{"id":578322,"date":"2026-08-24T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578322\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T00:58:09","slug":"jimmy-carr-in-talks-to-host-top-gear-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578322\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carr \u2018in talks to host Top Gear reboot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The insider explained: \u201cCasting directors are now working to find talent to join him in the new-look ensemble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBosses are considering a woman and online celebrities to complement Jimmy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\"> Flintoff sustained serious injuries while shooting an episode of Top Gear in late 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The former England cricketer \u2013 who suffered facial and rib injuries in the crash \u2013 subsequently admitted that he struggled to overcome the experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking on Freddie Flintoff\u2019s Field Of Dreams: Ultimate Test, he shared: \u201cIt was, what \u2013 18 months ago? And you know, I\u2019ve suffered with things like depression in the past before, but this time was different. I didn\u2019t know if I had it in me to carry on, not that I wanted to die or anything like that, I just didn\u2019t know if I had it in me, and that took a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe one thing, I think, getting quite deep here, but the one thing you just want to be is happy in yourself, and try and be accepting of yourself of what you are. It took me a long time to be like that, and then the crash put me back again, and now it\u2019s like finding myself or finding the person I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The insider explained: \u201cCasting directors are now working to find talent to join him in the new-look ensemble.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117714,156,24387,12022,78,1736,111,139,69,50541,17182,301,61,3010],"class_list":["post-578322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-carr","tag-entertainment","tag-gear","tag-host","tag-in","tag-jimmy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reboot","tag-reportedly","tag-talks","tag-to","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}