Paddy McGuinness has blasted Simon Cowell's parenting skills.
Paddy McGuinness
The 'Top Gear' presenter - who has twins Penelope and Leo, born in 2013, and daughter Felicity, born in 2016, with wife Christine, 32 - hit out at Simon for his comments about nappy changing after his son Eric, six, was born.
Paddy, 47, told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: "I remember seeing something when Simon Cowell had his son, talking about how he doesn't even think about doing nappies, he's never done a nappy ever, and I kind of think, you've got to earn your parenting stripes, you've got to do that.
“You've got to get poo under your fingernails, covered in p*** and everything else and spew and what have you. If you've not done that you've never fully embraced the whole thing.
"I feel as though as a person it makes you stronger as well, because of all that stuff you have been through."
Paddy previously spoke about how he and Christine felt very alone after their children were diagnosed with autism.
He said: "With autism you can feel as though you're on your own, the world is against you. You're like, 'God, everyone else has got it easy'.
"All I want is for them to be independent. I don't care what they end up doing for a living but I want them to be independent – and you can see now with the school and all the help they get that it's coming to fruition.
"I just crave normality but you've got to put the hours in, do the work and as they get older, they get used to things more."
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