Monday 10 November 2008

Paddy’s last tour ‘The Dark Side’ was the fastest selling of 2006, taking in 115 sold out dates and selling more than 160,000 tickets! His following live debut DVD entered the comedy charts at No 1 and has currently sold in excess of 250,000 copies.

Patrick McGuinness's first outing on the road to tellydom was in a series of 6 one off episodes in C4's ‘The Comedy Lab’.  He appeared as Terry, a work-shy employee in Peter Kay's ‘The Services’. Soon after this he got the part that he made his own as Paddy the doorman in ‘That Peter Kay Thing’.  He appeared in the episode entitled "The Club" which led to the massive spin off series ‘ Phoenix Nights’. Not taking acting, writing or comedy too seriously Paddy returned to his job as a fitness instructor after the first series of ‘ Phoenix Nights’.  It was only when his life-long friend Peter Kay persuaded him to leave his full time job and give showbiz a go, that Paddy left the fitness industry behind and started work on ‘Phoenix Nights’ series 2.

Patrick then went on to co-write with Peter Kay, the eagerly anticipated spin off to Phoenix Nights:‘Max and Paddy’s The Road To Nowhere’.  This follows the adventures of the two Phoenix doormen (Max and Paddy) and what they get up to on their travels around the country. ‘Max and Paddy’s Power of Two’, which featured the 2 characters performing in their very own work out video was subsequently released on DVD and became the fastest selling fitness video ever!

Paddy’s cap has numerous feathers and in 2006 he proved this by hosting and writing ‘Inside Wayne Rooney’ for Sky One. He also presented the weekly Friday night show ‘Unanimous: The Fallout’ with Olivia Lee for C4, guest presented the Paul O’Grady Show and also found time to write a comedy short for E4, ‘The Unknown Stuntman’.

In 2007, Paddy presented ‘Raiders of the Lost Archive’ on ITV1; a show in which he and his guests (including Bruce Forsyth, Chris Tarrant, Michael Parkinson and Ronnie Corbett) discovered TV shows they had appeared in years ago, which they had previously thought were lost. As well as appearing on numerous comedy shows including ‘Eight Out of Ten Cats’, ‘Law ofthe playground’etc, Paddy’s new football DVD, ‘Paddy McGuinness: All-Star Balls Ups!’ entered the sporting DVD chart at No 1.

In 2008 Paddy will be appearing in the new Leigh Francis comedy for ITV ‘Keith Lemons Gap Year’ and he is also the face of Greggs new television campaign.

8pm £18.50

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PADDY McGUINNESS PLUS YOU! LIVE.
COMPETITION

Paddy will be taking his brand new 2008 show Paddy McGuinness Plus You Live on a nation wide tour this autumn see dates below. If you’ve got a good act, ambition and a yearning to make it big then look no further. We are inviting all acts whether it be singers, comedians, jugglers, magicians, dancers etc to contact us. The best acts will get the opportunity to support Paddy at selected venues around the UK and British Isles. The support act judged to be the best will pick up a cheque for two thousand pounds and also get the opportunity to appear in the live recording of his new DVD to be released Christmas 2008.

Send us recordings of your act on DVD plus a brief synopsis, along with your contact details to

No Third Entertainments PO Box 1121 Preston PR4 5UY

We will not be staging live auditions all acts will be judged on what you send us.

Further info is available at Paddy’s web site www.patrickmcguinness.co.uk

The deadline for entry is May 17 th 2008

The winners will be announced on Paddy’s web site week of May 26 th 2008.

£25s

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