Keith Lemon has acknowledged that he had no idea what he was getting himself into when filming a new season of World’s Most Dangerous Roads with Will Mellor – despite the fact that the title pretty well says it all.
The comedian, actual name Leigh Francis, and the Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps star faced difficult terrain in Albania while on a road journey through one of the world’s most beautiful and dangerous regions.
Keith had assumed they were headed to Iceland, but after confessing he had no clue why he was there, he was blown away by the images the couple were surrounded by.
Keith confessed to Metro.co.uk that he expected Albania to be a bit ‘naughty’ with ‘gangs,’ but was ‘beside himself’ at what he witnessed.
‘It was an incredible place,’ he began.
But the couple couldn’t agree on who would drive, with Will a self-confessed petrolhead and Keith terrified of parking.
‘I said to him, you’re going to do most of the driving, and he said, you’ll do a bit of it, and I said, no!’ Keith told us.
‘And then we got to a river, and as a joke, I said, “I’ll take it from here!”‘ added the Celebrity Juice star. Being all masculine, he said, alright, and I thought, oh s**t.
‘So I went to the river, and on the show it doesn’t look that bad, but in the car… I swear the car was floating.
‘And yeah, I ruined my pants!’
‘Not literally,’ he added, going on to explain the next dangerous stunt the pair underwent.
‘So then, I had to drive around a mountain, and I couldn’t believe that this show was about to happen.
‘On part of this mountain, there’s gravestones where people have gone over the edge! And I’m a rubbish driver and it’s raining.
‘So if you flip out, you’re gone. So I don’t know how this show’s allowed!’
‘We did have a laugh though,’ Keith continued, before revealing that he’s ‘never sworn so much in my life’.
‘I C-bombed a mountain! I called a mountain a C-bomb!’
Aside from the mountain, which Keith described as the “most frightening” portion of the trip, he also mentioned that “road etiquette” in Albania took some getting used to.
‘In the city, it was crazy! I was just panicking and panicking, because no one cares!
‘There’s a bit where we went to a beach, and that was down the side of a cliff, as well, and you’re just concentrating on breathing, and I don’t know if I was breathing wrong and taking too much in, but I started tearing up.’
Keith ‘couldn’t stop laughing’ after welling up, adding he felt like he’d gone insane.
‘And then we got to the beach, I just took all my clothes off and went into the sea, and said, “That’s it, I’m done, shall we go home”.’
‘It was a good thing to do though,’ he said, adding that some holiday-goers would pay for experiences like that.
World’s Most Dangerous Roads starts Sunday, February 12 at 8pm on Dave. Watch the full series on UKTV Play.
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