This weekend, Paddy McGuinness is back on the small screen for more Christmassy fun, as he and Cherry Healey appear in a festive episode of Inside The Christmas Factory.
In the programme, viewers will get the chance to see the pair explore the world of festive confections.
Paddy, who recently quit as host of Tempting Fortune, is known for his upbeat personality, wicked humour and bags of charm. However, things haven’t been easy for the TV personality. In fact, he previously opened up about his battle with depression…
Paddy has been open about his depression battle (Credit: Splash News)
Paddy McGuinness on depression
In a September interview on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, Paddy admitted that he didn’t even realise he had depression.
“Sometimes I’d be in the dressing room with something on the phone at home and stressing about it,” he recounted. “Then you’d go out there and you’d do the show and you’d come off, and I’d be knackered because I’d mentally burnt out.”
He added that his mind “magnified” his problems and that it could make “everything worse”.
“Every problem is magnified a million times, and I was always going to the worst case scenario of everything,” he said.
For Paddy, it was the “little things” that “helped depression come to a front”.
He said: “They’re all little chinks in the armour that were slowly being eroded that I didn’t realise.
“But again, on the positive, the job is brilliant for then talking about things because you’re going to reach more people and you’re going to make more people aware, so I take the positives out of things like that.”
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