Paddy McGuinness and family to feature in TV documentary on autism

A BBC documentary featuring the Top Gear presenter, his wife and his three children who are on the autism spectrum, airs this evening 
Paddy McGuinness and family to feature in TV documentary on autism

Christine McGuinness and Paddy McGuinness attending the National Television Awards 2019 held at the O2 Arena, London.

TV presenter Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine are due to share their family’s experience of autism in a BBC documentary.

All three of their children have been diagnosed with autism – as has Christine, 33 – and Paddy, 48, told listings magazine Radio Times that they decided to let cameras into their Cheshire home in the hope that “other families might not feel so alone or isolated”.

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