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.
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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