Racing driver Billy Monger teamed up with his sister to take on Celebrity Race Across The World – and he jokes their sibling bickering was one of the hardest parts to cope with
Three weeks before his 18th birthday, Billy Monger’s life hung in the balance. The talented racing driver had smashed into a rival’s car during a race, and doctors had to put him in a coma.
When he woke up three days later, Billy’s legs had been amputated and life would never be the same. “It wasn’t plain sailing, learning how to walk again, learning how to be independent,” he says in the new series of Celebrity Race Across The World. Billy, now 24 appears with younger sister Bonny as they battle three other celebrity couples to make their way between Marrakesh in Morocco and Tromsø, in the far north of Norway.
Remarkably, Billy didn’t just learn how to walk again â he even returned to racing, driving a specially adapted car that he could control by hand. But accelerating around a race track wasn’t quite enough of a challenge, so Billy and Bonny, 22, signed up for the ultimate endurance test.
They are joined by McFly drummer Harry Judd and his mum Emma, All Saints singer Mel Blatt and her mum Helene, and Good Morning Britain weatherman Alex Beresford and his dad Noel. From the very beginning of the six-part series, viewers will see Billy and Bonny’s warm sibling relationship blossom, despite a few minor bickers.