‘Why didn’t you inform me?’ Paddy McGuinness is red-faced after being caught chatting on camera ahead of the This Morning interview
Paddy McGuinness suffered a hilarious blunder during Friday’s This Morning show when he was caught chatting on camera, unaware he was being filmed.
The 49-year-old host was there to chat about his new game show, Tempting Fortune, but was caught off guard when he spoke to hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary before realizing he was already being filmed.
He said: “Are we live? I could have been effing and blind! Then why didn’t you let me know?
“I was just talking about Marti Pellow! That was almost #cancelled!’
Earlier in the interview, Paddy congratulated This Morning host Alison on her new job as host of The Great British Bake Off.
Oops! Paddy McGuinness suffered a hilarious blunder during Friday’s This Morning show when he was caught chatting on camera, unaware he was being filmed
He jokingly said: “First the BBC, then ITV and now you’ve followed me to Channel 4. I want to publish it in Ethos – stop following me!
“Get your own gig, Hammond! I’m sick of giving you a leg up in the industry!’
The father-of-three detailed his own experience of attending a celebrity version of the baking show, saying: “When I was with the other contestants and they were like, ‘Oh, I tried it last night,’ I had I didn’t make it – I just showed up that day!’
Alison and Dermot then played a clip of Paddy’s biggest baking disaster, and he went on to blame Judge Paul Hollywood for it.
He said: “I blame Hollywood! Not the place the man I call him the man is a scammer!
“He told me what to do and I followed him to the tee and that’s what happened. I want to see this man’s baking credentials.’
It comes after Paddy detailed his battle with clinical depression and revealed it was his estranged wife Christine who discovered the symptoms.
The TV presenter admitted he was “unaware” of how low he’d gotten and said he quickly lost his temper looking back on his struggles.
Ouch! The presenter was caught off guard speaking to hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary before realizing he was already being filmed
Fun! He said: “Are we live? I could have been effing and blind! Then why didn’t you inform me?’
Blunder: He added, “I was just talking about Marti Pellow! That was almost #cancelled!’
Paddy said he began to resent his job as he had to make crowds laugh before he had to go home unhappy himself.
Speaking on the Monday Mile podcast, Paddy said he was diagnosed with clinical depression after his then-wife Christine, 35, discovered the symptoms.
He said: “In my experience with something like depression, I was diagnosed as clinically depressed and was unaware of it.
“You can be as low as you can get and it’s the people around you that tell you.
“So Christine and some of my family members were saying things and asking if I was okay, and I was like, ‘Why do they keep asking me that?’
“But obviously you can’t see it yourself, it’s in your head, it’s not like you have a limp where people can spot it and you can spot it.”
Clinical depression is low mood that lasts for days or months and interferes with your daily life, with symptoms such as hopelessness and low self-esteem.
Paddy explained that he became increasingly frustrated and easily annoyed as he admitted he was starting to resent his job.
He continued, “I started getting annoyed with standing in front of a crowd and making them laugh because I used to be like, ‘You guys are fine, but I’m going home with this feeling.’
“I’ve never been one to lose my temper, but I could feel myself getting agitated more quickly in certain situations and I just thought, ‘It’s not me.’
“I wasn’t running around throwing mugs at the b****y wall and screaming, but I could tell right away how angry I was and I wasn’t supposed to feel that.”