Paddy McGuinness has claimed that the Phoenix Nights live shows in Manchester have raised "around £5 million".
Paddy McGuinness
The presenter and actor recently reprised his role as Patrick O'Shea alongside Peter Kay in a number of Manchester Arena shows, and revealed the huge sum raised for Comic Relief.
Speaking on this week's Jonathan Ross Show he said: "I've not got an exact figure [of money raised] but it'll be around the £5 million mark."
He also confessed it was "amazing" to reunite with the rest of the cast from the series, which originally ran between 2001 and 2002.
"We all got in a room the day we rehearsed - and it was one day's rehearsal. We picked up where we left off, and it was amazing!"
Paddy went on to describe the "horrendous" moment Ted Robbins collapsed during the opening night of the tour.
"The first night of the tour, Ted Robbins - who plays Den Perry - collapsed on stage and I was with [Peter] at the time when it happened and we were watching Ted on the screen [backstage] and he'd just gone on stage and I noticed his hands shaking.
"He just collapsed... When you see it, it's horrendous. He collapsed and he actually died, his heart stopped on stage."
He added: "Now, talk about luck - Richard Curtis was in the audience that night and there was a guy at the side of Richard Curtis, no connection, just happened to be a heart specialist.
"If he hadn't [gone on stage to help], Ted would have been dead. That would have been it."
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