Noel Edmonds boasted about driving his sports car at 186mph while NAKED at 4.30am
The 69-year-old took his Ford GT40 out for an early morning spin in his birthday suit in the mid-80s
NOEL EDMONDS once boasted about driving his sports car at 186mph while NAKED at 4.30am.
The 69-year-old presenter has always been a fan of fast cars and owned a number of expensive vehicles in his heyday.
In a 2006 interview with lads' mag Loaded, Noel revealed how he had woke up one morning and decided to take his Ford GT40 out for a spin in his birthday suit.
He said: "I thought I’d take it out for a breather, the poor thing was stuck in its stable and needed exercise.
"I remember arriving at a roundabout horrendously fast, I almost didn’t stop."
The revelation angered road safety chiefs at the time, leading Noel's agent Mark Borkowski to say: "This happened 20 years ago when he woke up early one morning, stark naked and wanted to drive.
"But Noel accepts the thing about speed and fast cars is that it should be done in the appropriate places and in experienced hands."
Meanwhile Noel is set to join I'm a Celebrity today, and revealed he had signed up to the ITV show as he was too sexy for Strictly Come Dancing.
The TV veteran revealed to The Sun he has made a pact with his wife Liz Davies to steer clear of the Strictly “curse”.
Instead, she has been helping him prepare for the Aussie bush by role-playing possible scenarios.
And she stood patiently by as he adjusted his palate — by eating worms from their garden.
Noel admitted to The Sun: “I have been asked to do Strictly. Liz is a fully-trained singer and dancer and a couple of years ago she said, ‘Why don’t we cheat? Why don’t we say you’re a novice and I’ll teach you before’.
“Then I think there was one of those curse moments and I said to her, ‘Are you comfortable with me spending five or six days a week with a half-naked woman draped all over me?’ And it’s funny how the conversation just changed.
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