Paddy McGuinness bathed in washing-up liquid as a child because his family couldn't afford shampoo.
Paddy McGuinness
The 'Top Gear' host - whose family were too poor to buy soap - revealed his mum would make him wash with stolen pot-washing liquid when he as younger.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: "One of my first girlfriends...I went to her house and I was having a shower and she passed me this shower gel, that squirty foam stuff.
“I was like, `f****** hell!’ I swear to God, all my life growing up we had washing up liquid in the bath.
“I never knew what shower gel was. I never knew what shampoo was. That was luxury to me. It wasn’t Fairy either.
“My mum was a cleaner at the local bingo hall and it was stuff she brought home from the bingo hall. It was in a vat. I was half expecting her to put the pots in with me."
The 47-year-old star admitted he assumed his upbringing "was the norm".
He added: "I used to think that was the norm.
“My mum brought me up on her own and we just didn’t have the money for those kind of things."
Now, Paddy - who has seven-year-old twins Leo and Penelope and four-year-old daughter Felicity with his wife Christine - is living a very different life, with his own family moving into a stunning new home far removed from his upbringing.
He said: "When we were getting this house done, we used to drive up and let them look from outside.
"The first thing my daughter says is, 'Where's the swimming pool?' I was like, 'Is that a normal question to ask someone?
"This is so far removed from my childhood, and she said it's just normal, totally normal, 'Where's the housekeeper living, Daddy?' "
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