Paddy McGuinness reflects on replacing Gregg Wallace on ‘Inside The Factory’

Paddy McGuinness, actor, writer, comedian, and television and radio presenter, has finally addressed taking over Gregg Wallace’s spot on the BBC’s Inside The Factory.

As per the report of Daily Mail, the 51-year-old star was named as Wallace’s replacement on Inside The Factory.

The 60-year-old Wallace stepped away from the show amid a sexual misconduct investigation after nearly two decades.

While giving an interview to The Sun and articulating his thoughts, McGuinness jokingly chimed, “’Actually for me, there’s not much hair to cover. You know, 20 years ago when I had a lovely thick head of hair, then that would have been a thing!”

He then went on to open up about his uneasiness working with co-host Cherry Healey for the first time, saying, “That’s always the tricky bit; you hope you get on. But I’m telling you now, me and Cherry do so much laughing.”

Recalling his first meeting with Healey, the Top Gear star shared, “As soon as I met her, we had the biggest talk and we just got on like that. This is testament to her – when I did my Children in Need challenge, she turned up in Kendal to surprise me – she even brought me up a lasagne she’d made!”

“I drove in in this big heavy goods vehicle for the first shot. I thought ‘I got my heavy goods licence doing Top Gear, now I’m driving into the place I used to work at 30-odd years ago, hosting another show for the BBC,” McGuinness stated.

The Tempting Fortune actor mentioned, recalling, “When I was that 16-year-old kid who used to walk to work with butties my mum had made me, who’d have thought all these years later, I’d have had all these amazing things go on in my life.”

“It was one of those moments where I thought, ‘B****y h***, life, eh? It does have its twists and turns,’” McGuinness concluded.

For the unversed, Inside The Factory explores how popular products are made in factories across the United Kingdom.

In the forthcoming ninth season, McGuinness and Healey visit factories that make sliced bread, flapjacks, and sausage rolls.

It is pertinent to mention that for a Christmas special airing December 22, they tour a Belgian chocolate factory that produces four million chocolate shells daily.