Paddy McGuinness hopes he will live to see a cancer cure.

Paddy McGuinness hopes he will live to see a cancer cure

Paddy McGuinness hopes he will live to see a cancer cure

The presenter, 50, was left devastated when his dad was killed by the disease, and is now taking part in his new Stand Up To Cancer special ‘Don’t Look Down’.

Paddy, whose brother suffered leukemia, told The Sun: “My dad passed away from colon cancer and my brother had leukaemia.

“My thing with ‘Stand Up To Cancer’, especially with the raising money, is I hope – touch wood – that within all our lifetimes, they’ll have cracked the cure.

“I’m all about the research and the more money that can be pumped into that, the better.”

Paddy and a string of celebrities will be facing up to their fear of heights in the Channel 4 ‘SUTC’ special with a never-before-attempted feat of a highwire walk across a London landmark that is still to be revealed.

Paddy added he was proud he was getting involved in the stunt as he doesn’t see the likes of Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly doing bushtucker trials on ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’

He said: “I’ve done stuff for ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ in the past, so when Channel 4 suggested getting involved, I thought, ‘That’s quite interesting – I’ve never seen that done before.’

“I’ve never seen Ant and Dec in the jungle eating a kangaroo’s penis – they’re always like, ‘Go on, get it down you!’”

Paddy’s ‘SUTC’ show – which will air on 10 October at 9.15pm on Channel 4 – also features actress Beverley Callard, 66, former footballers David Ginola, 56, and Anton Ferdinand, 38, as well as travel presenter Charley Boorman, 57, athlete Victoria Pendleton, 43, and TikTokkers GK Barry, 24, and Fats Timbo, 26, travel to the Austrian Alps to train for their highwire act.

It comes after the BBC axed two of his shows, ‘Catchpoint’ and ‘I Can See Your Voice’.

Paddy admitted about how his background has given him a fear of work drying up: “I do think being working class, it’s in you. You just have that thing of... that constant fear of, if it stops what do I do next?

“You constantly have that in your mind. I’ve always been quite driven in that sense.

“I’ve always been looking at the next thing, even when I’m on a show that’s really successful.

“I’m constantly looking at the next thing or trying to create something myself.”

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