Paddy McGuinness has teased a return of Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere with Peter Kay, nearly two decades after it was on our screens.
The former Take Me Out star and acclaimed comedian, who is now back to performing stand-up for the first time in 12 years, starred in the hit comedy series in 2004.
It followed the pair straight on from the last episodes of Phoenix Nights, as the nightclub doormen toured around the UK in their prized campervan, on the run from a club patron who threatened to have them killed by a hitman.
The programme proved to be hugely popular – despite only lasting six episodes.
But it could be back! Paddy hinted: ‘Well, when we talk about stuff, the interesting thing about Max and Paddy, and Phoenix Nights is now, we are kind of all of an age of the people we played back then.
‘But we do talk about it and what have you, but, I don’t, I can’t, I can’t see it at the minute, but we never say never, but it’s good to talk.
‘Like Max and Paddy for instance, we wrote a couple of Christmas specials, and we still got them.
‘And we never got around to doing them for whatever the reason were back in the day. But we’ve actually got them!’
He insisted that the specials are ‘done’, continuing on Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp: ‘These days, I’m inherently lazy. So I like doing as little as possible for as much money as possible. I think that’s the key to life!’
Paddy added: ‘No, the thing is, with anything, if you’re doing a scripted comedy show, it does take a long time.
‘And if someone like Peter, who is a real perfectionist, the reason his stuff is so good and so well loved is because he spends a lot of time on it in the edit and everything else.
‘So to do something like, you have literally got to kind of blank out 12 months of your life and genuinely at the moment.
‘I mean, he’s on tour. I’ve got all kinds of stuff going on, and it’s just sort of going “right, let’s get together. Let’s get our diaries together. And let’s blank out for that time”.’
Peter and Paddy reprised their roles in a 2005 parody fitness DVD while they also starred in Phoenix Nights Live in Manchester in 2015 for Comic Relief.
Paddy’s comments come amid uncertainty about Top Gear’s future, after filming for the current series has been halted and rumours Freddie Flintoff is ‘quitting’.
In December, it was reported that the former cricket star was ‘lucky to be alive’ after an accident that occurred when he was filming the BBC series at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.
Flintoff’s car is said to have flipped and he was airlifted to hospital with broken ribs and facial injuries despite wearing a helmet.
Filming on the series will not resume, the BBC announced, amid reports that ‘daredevil’ Flintoff is ‘quitting the show’.
A statement from BBC Studios said it had ‘concluded its investigation into the accident at the Top Gear Test Track in Surrey last December, which regrettably injured presenter Freddie Flintoff.’
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It continued: ‘We have sincerely apologised to Freddie and will continue to support him with his recovery. Under the circumstances, we feel it would be inappropriate to resume making series 34 of Top Gear at this time.
‘We understand this will be disappointing for fans, but it is the right thing to do, and we’ll make a judgment about how best to continue later this year.’
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