Paddy McGuinness reveals how he survived earning £17.50-a-week in first job

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Paddy McGuinness reveals how he survived earning £17.50-a-week in first job
Author: mirrornews@mirror.co.uk (Mark Jefferies)
Published: Jan, 06 2025 20:00

He used to walk there in split trainers and a wet sock to earn less than twenty pounds - but TV host Paddy McGuinness has returned to where he first started work in style driving a HGV truck. On BBC's Inside the Factory tonight, Paddy heads to Warburtons bread factory in Bolton where he had his first £17.50-a-week job as a 16-year-old.

But because it was a Saturday job, the giant machines he cleaned weren’t running, so after delivering flour in the truck he sees them in action for the first time. Looking back, honest Paddy said: "It's very rare you love your job when you're 16. You're doing it for money, aren't you? You know. So luckily that job, all the lads who worked there at the time were all similar ages, so that was a good part of it, because you'd have a laugh and you'd talk about football or whatever. It was a Saturday job, cleaning machines in winter. I walked there in the morning, at six in the morning. It were always raining, pitch black, freezing. I had a hole in me trainer where my sock would hang out. I would clean all day, and then I walk back in the dark and the rain. So it was one of them jobs. I just like, hated it. I had mates who carried on working there, and then years later, obviously I've now gone back, and I forgot actually what it's like as a place. It was so lovely to go around it and see a different side of it, really, and see people who work there. I drove into the factory in a HGV and the only reason I got my licence for that is doing it through hosting Top Gear so it shows where life's twists and turns can take you.".

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