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BBC issues fresh statement on Top Gear amid Freddie Flintoff recovery

An executive from the BBC has revealed that returning to film for Top Gear would be 'really inappropriate' as Freddie Flintoff recovers from an accident which took place while filming for the show back in December.

The 45-year-old presenter, who's first name is Andrew, was involved in a freak accident at the Dunsfold Aerodrome, Surrey, last year while filming on the Top Gear test track.

And last month, the British Broadcasting Corporation announced that 'it would be inappropriate to resume making series 34 of Top Gear' at the time, after an internal investigation into the incident which left Flintoff airlifted to hospital.

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