I’m A Celebrity star Harry Redknapp was involved in a terrifying car crash which killed four other people. Following the accident, he no longer has a sense of smell
I’m A Celebrity star Harry Redknapp was left for dead following a harrowing car crash that caused him not to be able to smell.
The football manager has recalled how he was on his way to watch the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy with a host of others from the sports world. He was with three other people when their minibus collided with a car that had three Italian soldiers in.
Harry would usually sit in a particular seat in the car, but that day AFC Bournemouth managing director Brian Tiler decided to sit in the same seat. In the harrowing crash, Brian was killed alongside the three soldiers.
Harry was doused in petrol and, amongst other injuries, suffered a fractured skull, a broken nose, and cracked ribs. He made a full recovery, although he lost his sense of smell.
Speaking about the crash, he recalled: “The doctors, I’m told, also thought I was dead upon arrival at the hospital. But I was lucky. I had fractured my skull, broken several bones, and suffered a horrific gash to my leg, but I don’t think the injuries, though serious, were ever life-threatening, despite those first impressions.”
During his previous stint on I’m A Celebrity, Harry took on dunny duty – as with no sense of smell, it didn’t affect him. In a chat with John Barrowman, he said: “It’s not a problem for me, I’ll go and do it. I’ve got no sense of smell, I can’t smell anything.
“Clearing the dunny out is the easiest job in the world for me.” John attended the dunny duties with Harry and later told the Bush Telegraph: “Harry doesn’t have any sense of smell, so Harry is the perfect one to do the dunny – just don’t look in!”
Harry had previously recalled how he accidentally ran over his wife Sandra once.
“I used to think I was a good driver but I had a nightmare and ran over my wife one day. She got out the car and I thought she’d crossed the road, and I pulled forward and she fell into the road,” he recalled.
He said “the most amazing part of the story” was how a bus had stopped “literally yards away”, which his granddaughter was sitting on, and she had witnessed the whole thing. After that, Sandra underwent surgery on her ankle and survived.
“I thought I had lost her. I thought I had done her foot. I thought a car had hit her. I heard her scream. I didn’t realise it was me,” he later explained on Good Morning Britain.
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