Christine McGuinness has revealed that her ex-husband Paddy McGuinness, who she still lives with in the family home, must follow a house rule now that he has started dating again
TV personality Christine McGuinness has shed more light on her ‘difficult’ and costly divorce from her ex-husband Paddy McGuinness. The former couple still live together in their sprawling Cheshire home with their three children, Felicity, eight, and 11-year-old twins Leo and Penelope.
After 11 years of marriage, the couple separated in 2022 but chose to keep living together for the sake of their autistic children. Christine has confirmed Paddy, 51, is now back in the dating game however he must abide by one house rule – to never bring women home.
Speaking on the latest episode of The Shizzio Show, Christine revealed it was something “unforgivable” that made them separate in 2022. However, she doesn’t know if she will ever talk about what happened between them.
“It was a difficult time. It wasn’t something that, you know, I just decided to do overnight, or that we chose to do”, she said. “We tried, and, yeah, there just, unfortunately, there was no repairing it, you know”?
She continued: “I’ll always, always love him as the father of the children, and I still live at home with him, which says a lot. We separated three years ago, and we are completely divorced, and we live in separate parts of the house, but we share a family home”.
The mum-of-three also admitted that she is still left paying off her £300, 00 divorce bill. “There was times where it was fine and really civil, and we were agreeing on what we wanted and what we were going, then there was times where it felt like we were starting all the way back at the beginning”.
She added: “It’s the biggest bill I have ever paid in my life, and I will say that I paid for my own divorce, nobody else.” Paddy recently opened up on what he looks for in a relationship. Speaking to Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie on their Table Manners podcast, the star revealed what made him “putty” in a woman’s hands.
Speaking to the duo, Paddy said of his connection with his mother: “Growing up it was just me and my mum and I would see my dad on weekends. She gave up her life for me and I didn’t realise until I was older, after she died. I wish I could have spoiled her rotten. My mum would make pies, big Sunday dinners”.
And he explained how cooking a dinner really is the way to his heart. “Everyone who makes me something now I am instantly putty in their hands”, he confessed. “I’m like, ‘ this is amazing, this is the best! ‘”
Paddy later went on to skirt over the question about his current dating status. Lennie asked: “Can I ask a cheeky question are you dating? Because I’d love to see Take Me Out again”.
Instead of answering about his personal status, he revealed he is unsure whether Take Me Out would work as well in today’s world. However, he revealed he would be up for a charity edition of the dating show.
“I’d be all over a charity special but as a series I don’t know”, he said. “Now, at the age I’m at, if I’m taking to a 20-year-old about dating, I wouldn’t have a clue. We are one of the most successful dating shows. We’ve had about six marriages”.
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