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Paddy McGuinness: "I was scared to leave my old job"
Paddy McGuinness has revealed that childhood friend Peter Kay "nagged" him to quit his job for a full-time career in comedy.
Kate Goodacre, Digital Spy, 29th December 2011Paddy McGuinness interview
"I was walking down Oxford Street earlier in London, and I got the sense, if I were to fall down, everyone would just keep walking over me."
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 24th November 2011Paddy McGuinness on Northern humour
"I was walking down Oxford Street earlier in London, and I got the sense, if I were to fall down, everyone would just keep walking over me." So speaks a true northerner, Paddy McGuinness, who reflects on his native land of Bolton.
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 24th November 2011How Paddy McGuinness became ITV's hottest new star
Paddy McGuinness is having a good year. His stand-up arena tour begins on October 5. He'll record the third series of Take Me Out in November, plus there's a TV panel show planned for next year.
Richard Barber, Daily Mail, 23rd September 2011Mr Saturday night: Exciting times for Paddy McGuinness
It was the biggest and best day of his life - but Paddy McGuinness says life has ambled along as normal for him and wife Christine Martin since they tied the knot in June. Happily settled at home in Bolton, he jokes: "It's good yeah - there's no change.
Sarah Dunn, Manchester Evening News, 23rd September 2011Paddy McGuinness cannot understand wife's scouse accent
Stunning Christine Martin has left hubby Paddy McGuinness begging for Mersey - because he can't understand a word of her Scouse accent.
The Sun, 23rd July 2011A welcome new addition to the Friday night schedules - some real comedy in among the chat shows masquerading as such. Pitched at the post-pub crowd it's an archive show in which some of today's comics celebrate the great TV moments that inspired them to pursue a career in stand-up, or simply left them doubled over helpless with laughter and admiration.
Jack Dee is up first, recalling the impact that Billy Connolly's debut appearance on Parkinson - when the Big Yin told the infamous bum joke that turned him into a comedy superstar overnight - had on his teenage self back in 1975. Among those piling in to concur, and recall what an enormous influence Connolly was, are Jon Culshaw, Dara O'Briain, Alan Carr and Jo Brand. Then, before it all gets too indulgent, Brand recalls her own favourite - a groundbreaking 1988 sketch from French and Saunders in which the duo play dirty old men watching a beauty pageant. Again, there's praise from the likes of Alan Carr, Joan Rivers, Andi Osho and - a touch bizarrely - Paddy McGuinness, before moving on to the next (Rhod Gilbert on Eddie Izzard's surreal "learning French" routine), and finishing with hymns to Max Miller and Les Dawson. In truth, the old doesn't always mix with the new, and the insights aren't always scintillating, but it's a chance to enjoy again some hilarious moments, and to discover some past flights of genius that may have passed you by.
Gerald O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 21st July 2011Paddy McGuinness interview
He earns hundreds of thousands of pounds as the host of Take Me Out ... but when the series ended, Paddy McGuinness's dad offered him money because he was worried he had fallen on hard times.
Rick Fulton, Daily Record, 12th May 2011The model who Paddy McGuinness takes out
Curvy Christine Martin shows the electric sights that light up the life of Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness.
Andy Crick, The Sun, 5th February 2011Paddy McGuinness quits Twitter due to cowardly bullies
Comedian Paddy McGuinness has quit Twitter - because he was fed up of people criticising his friends and family.
Manchester Evening News, 20th November 2010