Paddy McGuinness
Paddy McGuinness

Paddy McGuinness

  • 50 years old
  • English
  • Actor, stand-up comedian and presenter

Press clippings

Red Nose Day 2024 to include Alan Partridge and The Traitors

Details of this year's Comic Relief telethon have been revealed, including a headline sketch spoofing The Traitors and the return of Alan Partridge to BBC One.

British Comedy Guide, 28th February 2024

Phoenix Nights props go under the hammer

Phoenix Nights fans are being given the chance to own their own piece of the iconic sitcom, when props from the Peter Kay comedy and its spin-off Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere are to be auctioned on 31st January.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd January 2024

Christine McGuinness 'devastated' to learn ex husband Paddy is making mockumentary about their divorce

Model Christine McGuinness is "devastated" after learning estranged husband Paddy is making a BBC "mockumentary" about their divorce.

The former Top Gear host, 50, secretly shot a pilot for the spoof documentary called Paddy last year - ­following his life as a comedian going through a split.

Hannah Hope, The Sun, 13th January 2024

Paddy McGuinness pilots Paddy mockumentary for the BBC

Paddy McGuinness is piloting a mockumentary for the BBC about his life and divorce with the team behind Meet The Richardsons, co-starring stand-up Josh Pugh.

British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2024

Jason Manford was sacked by Paddy McGuinness as his warm-up for being 'too funny'

Jason Manford has revealed Paddy McGuinness sacked him as the support act for his stand-up tour because he was 'too funny'.

Stuart Pink, Daily Mail, 30th December 2023

Paddy McGuinness to tour for the first time since 2016

Paddy McGuinness: Nearly There will run from October 2024 to March 2025.

British Comedy Guide, 4th December 2023

Paddy McGuiness suddenly exits Channel 4's Don't Look Down for family reasons

Presenter and his wife Christine separated last year.

Louis Chilton, The Independent, 25th October 2023

Paddy McGuinness shares hilarious response amid teenage sex pics defamation claims

Comedian and host of BBC's Top Gear, McGuiness has himself issued a hilarious response to some of the claims that he is the presenter being investigated in a video yesterday.

Ivan Prothero, Deadline News, 11th July 2023

Paddy McGuinness teases that Max & Paddy could return one day

Speaking in a radio interview, Paddy McGuinness has teased the idea that he and Peter Kay might reunite one day to make more episodes of Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere.

British Comedy Guide, 28th March 2023

Baldrick to read Blackadder Bedtime Story for Comic Relief

The BBC has revealed its plans for Red Nose Day, with Tony Robinson reprising his Blackadder character Baldrick for a Bedtime Story. Other Comic Relief sketches include one themed around Love Island and another around Eurovision.

British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2023