Darts legend John McDonald is back from retirement to take part in Netflix’s Beat Luke Littler show later this week.The former MP became one of the voices of darts with his introductions for players all across the world in the PDC events.Littler is set to take on a series of challengers in a live eventShutterstock EditorialAnd despite putting the mic down after the 2025/26 World Darts Championship final at the start of this year, he is back.And he will be taking part in something very new for darts.There are 20 people of various levels and from all types of backgrounds that are taking on Littler over one leg.If they manage to hit a winning double before the two-time world champion, they will claim some life-changing money with £501,000 up for grabs.That’s enough to tempt McDonald out of retirement with the event marking his first televised appearance since the 2026 World Darts Championship final at the Alexandra Palace that Littler won, and it is just a one-off.Speaking to The Sun, he said: “It’s a special event and for that reason I’ll come out and do it.“Evidently in the production meeting, Luke Littler said they should get me. I thought that was nice. He’s a nice kid.“When I covered Luke Littler’s Super-16 final three years ago at Ally Pally, I said to him: ‘I’m sorry there’s nobody here, mate, but one day you’ll be playing on this stage in front of thousands.’“And he said: ‘Yeah, Wednesday, I’ve qualified.’ He was 16. As a MC, I never get a second go at anything. I have always worked live.“I can’t go ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen…’ Oh, sorry, could I do that again?McDonald is a total legend in darts and his return will be hugeGetty“I never get that chance. If I make a mistake, these things happen, and I was quite lucky, I didn’t make too many.“When you do that for a living you’ve got to get it right and you tend to always operate like that. I did that for 38 years.“I’m looking forward to being back on tele, back entertaining, and once again darts is the winner.”McDonald’s retirementMcDonald took the job as PDC MC in 2007 and racked up 19 years of experience before calling it a day.Before the final, that Littler won 7-1 against Gian van Veen, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.But the decision to retire wasn’t forced upon McDonald.Littler personally picked McDonald to be MCGettySpeaking to talkSPORT Drive, he said: “I’m not getting any younger for sure.“I’ve missed so much of my own children growing up, never mind my grandchildren.“And what really spurred me on [to retire] was I got a call from my grandson, who plays at the Chelsea Foundation.“He said, ‘I’m playing at Southampton tomorrow, grandad, can you come and watch?’“I was like, ‘No, I can’t, I’m up in Leicester.’ And he said to me that it’s all right because his other grandad could take him, and I felt a bit left out again.“I thought, ‘How many times do you do this in your life when you feel so left out,’ so I thought ‘Well, I’ve had a good run, it’s time for someone else to enjoy it.’“I thought that maybe I can go off and enjoy my eight grandchildren and my lovely wife, that’s what I’ll do and I can’t wait.”