THERE’LL be no mobile home for Max and Paddy star Paddy McGuinness on the road with Britain’s Got Talent this month, he’ll be enjoying the comforts of tour bus and hotel facilities, instead of the company of Peter Kay as Paddy’s fellow Phoenix Nights bouncer Maxwell Bygraves.

“It’s been two or three year since I were last on the road, but then it were a couple of year before my first tour so I always like to have a bit of time off in between,” he says, in his rich Lancashire burr.

Paddy is compering the Britain’s Got Talent Live tour which arrives at the BIC on July 3.

“I’m only there to bring the acts on and off though I’ll do a bit in between. I’m going on tour in 2011 so this is good way to get back into it. The thing I don’t like about touring is all the travelling, but this’ll be OK as there’s loads of different people.

“I only met them the other day, most of them were there with their chaperones so I don’t think there’ll be many late nights on tour, not that you can do all that when you’re touring, you’d be knackered!”

Busy as ever, Paddy had been looking forward to wallowing in World Cup action for the next few weeks.

“It’s always the way in this game, when you want to be home you’re up and down the motorway to London recording television.

“There’s a new Take Me Out to be done and some other things, it’s been all go.

“Still, I managed to see a few games, but I missed the Germany game when they won 4-0. As for England, people have been going on about Rob Green and all that, it was an horrendous mistake, but what about the rest of the team?

“They didn’t look interested and I forgot Rooney was even on the pitch.

“Maybe the USA got the tactics exactly right, but they’re not worldbeaters are they?”

l See the Magazine with your Daily Echo on June 26 for a full interview with BGT finalist Paul Burling and more from Paddy.