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Paddy McGuinness to get staggering £3m charity donation from billionaire after gruelling bike ride


Paddy McGuinness will now receive a huge £3m donation pledged by a billionaire who made his fortune after starting out selling trainers from the back of a van

In 1998, he sold the business to JJB Sports for a whopping £290 million, securing his initial fortune and subsequently establishing the Hunter Foundation with his wife Marion that same year. Last month, he paid for a private jet to bring home the body of former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, who passed away unexepctedly from a heart attack while at a conference in North Macedonia. Sir Tom stepped in because he believed Mr Salmond had "devoted his life to Scotland and the Scottish people and as such he, and importantly his family, deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth".

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