I sat on a hot CHILLI during nude kitchen romp with Christine, reveals Paddy McGuinness

PADDY McGUINNESS spent years helping people spice up their love life as the host of dating show Take Me Out.

But the comic and presenter has revealed how he inadvertently turned the heat up on his own passions when he accidentally sat on a pile of chopped chilli peppers during a kitchen romp with his wife.

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Paddy says he returned home to find former Real Housewives Of Cheshire cast member Christine cooking in nothing but a pinny, but says he still cringes at the memory of his burning bare buttocks.

In an exclusive interview, Paddy, 48, told The Sun on Sunday: “So, what happened was that I jumped on the kitchen counter naked and pretty much sat on a chilli and it wasn’t the best of experiences, I can tell you.

“Once bitten, twice, shy, that’s for sure. Let me tell you, it was like a ring of fire.

“I know some people can’t even put chillies in their mouth — and if you do put them in your mouth, they usually leave your body from the same place that I sat on, if you know what I mean. It’s not something I’ll be repeating.

“I had to cool the whole situation down in the end and used some Sudocrem and a very cold bath. I have now made a full recovery.”

The romp happened before he and Christine became parents to twins Penelope and Leo, now nine, and daughter Felicity, now five.

Paddy said: “Before you have kids there are a lot of things you do that you don’t carry on doing. I don’t have to worry about that these days.”

Paddy first hit our screens in the 2001 comedy Phoenix Nights, about a struggling Bolton nightclub owner played by his pal Peter Kay.

But it was his role hosting Take Me Out, which was commissioned by ITV in 2010, that made him a household name.

The contest involved one single man trying to win a date on the fictional Isle of Fernando’s by impressing a group of 30 women.

The girls would turn off their lights if they did not fancy the fella, leading to Paddy’s catchphrase, “No likey, No lighty”.

Take Me Out was axed two years ago and he has gone on to host Top Gear and A Question Of Sport, while still finding time to be a devoted dad.

But he admits there is still a great deal more he wants to achieve in his career.

He said: “I’ve been doing the job for over 20 years now, right from the days of Phoenix Nights.

“Before that I used to write sob stories for local radio DJs to read out on air.

“I’ve always been lucky enough to work but it’s because I’ve gone out and pushed.

“The show I owe more to than any other is definitely Take Me Out. The amount of young people who literally stop me every day about that show — whether it’s to say a catchphrase or something or other — is amazing.

“It shows you the power of that programme and people will say to me, ‘We watched it and it got us through uni’.

“Would I do another series? I can’t see that coming back as a full series but if it came back for a one-off special, I’d love to.”

Paddy even wants to return to acting and has asked his friends, who work on gritty cop drama Line Of Duty, for a part.

He said: “I’d like to go back to doing a little bit of acting. I don’t do much of that at the minute, so that’d be something I’d really like to pursue.

“I watch lots of dramas that I think are amazing, like Peaky Blinders, and I know the guys from Line Of Duty, so I’m always saying to them, ‘Is there any chance of me having a part in that?’. I could be a goody or a baddy. I could be anything.

“I have been in touch with them all many times on that show and they always go, ‘Yeah, great idea Paddy’, but it never happens, so I’ve resigned myself to it not happening.”

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Paddy is honest enough to admit his life is not as perfect as it appears.

His family live in a £2.1million house in Cheshire and enjoy a standard of living he never could have dreamed of growing up in Lancashire.

Yet all three of his children have autism.

Christine, who he married in 2011, was also diagnosed with the lifelong development disability last year at the age of 33.

She has previously said the discovery was a “huge relief” because it allowed her to understand why “I am the way I am”.

Paddy agrees but says meeting these complex needs has pushed them all to breaking point at times.

He added: “When I think back to the twins, Leo and Penelope, and the lack of sleep me and Christine had, it really affected us both.

“That is when I first started going into that depressive state and I felt like we were permanently jet-lagged.

“I remember we had an incident once where we were in a disabled parking bay and a fella came up to me and said . . . well, he didn’t say anything at first. It was the way he looked.

“He caught me on a bit of an off day. I was like, ‘Is everything all right? Is there a problem?’

“And he was like, ‘You are in a disabled spot’, and I said, ‘Yeah’. And he went, ‘Well, the children don’t look disabled’.

“But what does that look like? It is that kind of thing where it drives you mad.”

No idea he’s famous

Incredibly Paddy, who appeared in Coronation Street as survival expert Dougie Ryan in 2015 and in The Keith And Paddy Picture Show with Keith Lemon two years later, reveals his children have no idea he is famous.

He said: “My kids don’t know what I do for a living.

“People will ask me for a selfie, or they’ll speak to me about something they’ve seen me in on the TV and it’s always really friendly and lovely.

“But my children still don’t fully understand what I do for a living.

“So when a random person stops me and asks for photo, my kids are thinking, ‘Why does that person want a photo of my daddy?’.

“I’ll just say, ‘Oh don’t worry, it’s just a friend of mine’, or something like that.”

Last year, the presenter and his wife were praised for filming emotional BBC1 documentary Paddy And Christine McGuinness: Our Family And Autism.

An estimated 700,000 people in the UK are thought to be autistic but it remains a relatively misunderstood condition.

Paddy said: “One of the major positives to come out of doing the documentary was that it helped to explain our day-to-day situation to our close-knit group of friends and family.

“Because even though you tell your friends and family certain things that you can and can’t do in a normal day — or if you’re going on holiday or whatever — they still don’t fully understand it.”

To help raise awareness, the couple have started a new podcast, Table Talk, in partnership with McCain Foods and the Family Fund charity.

Paddy revealed in a recent episode that the couple still haven’t told their children they have autism.

He said: “We haven’t mentioned it. We just feel they are happy as they are. It might be a bit much for them, so we are picking our moment with them.”

On the daily struggles their family face, he said: “My daughter Penelope struggles with socks.

“If they are not on exactly right on her feet and there is a little bit of a twist on the front, or something rubbing her toes, she really doesn’t like it.

“This is one of the things that for me was difficult back in the day.

“Our children academically are miles ahead of everyone in their class, even the year above.

“It is so confusing as a parent. They are super-intelligent and bright and they read and understand things but, for instance, with the socks — you can’t get your head around it.”

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