Paddy McGuinness has give up as host of Tempting Fortune.
The 52-year-old presenter won’t be returning to entrance the third collection of the Channel 4 actuality present – the place folks try and win a money prize within the wilderness by avoiding temptations to spend cash from the prize pot – resulting from different commitments.
Paddy mentioned: “I’m comfortable to be passing the baton on and the brand new host is in for an actual deal with as a result of it is an awesome present. I can be unhappy to depart it, however with different commitments and having fun with extra household time, I’ve needed to make some troublesome selections.”
A Channel 4 spokeswoman added: “Paddy has been a superb host of Tempting Fortune, bringing his trademark humour to each collection.
“We’re grateful for every little thing he is delivered to the present, and we completely perceive that the filming dedication abroad is a giant one and he’s unable to hitch us for the subsequent collection.”
Channel 4 has greenlit the third collection of the programme – which is able to as soon as once more happen in Malaysia – and filming is about to start early subsequent yr.
It’s anticipated to be broadcast in both late 2026 or early 2027.
Paddy beforehand revealed that he secretly battled despair throughout his stint as host of the ITV relationship present Take Me Out as he was “mentally burnt out” by his household’s struggles with autism.
The star – whose three youngsters Leo, Penelope and Felicity and ex-wife Christine McGuinness all have the neurodevelopmental situation – instructed Fearne Cotton’s Joyful Place podcast: “Generally I’d be within the dressing room with one thing on the telephone at dwelling and stressing about it.
“Then you definitely’d go on the market and also you’d do the present and also you’d come off, and I’d be knackered as a result of I’d mentally burnt out.”
The previous High Gear host added his thoughts might make “every little thing worse” and “magnified” all of his issues.
He mentioned: “I believe your thoughts is a robust software. It makes every little thing worse. Each downside is magnified 1,000,000 occasions, and I used to be at all times going ‘worst case state of affairs’ of every little thing.”
After Take Me Out resulted in 2019, Paddy mentioned he hoped the present would return sooner or later – although admitted the programme’s format might now be problematic.
Talking on the Desk Manners podcast, he mentioned: “I believe the way in which issues are on the world now, we dwell in a really unusual time the place when you’re saying one thing jokey or one thing not severe or no matter, it will get taken out of context, put on-line, and there is a spin on every little thing.”