Christine McGuinness shows support for Paddy despite his 'toxic' divorce quips

Christine McGuinness was pictured holding 2 bunches of colourful balloons to observe her ex-husband Paddy arsenic helium completed his Children successful Need Ultra Endurance Cycle Challenge

Christine McGuinness has showed her enactment for her ex-husband Paddy contempt feeling "devastated" implicit immoderate jokes helium made astir their divorcement during his stand-up drama tour.

The 36-year-old exemplary took to the streets with 2 bunches of colourful balloons aft her ex finished the Children successful Need Ultra Endurance Cycle Challenge, raising £7,556,853 for the charity. Paddy, 51, broke down successful tears aft pushing himself to the bounds and pedalling an unthinkable 300 miles from Wrexham AFC to Glasgow connected a Raleigh Chopper.

Christine, who shares 3 children with Paddy, stepped retired holding balloons with the penning "well done, daddy" connected them arsenic helium completed the challenge. She was pictured smiling arsenic she wore a low-cut achromatic playsuit paired with sheer tights and knee-high boots.

As Paddy arrived successful Glasgow and cycled towards BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay office this morning, crowds of radical lined the metropolis streets and cheered him. He began his travel connected Monday and arrived astatine 10.28am today. He was welcomed by Zoe Ball, who was presenting a unrecorded broadcast of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show successful the foyer.

The Top Gear presenter said that Glasgow was "lit up successful sunshine" arsenic helium approached the metropolis this morning. As helium finished the epic challenge, Paddy said: "Every greeting erstwhile I woke up everything was aching and it was ever acheronian and acold but I've been saying it for the past fewer days, erstwhile you get connected the bike, and you get connected the roadworthy and everyone comes retired it conscionable spurs you on.

"Even though we're filming worldly and putting things connected societal media; until you're really successful that moment, I volition ne'er beryllium capable to get it crossed afloat what it felt like. All the antithetic sounds, each the cities, each the communities. Everyone came retired and everyone were unneurotic for something.

"And each those faces, each the kids, each the nurseries, each the superior schools, each drafting pictures of Patch - nary of them had a hint who I were - but it was conscionable truthful beauteous to spot and the streets were lined with people. Honestly it's a infinitesimal successful clip I'll instrumentality with maine to my grave. I'll ne'er ever hide it. It's been amazing."

Paddy and Christine were joined for 11 years and divided successful 2022, but they inactive unrecorded unneurotic to co-parent their kids and guarantee a unchangeable situation for them. Last month, Paddy returned to unrecorded drama for the archetypal clip successful astir a decennary to execute his Nearly There show. But soon aft the amusement astatine King George's Hall successful Blackburn began, helium made a gag astir his divorcement from Christine, saying it was "all astir emotion and respect tonight" and that helium didn't attraction "what contention you are, what religion, what your sexuality is."

According to The Sun, Paddy said: "Tonight, folks, we're each present arsenic quality beings with 1 communal extremity - and that's to assistance maine wage for my divorce. I've had the pants down, me, the pants down." However, sources adjacent to Christine told the paper that she had been "horrified" that Paddy made jokes connected their narration connected signifier since she has "kept a respectful soundlessness during their divorcement proceedings." A root besides added that Christine had been "distraught" astatine the thought radical were laughing astatine their split.

Earlier this week, it emerged that Paddy's sitcom astir his beingness and divorcement was axed by the BBC implicit concerns it would beryllium "distasteful and insensitive" for his erstwhile wife. The show, named Paddy, had acceptable to beryllium commissioned by the BBC aft it saw a aviator successful which the comedian and writer played himself. The mockumentary spoof followed a comic going done a break-up, and besides featured comedian Josh Pugh, 35, who revealed they filmed astatine an Airbnb lasting successful for Paddy's house.

The show, named Paddy, had acceptable to beryllium commissioned by the BBC aft it saw a aviator successful which the comedian and writer, aged 51, played himself. The mockumentary spoof followed a comic going done a break-up, and besides featured comedian Josh Pugh, 35, who revealed they filmed astatine an Airbnb lasting successful for Paddy's house. But an insider said the BBC has present it is "reluctant" to get progressive with the separation.

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