Ant mcpartlin drunk driving

TV presenter Ant McPartlin has been fined £86,000 and banned from driving for 20 months after pleading guilty to drink-driving.

The star, who earns £130,000 a week, said he was "truly sorry" for driving while more than twice the legal limit and causing a crash which left a family thinking they were going to die.

The 42-year-old was driving with his mother through Richmond, west London, when he crashed his Mini into two other cars on 18 March.

Prosecutor Katie Sinnett-Jones told Wimbledon Magistrates' Court that the incident happened when McPartlin drove around a "sharp bend and lost control", then ended up on the wrong side of the road.

He collided with another Mini Cooper before driving "straight into the front of an oncoming car".

The court heard that the host had been seeking help for "alcohol and emotional issues" at the time following the breakdown of h