REALITY star Dani Dyer was such a terrible learner driver she crashed three times before finally passing her test, she has revealed.
The former Love Island winner, 28, smashed into her mother’s car, a house gate and a bin lorry while practising.
Dani Dyer, pictured with dad Danny, has revealed she was such a terrible learner driver she crashed three times before finally passing her test[/caption]
She smashed into her mother’s car, a house gate and a bin lorry while practising[/caption]
Dani with fiance, England and West Ham ace, Jarrod Bowen[/caption]
She failed one test when, as soon as she set off, the examiner slammed on the brakes to stop her hitting someone on a zebra crossing.
After revealing her appalling record to former EastEnders actor dad Danny on their podcast, he said: “I didn’t realise what a danger to society you were then — and how many wing mirrors you lost.”
Dani hardly seemed set for all her woes behind the wheel, as she studied hard and breezed through her theory test first time.
But she told her dad on their Live and Let Dyers podcast: “I smashed into mother’s car. I tried to overtake a dust cart — I overtook it and smashed my wing mirror up.
“I smashed into your gate. God, I smashed that car up to bits.”
And Dani, who revealed her first car was a Mini bought by her dad, 47, said her first two practical tests could not have gone worse.
She said: “The lady, when she walked out I was s****ing myself. Second time, the same lady came out, so automatically I knew I was going to fail.
“She didn’t understand why my name was Dani — she kept saying. That’s a boy’s name.
“As soon as I pulled out she hit the brake because there was a person at a zebra crossing, so I said to her, ‘You broke, so I know I’ve failed’.
“I said, ‘Can we just stop here because I know I’ve failed?’. She said, ‘No, just continue’.”
Things went better on her third test — and the examiner was rewarded with a signed copy of her dad’s autobiography.
Mum-of-three Dani, engaged to England and West Ham ace Jarrod Bowen, said: “The third time lucky was that guy — I sent him a signed book.”
If her dad knew about all her escapades, he might have been wary about acting alongside Dani in 2021, when she made a cameo appearance in EastEnders — playing a black-cab driver.
In the episode, Danny’s character Mick Carter, is late for a baby scan appointment with wife Linda, but manages to flag down Dani’s character, Jeanette, in her taxi.
She is heavily pregnant but her waters break on the way to hospital — meaning Mick has to take the wheel to get her there as quickly as possible.
In 2023, the pair also appeared together in road trip documentary, Absolutely Dyer: Danny and Dani Do Italy.
