Paddy McGuinness has revealed he once dragged a dirty mattress from a back street to his family home and slept on it for six years as a teen.The Top Gear host, who’s currently writing his autobiography, recalled: “I remember as a kid going out in to the back street, finding a mattress on the floor and thinking, ‘That’s a decent mattress.’ "I dragged it home to my house and put it on my bed and it stayed there for six years.
It was totally normal. Now, I wouldn’t even stand on it. If I stood on it, I’d burn my shoes after.”Paddy, who is now worth around £8million after his success with Phoenix Nights, Take Me Out and Top Gear, added the bed had probably been peed on by a pooch.
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