Due to ‘co-parenting’ concerns, Paddy McGuinness was forced to leave Channel 4 show Don’t Look Down for SU2C.
The former Take Me Out host, 50, who has three children with his ex-wife Christine McGuinness, Penelope and Leo, ten, and Felicity, seven, is one of the celebs taking on scary feats to raise money for charity.
Paddy, who divorced Christine after 11 years of marriage, was forced to cut his time on Tuesday’s show short in order to care for their children.
Before leaving the Austrian training camp of the hit show, the Phoenix Nights star told the group: ‘Unfortunately today I’ve got to go home and I might not be back for at least a week. Co-parenting… We’ve no one at all to help us with the kids.’
He added: ‘With our children, they need me or Christine there or people who are in our support network. I’ll have a hell of a lot of catching up to do when I get back.
‘I’m gutted because the guys will be 10 metres up in the air and it will feel like starting again but there’s just nothing I can do about it.’
Paddy wasn’t the only star forced to leave Don’t Look Down, with Coronation Street great Beverley Callard quitting from training after suffering a kidney injury.
Breaking the news to her teammates, Beverley said: ‘I’m going to try not to cry… At some point, I damaged my kidney and I’ve seen a doctor and I can’t wear a harness, I can’t do any sport at the moment and I’ve got to go.’
She added: ‘I am broken-hearted, I was loving it. I don’t want to go, I so badly don’t want to go…’
Beverley’s shocked teammates rallied around her, including Olympic winner Victoria Pendleton, who urged the actress, “You’re so brave, you just get up there and do it.”
‘If you were healthy, you would have 100% achieved this. There’s no doubt in my mind because you’re so brave.’
Paddy and another actress Kimberly Wyatt, 41, were hung 1,000 feet from Penken Mountain in Austria in an earlier edition of Don’t Look Down.
Paddy almost fell down the cliff when he lost his balance and nearly slid, but he was wearing very strong harnesses.
Anton Ferdinand, David Ginola, Charley Boorman, GK Barry, Fats Timbo, and Chris Hughes join Paddy, Kimberly, Victoria, and Beverley on the high-octane show.
Don’t Look Down for SU2C continues on Channel 4 on Thursday 2nd November at 9pm.
