be rigorously applied to future Top Gear UK productions.
‘The report includes a number of recommendations to improve approaches to safety as Top Gear is a complex programme-making environment routinely navigating tight filming schedules and ambitious editorial expectations – challenges often experienced by long-running shows with an established on and off screen team.
‘Learnings included a detailed action plan involving changes in the ways of working, such as increased clarity on roles and responsibilities and better communication between teams for any future Top Gear production.’
Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping will air on BBC One from September 29.
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