{"id":250248,"date":"2025-11-07T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250248\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:50:10","slug":"luke-littler-left-shaking-with-nerves-after-paparazzi-motorway-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250248\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Littler left ‘shaking with nerves’ after paparazzi motorway chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darts ace Luke Littler has revealed he was chased on a motorway by a photographer just days after passing his driving test.<\/p>\n

The incident left the world number one “shaking with nerves\u201d after a freelance photographer tried to get pictures of him driving his new car.<\/p>\n

He passed his practical exam in Warrington, Cheshire without a single fault, having failed his theory test six times.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old revealed that he was able to buy his dream car, a new BMW, in an Instagram post on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He said: “On Wednesday, I was driving up to (girlfriend) Faith\u2019s, and I was getting followed.<\/p>\n

“I made the latest exit that you could possibly do on a motorway.<\/p>\n

“I came off so late and then so did he. And I think I did about three U-turns, he did the same, but I was just shaking with nerves.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019d been driving for two days getting followed on a motorway. So that\u2019s why I posted the car so he couldn\u2019t sell his pictures. So that\u2019s for him.”<\/p>\n

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Luke Littler revealed he was chased on a motorway by a photographer<\/p>\n

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Littler added: “I know it\u2019s the job, but following me on the motorway \u2013 it\u2019s dead busy. I was nervous and stuff. But, yeah, that\u2019s why I posted the car so he couldn\u2019t do it.”<\/p>\n

He said his new vehicle, which has a personalised registration plate, was actually bought in May and acted as motivation following an embarrassing run of failed theories.<\/p>\n

He said: “I just wanted to pass as soon as possible. Believe it or not, I bought the car in May.<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t buy it yesterday. When I put it on my story, I\u2019ve had it for quite a few months now.”<\/p>\n

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Litter said: “As soon as I bought the car I was like, \u2018Let\u2019s just try and get this theory over and done with\u2019. I didn\u2019t want to do any lessons until I passed the theory.<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t have many hours learning, but I just got used to it. I\u2019ve only gone for the automatic, none of all that manual stuff.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s very different and it was a bit nervy on my test. I didn\u2019t know who the instructor was but I\u2019m glad I passed. I got zero minors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Littler is preparing to defend his Grand Slam of Darts title in Wolverhampton next week.<\/p>\n

\"LukeLuke Littler poses with his certificate after passing his driving test | INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n

His success was announced by his driving school on Instagram, which posted online: \u201cCongratulations to Luke Littler on passing his driving test today at Warrington on his first attempt with ZERO driving faults.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely amazing achievement, well done \u2014 now enjoy that car!\u201d<\/p>\n

In a second major achievement this week, Littler was voted the world\u2019s sexiest sportsman in an IllicitEncounters.com survey, which he explained was hard to believe.<\/p>\n

Littler said: “I saw something on the news on my phone. I thought, \u2018Surely, this can\u2019t be true\u2019.<\/p>\n

“When then I saw it on ITV news. I was just like, \u2018Fair enough\u2019. I have no idea if there\u2019s a trophy, I didn\u2019t even know it was a thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darts ace Luke Littler has revealed he was chased on a motorway by a photographer just days after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,17321,96,217,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-250248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-darts","tag-entertainment","tag-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}