Paddy McGuinness claims he earned £17.50 a week aged 16 while walking to work ‘with holes in his shoes’ – as he returns to the site of his first job in Inside The Factory

Paddy McGuinness has revealed that he was like ‘the Jeff Bezos of Bolton’ as he earned £17.50 a week aged 16 while he walked to work with holes in his shoes. 

The comedian, 51, returned to where he first landed a paying job in his latest episode of BBC’s Inside The Factory – Warburton’s bread factory. 

But in a chat with The Mirror, Paddy revealed that while he used to walk there in split trainers he used to feel like Jeff Bezos. 

He explained that in 1989 he used to clean out the ovens for the factory and would get paid less than £20 for all his hard work. 

And while that may not seem like a lot now, Paddy revealed that back in then even a tenner would make you feel rich in Bolton. 

He told the publication: ‘It was a lovely feeling knowing you had a tenner. 

Paddy McGuinness has revealed that he was the Jeff Bezos of Bolton as he earned £17.50 a week aged 16 while walking to work with holes in his shoes

The comedian, 51, returned to where he first landed a paying job in his latest episode of BBC’s Inside The Factory – Warburton’s bread factory

‘A tenner back then in Bolton with me and my mates, I was like f***ing Jeff Bezos, you know.’

Paddy then went on to explain that he would wake up everyday Saturday at 6am during the winter. 

And his determination to earn some cash was unbreakable as he revealed that he would still turn up when it was cold and wet. 

He added: ‘It was always raining, pitch black and freezing. I had a hole in my trainer where my sock would hang out.’

Paddy has seemed to have settled well into his new hosting role exploring factories. 

He made his Inside The Factory debut alongside Cherry Healy last month during the BBC show’s Christmas special. 

Previously Paddy revealed he was nervous about working with co-host Cherry for the first time, in an interview with The Sun.

He said: ‘That’s always the tricky bit, you hope you get on. But I’m telling you now, me and Cherry do so much laughing.

Previously Paddy revealed he was nervous about working with co-host Cherry for the first time, in an interview with The Sun 

Gregg stepped down from the show last year after the allegations in regard to female factory workers at Nestle, where he was filming at the time

‘As soon as I met her, we had the biggest talk and we just got on like that. 

‘This is testament to her – when I did my Children in Need challenge, she turned up in Kendal to surprise me – she even brought me up a lasagne she’d made!’

‘I drove in in this big heavy goods vehicle for the first shot. I thought ‘I got my heavy goods licence doing Top Gear, now I’m driving into the place I used to work at 30-odd years ago, hosting another show for the BBC’.

‘When I was that 16-year-old kid who used to walk to work with butties my mum had made me, who’d have thought all these years later, I’d have had all these amazing things go on in my life.

‘It was one of those moments where I thought ‘B****y h***, life eh? It does have its twists and turns’.’

Gregg stepped down from the show last year after the allegations in regard to female factory workers at Nestle, where he was filming at the time.

Sources said he had been ‘rude towards staff’ and spoke to them in a ‘derogatory manner, especially to women’. But he later denied accusations, saying the claims were ‘inaccurate’.

The show visits factories up and down the country to see how our favourite products are made.

In the ninth season, Paddy and Cherry visit a host of new factories that produce some of our favourite foods on a massive scale, from sliced bread to flapjacks and sausage rolls. 

In a Christmas special the duo visit a chocolate factory in Belgium to learn how they produce an incredible four million individual chocolate shells every single day. 

Gregg is facing accusations of inappropriate behaviour across five shows over a 17-year period. 

Staff members and former contestants, including celebrities such as Emma Kennedy and Kirsty Wark, have claimed the former greengrocer made them feel uncomfortable on set. 

Gregg has been accused of a raft of inappropriate behaviour including walking around on set naked except for a sock on his penis, getting changed in front of female staff, and even groping crew members.

Other allegations include sharing intimate details of his sex life, becoming fixated on a female staff member who was dating women and asking her about the ‘logistics’ and flirting with younger women on set.

Gregg stepped down from MasterChef while an external investigation is conducted by production company Banijay UK. 

It was reported by The Times that he had allegedly offended certain female staff members at the Nestlé UK factory in York with comments about their weight during a ‘friendly’ conversation.

The comments were non-sexual but were deemed ‘inappropriate’ and a complaint was lodged with Voltage TV, the production company responsible for developing the show. 

Gregg then stepped back from MasterChef after nearly 20 years amid an investigation into his alleged misconduct, with Grace Dent is replacing him as judge (pictured with co-host John Torode)

‘He was rude towards staff and continued to talk in a derogatory manner, especially to women.

‘He was given a talking-to and was appalled that he had caused such offence,’ a source said.

Voltage TV asked Wallace to moderate his language and filming continued – but his behaviour seemingly didn’t change.

Staff reportedly informed management that they did not want the show to return while Wallace remained at the helm.