Nick Knowles discusses online comments about his weight Nick Knowles got candid about his troublesome teenage years as the TV personality took to Instagram with a hair-raising tale on Sunday morning. The 61-year-old shared a snap of a Fiat 127 hatchback in coral red which seemed to inspire the random memory. Recalling his “massive motorbike accident” Nick set the scene as 1980, Kent and Sussex when he “ took a kneecap off ” in the collision.
Despite the devastating injury, the teenager sent paramedics away and turned down the ambulance ride to the hospital as he believed he could walk. Unfortunately, the DIY SOS star quickly found his mobility was “only temporarily as it turned out when the adrenaline subsided”. Nick Knowles recalled a devastating accident in his teenage years (Image: GETTY) READ MORE: Nick Knowles branded 'lucky man' as fiancee wows in bikini on romantic getaway Nick found refuge in a house near the crash site which is where he stayed until his dad came to collect him in the very same car that was splashed across the background of his Instagram story.
Rather than the comforting greeting he expected, Nick got some tough love from his father. He continued: “He decided it wasn’t fair to call the ambulance back as I had to live with my earlier decision. “So they placed me on a spare front door from the garden and slid me into my dad’s open hatchback so he could drive me to the hospital where he parked outside A&E and casually strolled in to a.
