Freddie Flintoff's huge drop in earnings revealed after near-death Top Gear crash

Freddie Flintoff's earnings took a huge hit following his horrifying Top Gear crash that left the former star Thankfully, the 47-year-old pulled through, with his gruesome injuries shown in full for the first time in a new Disney+ documentary.

However, there was a time in his recovery where Freddie - whose real name is - wondered if he had any career left to go back to. Prior to his crash, Freddie Flintoff Enterprises Ltd was making a £1million-a-year profit from his hosting duties.

But this all changed after that fateful day in Surrey in 2022. Accounts showed the star's profit dropped to £256,000 after the crash.

And latest accounts from 2023 to 2024 show he made a loss of almost £647,000, according to .

It's said the popular TV personality's compensation figure from the incident is a "reflection" of his career value, according to an insider. Speaking to the publication, the source said: "He got £9million compensation from Studios, a figure which left many staggered.

"But from 2020 to 2022 he was making almost £1m every year. The huge sum is a reflection of how much he lost in earnings — and how much he stood to lose as he still faces uncertain times."

Freddie's legal team at the time of his settlement told the Sun that the former cricketer was still recovering from "life-alteringly significant" injuries. Now, images of the .

Surgeon Jahrad Haq, who treated Flintoff, told the documentary that Freddie's injuries were "very complex”. The star had a mixture of hard and soft tissue injuries, as well as broken teeth, lost teeth and elements of the upper jaw bone that were also fractured and displaced.

The new documentary also sees Freddie claim TV bosses in the lead up to his Top Gear crash. Speaking about television and the thirst to make everything bigger and better than before, Flintoff says: “I think that is the danger that TV falls into. And I found out the hard way eventually.

“It's always more. Everybody wants more. Everybody wants that thing that nobody's seen before. Everybody wants that bigger stunt. Everybody wants to dig that little bit deeper.

“Everybody wants an exclusive. Everybody wants, oh, let's have that near miss, because then that'll get viewers. Everything's about viewers, always, always.

“And I should have been clever on this, because I learned this in sport as well, with all the injuries and all the injections and all the times I got sent out on a cricket field and just treated like a piece of meat. That's TV and sport. I think that's where it's quite similar. You're just a commodity. You're just a piece of meat.”

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