McGuinness thanks supporters as he completes Children In Need cycle ride

TV presenter and vigor big Paddy McGuinness has said supporters helped him support the pedals turning connected his foundation rhythm thrust from Wales to Scotland for BBC Children In Need.

The Top Gear presenter began his travel connected Monday astatine Wrexham AFC’s Racecourse Ground, and described however Glasgow was “lit up successful sunshine” arsenic helium approached the decorativeness enactment successful the metropolis connected Friday.

The 51-year-old undertook the 300 miles of Radio 2’s Ultra Endurance Cycle Challenge connected his imagination puerility bike, the Raleigh Chopper, with his motorcycle painted successful the colours of the charity’s mascot, Pudsey.

Just earlier 9am helium was amazed with a sojourn from Sir Tom Hunter who has pledged to lucifer each donation up to £3 cardinal done the Hunter Foundation.

Crowds of radical lined the metropolis streets and cheered him connected arsenic helium cycled towards BBC Scotland’s Pacific Quay headquarters, arriving astatine 10.28am.

He was welcomed by Zoe Ball, who was presenting a unrecorded broadcast of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show successful the foyer.

As helium arrived helium said: “I can’t judge it. Coming retired of East Kilbride and I were looking astatine Glasgow, and it was lit up successful sunshine.

“And the streets were lined, I had Sir Tom astatine the broadside of maine arsenic well. I came astir the country there, what a sight, what a feeling, convey you truthful overmuch everybody. Wow.”

So acold much than £7.5 cardinal has been raised for Children In Need.

Members of the Lomond School Pipe Band piped him into the gathering and vocalist Chesney Hawkes performed his classical deed The One and Only.

McGuinness acceptable disconnected connected the past limb from Strathaven to Glasgow aboriginal connected Friday greeting and said helium would miss the travel erstwhile helium went backmost to his accustomed occupation presenting Radio 2’s Smile Every Sunday.

Speaking aft completing the travel helium said: “It’s a infinitesimal successful clip I volition instrumentality to my grave, and I volition ne'er hide it.”

He thanked everyone who supported him, saying: “The team, connected time 1 erstwhile I got with them, they started talking astir the distance, they said it’s a toughie, but I said we’re going to bash it together.

“It sounds corny and cheesy, but honestly, each azygous idiosyncratic is what kept them pedals turning.

“I was sat connected it, they were pushing maine up each azygous hill. It’s overwhelming.

“I cognize arsenic the days spell along, I’ll beryllium replaying worldly successful my mind, erstwhile I spoke to you earlier, you told maine wherever we were up to astatine the minute, it’s going to support going. I’m going to Salford…”

McGuinness revealed the information helium was riding a motorcycle designed for a kid had caused a fewer issues, and said his physio had been helping him astatine each stop.

He said: “Essentially, it’s a child’s bike, and you’re benignant of successful a stressed presumption each the clip erstwhile you’re riding it.

“So that’s wherefore my backmost keeps seizing up, but this past mates of days, my knees person gone now, they’re wholly shot.

“And Jeff … my physio, helium gets stuck into maine astatine each pit stop.

“We’ll propulsion in, and he’ll get the furniture out, and we’ll bash each that, and past I speech to everybody who turns up, and we bash selfies and everything else, and past we ace connected to the adjacent town.”

Those wishing to donate tin bash truthful connected the BBC website.