Paddy Doherty shot to fame with a stint on long-running present My Big Fat Gyspy Wedding, however he as soon as held the “deadliest man” title.
Today (Thursday, February 29) he confirmed he was nonetheless alive, with the 65-year-old placing to mattress rumours he had died from an enormous coronary heart assault. The Celebrity Big Brother winner has since hit out at his previous picture as a hardman.
Paddy, who confronted off in opposition to Danny Dyer on the infamous World’s Deadliest Men tv programme, says the picture was all an act however did recall a horror “bareknuckle break in“.
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The star recorded a video and confirmed “I’m alive” after rumours of a coronary heart assault killing off the media star had been beforehand aired. His Facebook submit titled “NOT NOT NOT NOT DEAAAAAAAAD!” confirmed he was nonetheless alive.
He stated: “How sad life is going yeah? That people can put that people have supposed to have died of a massive heart attack…as you can see I’m here, you know what I mean? I’ve never known of this. A very very dear friend of mine rang me and said Paddy Doherty, I’m so happy to hear your voice…'”
It shouldn’t be the primary time Paddy has hit out at members of the general public. On one event he slammed a bare-knuckle boxer who had damaged into his house. Rival Tony O’Donnell filmed himself getting into Paddy’s house, and it left the ex-Big Brother contestant furious.
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“You’re up s*** creek,” he advised Tony. “You and Mark coming to my chalet…my woman was in the washroom in the back…you forget my place is videoed inside and out so I heard all the craic. I accept your challenge… you’re a stalker.”
Fuming Paddy has usually hit out at those that have wronged him, and as Danny Dyer as soon as put it when documenting the hardman traveller, Paddy was “bred to fight”. He featured on the Deadliest Men programme hosted by Dyer.
Dyer stated of Paddy: “Paddy Doherty is a legend among the travellers. He’s one of their most respected bare-fist fighters. Paddy’s a Doherty, and that means one thing. He’s been bred to fight.”
But Paddy would go on to dismiss his hardman picture as extra of a publicity stunt than the rest. He appeared in court docket in 2011 and claimed it was “all nonsense”, the Daily Mail reported. He had been testifying in opposition to Johnny Joyce, his cousin who broke his jaw “out of nowhere”.
Paddy stated of the hardman picture: “‘It’s all nonsense, it’s just for a joke. The crew sort of tells you what to say and you play along. Danny Dyer made me out to be a very different person than I was. It was just for the cameras, it’s not true.
“My preventing days had been solely once I was 18 or 20. After that I used to be accomplished with that. The soiled preventing went out years in the past. Nobody ever does that anymore. On that present I used to be mendacity for the cameras, having fun and saying what they needed. It’s not actual what was on the present.”
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