TAKE Me Out presenter Paddy McGuinness has joked that children's show Teletubbies has plagiarised his popular dating show.

The dating show is well known for having a lift in which each week's contestants arrive on set with, before hoping that one of 30 girls is impressed enough to go out on a date with him.

But on Twitter it was pointed out to Paddy that the popular children's show, which has recently been remade after originally stopping in 2001, now has a lift similar to that on Take Me Out.

On Twitter, Jason Moffat said: "Looks like the Teletubbies now have a love lift."

Paddy, who is currently on tour performing his standup comedy show Daddy McGuinness, simply replied: "Plagiarism!"