BGT chiefs axe footage of Ant McPartlin driving Union flag painted Jag after drink drive shame

BRITAIN’S Got Talent producers have canned footage of Ant McPartlin taking a spin in a Union Jack coloured Jag after his drink-drive shame.

The presenter, 42, filmed the scene around a mile from where he crashed his Mini into two oncoming cars just five days later.

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The Saturday Night Takeaway star was banned from driving for 20 months over the March 18 incident in West London and slapped with a record £86,000 fine.

The film of him in the Jag driving around Richmond Park with Declan Donnelly in the passenger seat was to have featured as a skit on the show.

But while ITV will keep other pre-recorded scenes with Ant, the car segment will go. A BGT insider said: “Bosses have been forced to drop the footage. It would have been inappropriate and insensitive.”

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