How to get Paddy McGuinness UK tour tickets as general on sale goes live

Paddy McGuinness will soon be touring the UK with his first stand-up tour in eight years, and here’s how you can snap up tickets today.

By Laura Wybrow

Published: Friday, 08 December 2023 at 10:03 AM

It’s been a great year for comedy lovers with comedians going on tour; we’ve seen the likes of John Bishop, Jimmy Carr, Frank Skinner, Bill Bailey, Ed Gamble, and more announce UK dates. Now, Paddy McGuinness has thrown his hat into the ring with a 2024 and 2025 UK tour.

It seems like the Bolton-born comedian has been on our TV screens forever; we can’t remember a time when ‘no likey, no lighty’, from the hit ITV dating show Take Me Out hosted by McGuinness, wasn’t in our vocabulary.

However, it was through the help of fellow comedian Peter Kay that McGuinness rose to fame; Kay invited the now-50-year-old to appear in programmes such as That Peter Kay Thing, Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere.

McGuinness hosted the dating show Take Me Out for nine years, but that wasn’t the only television series the comedian fronted; McGuinness has presented BBC’s Top Gear since 2019 and A Question of Sport since 2021.

However, it’s stand-up comedy where McGuinness came from, and he’ll be returning to his roots with the Nearly There UK tour. Speaking about the run, the presenter said: “It’s been eight years since my last tour, and there’s lots of things to laugh about! I’m looking forward to getting back in front of a live audience, along with running the gauntlet of cancel culture, clickbait and fake news!”

You might’ve seen that there was a McGuinness pre-sale which you could register for at Ticketmaster; the pre-sale registration closed at 5pm on Wednesday 6th December, with the actual pre-sale taking place yesterday (Thursday 7th December) at 10am. However, with general on sale going live today, there are still tickets available for all you comedy-lovers.

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