Richard Bacon shares dramatic images as his car bursts into flames on LA road
TV presenter Richard Bacon has shared that he and his family were involved in a shocking incident when his car went up in flames
Video Loading
Click to play
Tap to play
The video will start in 8Cancel
Richard Bacon has revealed that his car went up in flames in the middle of the road in California.
The British TV star, 44, who lives in Los Angeles, was inside the vehicle with his wife, Rebecca McFarlane, and his children Arthur, eight, and six-year-old Ivy.
Richard took to social media after the horrifying event to share that he and his family were unharmed and he uploaded a number of photos of his black 4x4 vehicle engulfed in flames, as well as videos of the fire brigade putting the fire out and his car being towed away from the scene.
Detailing what happened to his fans, he penned on the micro-blogging page: "I guess we’re gonna need a lift home.
"Thanks to the lovely Santa Monica fire department and the delightful people on the PCH who stopped to help. The car started making a funny noise as we drove home from Malibu. Then dramatically caught fire.
"Because we’ve seen a lot of films we moved back thinking it might explode. It didn’t. Apparently that’s just a movie thing.
"All four of us were in there. Everyone fine and happy. May not go with Land Rover next time."
Richard Bacon was recently mortified when his children asked their Amazon Alexa about him – and the robotic machine proceeded to tell them about his past cocaine shame.
The television presenter was famously fired from hosting children’s TV show Blue Peter in 1998 after admitting to taking the Class A drug.
The kids were curious about their father and decided to ask the family Alexa – an electronic virtual assistant programmed to answer questions – about their father.
When the machine began to mention Richard’s past with illegal substances, he was forced to spring in to action to shut the device down.
Richard recounted the moment to Andy Coulson on the podcast Crisis? What Crisis?.
He explained: “I am sitting in a room in my house in Los Angeles and there is one of those Amazon Alexas next to me and my kids said, ‘Oh Alexa, who is Richard Bacon?’
“And it comes up straight away, ‘Richard Bacon is an English television presenter. He was fired from Blue Peter in 1998 for taking…”
“I jumped in and said, ‘Alexa stop. Stop’. They said, ‘What are you saying stop for? Why did you get fired?’ And then they asked again.”
Richard then commented on his disbelief that his drug scandal past was still at the top of the agenda, 21 years after the event.
The presenter was 22 when he was unceremoniously sacked from Blue Peter after confessing to taking cocaine in a London nightclub.
He returned to the show in 2018 for the 60th anniversary of Blue Peter.
MirrorCeleb
More On