Paddy McGuiness has made a surprise exit from Don’t Look Down for Stand Up To Cancer due to a family matter.
The former Take Me Out presenter co-parents his three children – Penelope, Leo and Felicity – with his ex-wife Christine McGuinness, after the couple parted ways after 11 years of marriage in 2022.
Advertisement
The 50-year-old was taking part in terrifying challenges, most of which were suspended hundreds of feet above the ground, in order to raise money for the charity with nine other celebrities.
Paddy explained his departure to his co-stars and said: “Unfortunately today I’ve got to go home and I might not be back for at least a week. Co-parenting… We’ve no one at all to help us with the kids.”
He said that their three children, who all have autism, “need me or Christine there or people who are in our support network”.
“I’ll have a hell of a lot of catching up to do when I get back,” he said.
“I’m gutted because the guys will be 10 metres up in the air and it will feel like starting again but there’s just nothing I can do about it.”
Advertisement
","type":"video","meta":{"author":"Channel 4 Entertainment","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz1hQ68G3XPVYEBoFDgSjcQ","cache_age":86400,"description":"Catch up on 4oD: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dont-look-down/4od\n\nUrban free climbers are a new breed of daredevils, young men and women who illegally climb cranes and buildings without any safety equipment, then hang from them, hundreds of metres above the ground, one slip from certain death…\n\nFree climbing originated in Eastern Europe, but has recently spread to Britain.\n\nJames Kingston is a 23 year old who lives with his mother near Southampton. In his spare time James scales the local 100m cranes and 200m radio towers.\n\nNow James embarks on a journey to the spiritual home of urban free climbing, Ukraine, where he teams up with the infamous Mustang Wanted, the craziest climber of them all.\n\nAs Mustang and James explore Kiev, the pair push themselves to new extremes, climbing derelict buildings and tightrope-walking hundreds of metres above the city, before finally heading to the iconic Moscow bridge to attempt Mustang’s latest death defying stunt.\n\nDon’t Look Down is fascinating, revealing and nerve-wracking.","options":{"_cc_load_policy":{"label":"Closed captions","value":false},"_end":{"label":"End on","placeholder":"ex.: 11, 1m10s","value":""},"_start":{"label":"Start from","placeholder":"ex.: 11, 1m10s","value":""},"click_to_play":{"label":"Hold load & play until clicked","value":false}},"provider_name":"YouTube","thumbnail_height":720,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AYmOsout8lc/maxresdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":1280,"title":"Don’t Look Down | Sunday, 9pm | Channel 4","type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYmOsout8lc","version":"1.0"},"flags":[],"enhancements":{},"fullBleed":false,"options":{"theme":"news","device":"desktop","editionInfo":{"id":"uk","name":"U.K.","link":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk","locale":"en_GB"},"originalEdition":"uk","slideshowAd":{"scriptTags":[],"otherHtml":""},"slideshowEndCard":{"scriptTags":[],"otherHtml":""},"isMapi":false,"isAmp":false,"isVideoEntry":false,"isEntry":true,"isMt":false,"entryId":"65390f50e4b0783c4b9f5292","entryPermalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/paddy-mcguinness-dont-look-down-channel-4_uk_65390f50e4b0783c4b9f5292","entryTagsList":"uktv,channel-4,paddy-mcguinness,christine-mcguinness,dont-look-down","sectionSlug":"entertainment","deptSlug":null,"sectionRedirectUrl":null,"subcategories":"","isWide":false,"headerOverride":null,"noVideoAds":false,"disableFloat":false,"isNative":false,"commercialVideo":{"provider":"custom","site_and_category":"uk.entertainment","package":null},"isHighline":false,"vidibleConfigValues":{"cid":"60afc140cf94592c45d7390c","disabledWithMapiEntries":false,"overrides":{"all":"60b8e525cdd90620331baaf4"},"whitelisted":["56c5f12ee4b03a39c93c9439","56c6056ee4b01f2b7e1b5f35","59bfee7f9e451049f87f550b","5acccbaac269d609ef44c529","570278d2e4b