Who is Paddy McGuinness, the celebrity raising money for Children in Need?

McGuinness, 51, was calved successful Lancashire and is simply a puerility person of chap Bolton-born comedian Peter Kay.

He is the erstwhile big of Top Gear, which helium co-presented betwixt 2019 and 2022, and was the big of dating amusement Take Me Out from 2010 to 2019.

Top Gear is presently connected hiatus aft 1 of the presenters, England cricket prima Freddie Flintoff, was injured successful a clang astatine the show’s Surrey trial track, sustaining superior facial injuries and breached ribs. McGuinness has spoken connected the panic onslaught helium had aft his ain Top Gear clang successful 2020, erstwhile helium skidded into a partition astatine precocious velocity portion driving a £250,000 1990 Lamborghini Diablo.

McGuinness and his different Top Gear co-host Chris Harris have signed connected to contiguous Road Trippin, which volition spot the brace question done Europe to research the secrets of surviving a agelong beingness – and get to grips with their ain midlife crises.

McGuinness, made his tv debut successful the 1990s arsenic a contestant connected God’s Gift, a dating amusement hosted by Davina McCall and Claudia Winkleman. Kay invited him to look successful his 2000 Channel 4 mockumentary, That Peter Kay Thing

He has presented shows connected the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and Channel 5 implicit his career. In 2008 McGuinness teamed up with chap comedian Rory McGrath to make the tv bid Rory and Paddy’s Great British Adventure, wherever they road-tripped astir the state trying retired antithetic section sports.

In 2011, McGuinness joined Christine Martin, a exemplary and tv personality. The couple, who dated since Christine was 19-years-old, person 3 children together. In 2021 the household featured successful BBC documentary Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism, aft Christine and the children were each diagnosed with autism.

They announced they were separating successful 2021, and their divorcement was finalised this year. However they inactive unrecorded unneurotic with their children astatine a £2.5 cardinal location successful Cheshire.

“We person abstracted bedrooms due to the fact that we respect that we aren’t unneurotic anymore but, whether we enactment it done oregon we don’t, what we bash person is simply a really, truly beauteous household portion astatine home,” McGuinness said successful a TikTok video earlier this year.

McGuinness is believed to person filmed a aviator occurrence for a mockumentary wherever helium played himself, arsenic a comedian going done a divorce. Though reportedly the BBC has decided not to spell done with accumulation retired of respect for his ex-wife.