THIS Saturday a Boltonian will be one of the few television stars to make a Saturday night double bill.

Presenter and comic Paddy McGuinness has gone from driving around in a van with Peter Kay to fighting sharks, ghosts and an intergalactic Empire.

It is not your usual day job – especially for a lad from Bolton – but when you are a television favourite and best friends with eccentric comedian Keith Lemon anything is possible.

It has a been a busy week for the duo with the London preview of their new programme, The Keith and Paddy Picture Show, and rounds of promotions before it airs on ITV this Saturday.

Paddy said: “It is full on but its is all good! It’s been eight years to get it where it is but it has come together at the right time.”

The 9.15pm show sees Keith, Paddy and a host of special guests recreate some of Hollywood’s most famous films. It is an opportunity for Paddy to step into the shoes of stars like Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing, Harrison Ford in Star Wars and Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.

He adds: “As a kid from Daubhill and brought up in Bolton, to be in the same set as James Bond in Pinewood in a big water tank filming, I couldn’t believe what was happening. I’m still very much the same person I was then but in this weird and wonderful world where you are on a movie set. We had a really good laugh making it, we just hope people like it.”

The show opener will be a recreation of iconic 80’s movie, Dirty Dancing. It was one of the easier films for the comic – having to face hours in the make-up chair for some of the other episodes.

Paddy explains: “The trickiest thing was the prosthetics. I didn’t think I had a problem with claustrophobia until then. It’s moulded on to your face and it takes an hour and a half to remove. We wanted to feel like a film and look like a film. We went proper big on it . Watching it back I can’t believe what we have done on a budget.”

The first series has yet to go to air yet but the pair already have plans for a sequel – with their sights set on the Karate Kid and Pretty Woman. And due to an unexpected scheduling decision, Paddy will be appearing twice on our screens as he also fronts dating show Take Me Out, just a few hours before on ITV.

He said: “Where I grew up in Auburn Street in a two-up-two-down, Saturday night telly was a big thing. To be on it, I still pinch myself. My role models where Fred Dibnah and Stu Francis, they are miles apart from what I do but it shows what someone from Bolton can do. There are a lot of us out there on the TV, we are like the Mafia!”