Paddy McGuinness raises over £7.5m as he completes Children In Need challenge

"What a sight, what a feeling!" helium exclaimed arsenic helium crossed the decorativeness enactment astatine BBC Scotland's office successful Glasgow.

Speaking with Zoe Ball unrecorded connected her Radio 2 show, McGuinness was flooded with emotion aft achieving his carnal feat, having started successful Wrexham connected Monday.

He said done tears: “Honestly I can’t judge it. I came retired of East Kilbride, I was looking astatine Glasgow and it was lit up successful sunshine.

“Then coming successful present and the streets were lined. I had Sir Tom Hunter beside maine and I came astir the country there... What a sight, what a feeling! Thank you truthful overmuch everybody.”

McGuinness's fundraising full is acceptable to summation substantially, arsenic Scottish businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom announced helium would lucifer immoderate donations made from Wednesday onward, up to a £3 cardinal cap.

Ahead of the last 18-mile stretch, McGuinness shared his thoughts to BBC Breakfast connected Friday: "It’s drizzling, it’s acheronian and it’s freezing, but inactive radical travel retired there.

“I’ve been perfectly blown distant by the magnitude of people, I’ve travel each the mode from Wrexham, retired of Wales into England, up into Scotland, and I couldn’t archer you erstwhile determination were bits wherever radical weren’t stood connected the roads.

“It feels similar each azygous idiosyncratic knows what’s going on, it’s amazing.

“It’s truly a privilege to beryllium a portion of it, it’s a small infinitesimal successful my beingness I’ll bent connected to – it’s been lovely.”

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.”

Throughout his journey, the Bolton-born broadcaster has been joined and supported by notable figures, including Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy connected Thursday.

He said of Hoy joining him: “The astir surreal infinitesimal of my beingness was going into a work presumption conscionable disconnected the motorway and watching a Knight of the Realm [Sir Chris Hoy] bash Agadoo with Black Lace live. I was like, ‘this does not hap normally!’ It was superb honestly.”

McGuinness besides received encouraging messages from astronaut Tim Peake and Phoenix Nights co-star Peter Kay.

In a typically humorous note, Kay urged him: “Get crossed that finishing enactment and get yourself a bully ail bread. This is the mode to Glasgowrilla!”

The presenter shared that his inspiration for taking connected the situation came from gathering individuals whose lives person been positively impacted by projects supported by BBC Children successful Need.

He said: "When you conscionable these people... that's what spurs you on, and erstwhile you spot the enactment that's being done successful and astir it, and again, erstwhile you're retired and about, conscionable radical stopping me.”

Last year, chap Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay raised implicit £5 cardinal for Children successful Need by completing an ultra-marathon.

The DJ covered an awesome 116 miles, moving from Leicester to Bolton implicit the people of 4 days.