The Ant Anstead interview PART 1 - the private life and project cars of a Wheeler Dealer. Welcome to an Idol Chat interview, where Jonny Smith takes his battered brown leather chairs to meet someone prominent in our automotive world.

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If you search for him on the internet, these days Ant Anstead's name is more synonymous with high profile divorce or dating a Hollywood actress than departing Wheeler Dealers. But having known Ant for a good few years Jonny wanted to ensure this Idol Chat interview covered the many bases of his life, his car career and how he rises above the pressures and stresses of being in the public eye. Did you know his partner Renee Zellweger knows how to weld (and enjoys it)? Or that he loves musical theatre? Or that he crashed a Merc C63 AMG whilst auditioning for Top Gear? Neither did we.

Jonny also records a weekly podcast with Grand Tour script editor and car book author Richard Porter. Listen every Monday, but be warned it is silly rubbish. https://shows.acast.com/smithandsniff

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CHAPTERS
0:00
0:10 Ford F150 Lightning
1:01 intro to Ant
1:38 Living in America
2:05 Feeling displaced
3:20 Defenders
4:21 Ant's weird driving posture
5:18 Land Rover project hunting
5:59 Building first car
7:21 First car bought
7:55 Police career
8:38 'Take or leave driving'
9:16 Welding = happy place
9:28 Becoming a TV star
15:12 For the Love of Cars
15:50 Football career
17:45 Jenson Button and Radford
19:52 Christina marriage/divorce
21:45 Coping with stress
22:50 'Resetting' mentally
24:10 Losing Wheeler Dealers
24:35 Hudson
24:58 Getting the Wheeler Dealer job






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