The cricketing legend has been known as Freddie since his schoolboy years. He acquired the moniker as a result of his surname resembled that of the cartoon character Fred Flintstone.
“It is unusual, is not it? As a result of clearly, my identify is Andrew, after which – since I used to be about 15 – I’ve simply been known as Fred or Freddie,” he defined in a self-titled documentary on Disney+.
“As a result of Andrew might be extra a mirrored image of me. Fairly introverted. Similar to his personal area. However that will by no means have survived the world {of professional} sport. I knew that fairly rapidly.”
Discussing his position presenting the traditional ITV quiz programme, Flintoff expressed his affection for the present and its unique presenter. He additionally disclosed he has thrown some darts beforehand, although admits feeling apprehensive about competing earlier than a stay studio viewers.
“Lots of the cricketers play. We used to play on tour so much in our resort rooms,” Flintoff confessed. “We would go to those far-flung locations and by no means see something of the nation.
“We would be watching tv in our rooms and taking part in darts. It was the little issues as a child watching it I keep in mind, from Bully moo’ing to Jim Bowen counting the cash out earlier than the advert break.
“You’ll see Eric Bristow taking over the darts problem to try to win the Bronze Bully and you then’d all sit there questioning what the prize goes to be. Whether or not it will be a caravan or a speedboat or a automotive or some vacation in some far place that you just’d by no means heard of at the moment. So it was fun.
“We cease once I mess up on the auto-cue and this and that. However again then, it was prefer it was all performed in a single scene, Jim Bowen strolling from one place to the subsequent and he is making errors and he is simply going with it. There’s one thing very nice about that. He is simply bouncing from one place to the subsequent, making errors and simply rolling with it, which is kind of endearing.”
