Fellow Boltonians Vernon Kay and Paddy McGuinness have signed up together for the new series of Celebrity Gogglebox, which kicks off on Friday

They may be radio hosts now but the pair have presented many hours of TV over the years(Image: Rachel Joseph / Channel 4)

Two Radio 2 stars are teaming up for the first time to appear on Celebrity Gogglebox – and have promised to have “no filter” when it comes to sharing their opinions.

Fellow Boltonians Vernon Kay and Paddy McGuinness, both 51, will be sitting alongside each other when the show returns to Channel 4 on Friday.

It’s a good job Strictly Come Dancing isn’t on, or Vernon might find himself having to comment on his TV presenter wife Tess Daly(Image: Rachel Joseph / Channel 4)

Paddy agreed that he was delighted to take part in a series he’d been watching for years. ”I’m delighted to be doing Celebrity Gogglebox with Vernon. I’ve been on there enough times behind the camera, finally I get a chance to talk about other shows. I’ve been a fan of Gogglebox for ages, so to be part of it with a fellow Boltonian is belting. As you’d expect with Vernon and myself it’ll be full of cultured, intellectual chat. Let the armchair punditry commence!”

The pair have plenty in common – not only are they the same age, from the same place, and work for the same radio station, they have both taken on huge sporting challenges for Children in Need in recent years.

In 2023 Vernon raised more than £6million with his ultra ultra marathon while last year Paddy pulled in more than £10million by cycling 300 miles on a Raleigh Chopper.

Spandau star Martin Kemp and his son Roman will be back along with many other of the regulars(Image: Channel 4)

And when it comes to TV they really should know what they’re talking about – Paddy’s former shows include Top Gear, A Question of Sport and Take Me Out – plus Peter Kay comedy Phoenix Nights – while Vernon fronted All Star Family Fortunes, Splash and T4.

Many of the regulars will be back for Celebrity Gogglebox including Rylan Clark and his mum Linda, Denise Van Outen and Johnny Vaughan, Gok Wan and Fearne Cotton, Gyles Brandreth and Lulu, Nick and Liv Grimshaw, Clare Balding and Alice Arnold, Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aleshe and Martin and Roman Kemp. Also new for this series are Inbetweeners star James Buckley and his wife Clair.

The 37-year-old actor, best known for portraying Jay Cartwright in the hit sitcom, announced this weekend that he and his wife of 13 years were joining the show. In a video he quipped: “We are joining the Gogglebox family. We’re going to be watching some great TV and some not so great TV.”

James and Clair, who met on social media and have two children together, have already won fans over with their podcast, At Home With The Buckleys, which looks at “the wild ride that is modern marriage, parenting and adulting”’.