070ff77b98217","57027b4be4b070ff77b98d5c","56fe95c4e4b0041c4242016b","570279cfe4b06d08e3629954","5ba9e8821c2e65639162ccf1","5bcd9904821576674bc55ced","5d076ca127f25f504327c72e","5b35266b158f855373e28256","5ebac2e8abddfb04f877dff2","60b8e525cdd90620331baaf4","60b64354b171b7444beaff4d","60d0d8e09340d7032ad0fb1a","60d0d90f9340d7032ad0fbeb","60d0d9949340d7032ad0fed3","60d0d9f99340d7032ad10113","60d0daa69340d7032ad104cf","60d0de02b627221e9d819408"],"playlists":{"default":"57bc306888d2ff1a7f6b5579","news":"56c6dbcee4b04edee8beb49c","politics":"56c6dbcee4b04edee8beb49c","entertainment":"56c6e7f2e4b0983aa64c60fc","tech":"56c6f70ae4b043c5bdcaebf9","parents":"56cc65c2e4b0239099455b42","lifestyle":"56cc66a9e4b01f81ef94e98c"},"playerUpdates":{"56c6056ee4b01f2b7e1b5f35":"60b8e525cdd90620331baaf4","56c5f12ee4b03a39c93c9439":"60d0d8e09340d7032ad0fb1a","59bfee7f9e451049f87f550b":"60d0d90f9340d7032ad0fbeb","5acccbaac269d609ef44c529":"60d0d9949340d7032ad0fed3","5bcd9904821576674bc55ced":"60d0d9f99340d7032ad10113","5d076ca127f25f504327c72e":"60d0daa69340d7032ad104cf","5ebac2e8abddfb04f877dff2":"60d0de02b627221e9d819408"}},"connatixConfigValues":{"defaultPlayer":"8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb","clickToPlayPlayer":"5a777b9b-81fe-41a6-8302-59e9953ee8a2","videoPagePlayer":"19654b65-409c-4b38-90db-80cbdea02cf4"},"customAmpComponents":[],"ampAssetsUrl":"https://amp.assets.huffpost.com","videoTraits":null,"positionInUnitCounts":{"buzz_head":{"count":0},"buzz_body":{"count":0},"buzz_bottom":{"count":0}},"positionInSubUnitCounts":{"article_body":{"count":6},"blog_summary":{"count":0},"before_you_go_slideshow":{"count":0}},"connatixCountsHelper":{"count":0},"buzzfeedTracking":{"context_page_id":"65390f50e4b0783c4b9f5292","context_page_type":"buzz","destination":"huffpost","mode":"desktop","page_edition":"en-uk"},"tags":[{"name":"uktv","slug":"uktv","links":{"relativeLink":"news/uktv","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/uktv","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/uktv"},"relegenceId":4255579,"section":{"title":"Entertainment","slug":"entertainment"},"topic":{"title":"UK TV","slug":"uktv","overridesSectionLabel":false},"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/uktv/"},{"name":"channel 4","slug":"channel-4","links":{"relativeLink":"news/channel-4","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/channel-4","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/channel-4"},"relegenceId":3449948,"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/channel-4/"},{"name":"Paddy McGuinness","slug":"paddy-mcguinness","links":{"relativeLink":"news/paddy-mcguinness","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/paddy-mcguinness","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/paddy-mcguinness"},"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/paddy-mcguinness/"},{"name":"Christine mcguinness","slug":"christine-mcguinness","links":{"relativeLink":"news/christine-mcguinness","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/christine-mcguinness","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/christine-mcguinness"},"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/christine-mcguinness/"},{"name":"don’t look down","slug":"dont-look-down","links":{"relativeLink":"news/dont-look-down","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/dont-look-down","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/dont-look-down"},"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/dont-look-down/"}],"isLiveblogLive":null,"cetUnit":"buzz_body","bodyAds":["
\r\n\r\n HPGam.cmd.push(function(){\r\n\t\treturn HPGam.render(\"inline-1\", \"entry_paragraph_1\", false);\r\n });\r\n\r\n","
\r\n\r\n HPGam.cmd.push(function(){\r\n\t\treturn HPGam.render(\"inline\", \"entry_paragraph_2\", false);\r\n });\r\n\r\n","
\r\n\r\n HPGam.cmd.push(function(){\r\n\t\treturn HPGam.render(\"inline-2\", \"entry_paragraph_3\", false);\r\n });\r\n\r\n","
\r\n\r\n HPGam.cmd.push(function(){\r\n\t\treturn HPGam.render(\"inline-infinite\", \"repeating_dynamic_display\", false);\r\n });\r\n\r\n"],"adCount":0},"isCollectionEmbed":false}”>
