Meatball Paddy Show Coming To BBC

The Paddy and Molly show will debut this summer on BBC 3 and give fans a look into the family lives of the two U.K. combat sports stars.

Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann are set to star in a new reality TV show on BBC 3 this summer.

The show, entitled ‘Paddy & Molly: Show No Mersey’ will follow the two UFC stars through their fight lives and personal lives as they struggle with the ups and downs of being combat sports stars. The ‘Mersey’ part of the title is a pun on the River Mersey which travels through Liverpool, where the two fighters are from.

“We can’t wait for you all to see what a day in the life for us both entails,” said Pimblett and McCann (yes, both of them somehow, according to BBC). “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows and a lot goes into what we do. You won’t believe it until you see it, so get watching.”

The BBC promises a good dose of reality viewing as provided by Paddy’s wife Laura who is pregnant with twins, and Molly’s fiancé Ellis, who seems like a sweet lass. Maybe after this we’ll have less idiot fans asking if Pimblett and McCann are romantically linked.

After going on a solid three-fight win streak (including an impressive spinning fist KO in 2022), McCann has struggled with two back-to-back losses. The last time we saw her in the cage was for a nasty first round submission loss to Jilija Stoliarenko in July 2023. Molly always takes her losses hard and the mental game will be a big part of her next fight. She’s set to scrap with Diana Belbita on February 3rd in the UFC Apex.

As for Paddy Pimblett, his career continues to move upwards. He’s 21-3 across MMA and 5-0 in the UFC. After a controversial decision win over Jared Gordon and a long layoff due to injury, Pimblett returned to win a one-sided contest against former interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson (watch the highlights here). He’s currently eating his way across the U.K. despite a past declaration that’d he’d stop binge-eating between fights.

‘Paddy & Molly: Show No Mersey’ airs this summer on BBC 3 in the U.K. and on the BBC iPlayer for folks around the world with a decent VPN.