Paddy MacDee is a former television presenter, newsreader, radio presenter and compere from

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. He is best known for his work on

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(North East and Cumbria) and

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Life and career

MacDee started out working in a law firm as an articled clark, while having his own mobile disco on the side. In the end, he decided to stop working in law and focus on his popular discos. This then led Paddy to working in radio. In 1973, Paddy presented his first radio show, on BBC Radio Cleveland, his first ever interviewee was

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, who was playing in

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. MacDee worked full-time for the

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until 1977, before spending eight years at

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. He returned to the

in the 1980s. He is best known for presenting programmes for BBC Radio Cleveland,

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and

including The Late Paddy MacDee Show and Solid Gold Sunday for over 40 years until 2020. MacDee was previously a news reader for

and

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for many years. MacDee is married to former television presenter Lyn Spencer in which they have one son together.

References

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