Amazingly, it's been five years since Paddy McGuinness first came down the love lift.
And now - as he tells Digital Spy when we meet him on set of the seventh series of ITV's Take Me Out - there have been engagements, marriages and even children born from lads and lasses who have put the power of love in Paddy's hands.
"It's the most successful British dating show ever," claims McGuinness. "Beats everything. It might be one of the most successful in the world."
The 41-year-old talks Take Me Out tweaks, catchphrases and making mashed potato...
What keeps bringing you back to Take Me Out?
"I love the randomness of it. Yesterday I was dancing on stage with two Oompa Loompas. It's just mad. Other series I've been on stage making sausages or shearing sheep, and it's that madness and total randomness of it all that I like. It's a dating show,...
And now - as he tells Digital Spy when we meet him on set of the seventh series of ITV's Take Me Out - there have been engagements, marriages and even children born from lads and lasses who have put the power of love in Paddy's hands.
"It's the most successful British dating show ever," claims McGuinness. "Beats everything. It might be one of the most successful in the world."
The 41-year-old talks Take Me Out tweaks, catchphrases and making mashed potato...
What keeps bringing you back to Take Me Out?
"I love the randomness of it. Yesterday I was dancing on stage with two Oompa Loompas. It's just mad. Other series I've been on stage making sausages or shearing sheep, and it's that madness and total randomness of it all that I like. It's a dating show,...
- 1/2/2015
- Digital Spy
Cilla Black recently spoke about the possibility of resurrecting Blind Date during an appearance on This Morning.
The 70-year-old TV presenter added that perhaps Holly Willoughby could host it, to which Willoughby replied: "Well... it is an amazing show... I used to love it very much!"
We all did, and it also evoked our memory of a young Amanda Holden as a contestant on the ITV dating show before she was was famous.
So we've gone back in time to dig out footage of fresh-faced stars before they were famous making their debut on TV - from a precocious Simon Amstell to an equally precocious Simon Cowell - below.
Simon Amstell shows off a kind of magic...
A thought provoking joke, a successful card trick, a colourful bow tie - and all at the tender age of 15. It's Simon Amstell!
The TV presenter and comedian appeared on Family Catchphrase with...
The 70-year-old TV presenter added that perhaps Holly Willoughby could host it, to which Willoughby replied: "Well... it is an amazing show... I used to love it very much!"
We all did, and it also evoked our memory of a young Amanda Holden as a contestant on the ITV dating show before she was was famous.
So we've gone back in time to dig out footage of fresh-faced stars before they were famous making their debut on TV - from a precocious Simon Amstell to an equally precocious Simon Cowell - below.
Simon Amstell shows off a kind of magic...
A thought provoking joke, a successful card trick, a colourful bow tie - and all at the tender age of 15. It's Simon Amstell!
The TV presenter and comedian appeared on Family Catchphrase with...
- 10/17/2013
- Digital Spy
The presenter of Film 2010 served a long apprenticeship before landing this prime-time slot. No wonder she has a style very much her own
The kohl-rimmed eyes and the weighty fringe were probably the first things viewers noticed. Those key Winkleman trademarks were there from the very start, back in the late 1990s. Who is this unusual woman presenter, people asked, and why does she look at the camera sideways, as if tentatively sharing a joke?
Claudia Winkleman's new role as the host of Film 2010, coupled with a stint tonight on Strictly Come Dancing's main show while Bruce Forsythe recovers from flu – as well as her usual presenting job on the Strictly spin-off, It Takes Two – all mark a move up to the front ranks of the broadcasters' roll call of talent.
But how the presenter herself views her prestigious elevation is another matter. With a self-deprecatory...
The kohl-rimmed eyes and the weighty fringe were probably the first things viewers noticed. Those key Winkleman trademarks were there from the very start, back in the late 1990s. Who is this unusual woman presenter, people asked, and why does she look at the camera sideways, as if tentatively sharing a joke?
Claudia Winkleman's new role as the host of Film 2010, coupled with a stint tonight on Strictly Come Dancing's main show while Bruce Forsythe recovers from flu – as well as her usual presenting job on the Strictly spin-off, It Takes Two – all mark a move up to the front ranks of the broadcasters' roll call of talent.
But how the presenter herself views her prestigious elevation is another matter. With a self-deprecatory...
- 11/14/2010
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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