Paddy Doherty's Biography

Paddy Doherty was 52-years-old when he won Celebrity Big Brother in 2011.

Paddy Doherty had become known to a wider audience through another reality TV show, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.

Doherty is a traveller and a former bare-knuckle fighter, who has worked for the family business from the age of 12.

He lives in a caravan park in Manchester and has 5 children and 15 grandchildren.

Two years prior to My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Paddy Doherty appeared in Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men, broadcast by Bravo.

This Daily Mail article described a fracas involving Paddy Doherty.

Paddy Doherty testified against his cousin who was accused of breaking Doherty's jaw at a caravan park in Salford, Greater Manchester.

In 2012, Channel Five scheduled a two part documentary series, entitled When Paddy Met Sally, in which his former Celebrity Big Brother housemate Sally Bercow moves in with Paddy Doherty for two weeks.

In 2017, Paddy Doherty's father Simon Doherty died.