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Kevin, the teenager on RTE in the 90's.

Jamey · 2007-03-17 15:42:42

This is driving me a bit mad. Does anyone else remember like a teen presenter on RTE in the 90's. He was called Kevin and did maybe a show on Saturday morning. Anyone know what happened to him or where he is now? Or does anyone else even remember him, I'm sorry I dont have much more detail! And does anyone also remember…

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This is driving me a bit mad. Does anyone else remember like a teen presenter on RTE in the 90's. He was called Kevin and did maybe a show on Saturday morning. Anyone know what happened to him or where he is now? Or does anyone else even remember him, I'm sorry I dont have much more detail! And does anyone also remember that show on RTE on Saturday mornings where contestants on it would get gunged? What was that?

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#2 17-03-2007 4:45pm

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Bleedin' Rapid, Kevo!

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#3 17-03-2007 4:46pm

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Rapid, that does ring a bell alright!!

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#4 17-03-2007 4:48pm

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Annoying git. I remember him doing the Stream program, gaming review thing. He has his own gathering card on boards too, here.

'Gran Terismo on teh Playstayshun Teeew'

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#5 17-03-2007 4:48pm

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Yeah Yeah, its all coming back now!!! Stream...jaysus thats years ago!

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#6 17-03-2007 4:56pm

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Physiquiz was the other one on Saturday, "AH YEAH, TWO POINTS SO FAR, YEAH GO ON DERE!":mad:

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#7 17-03-2007 4:58pm

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And here was me thinking I might be the only one who remembers him haha...Wonder where he is now though...

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#8 17-03-2007 8:36pm

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Seems to have vanished off the face of Dublin. *starts Find Kevo campaign* Maybe he doesn't want to be found, I wouldn't.

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#9 17-03-2007 8:37pm

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I do remember the brillant AH thread with all the photoshopped images of him.

"Twas Bleedin' rapid and all dat!"

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#10 17-03-2007 8:42pm

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This guy?

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#11 17-03-2007 8:46pm

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ah fizzy quiz! I still remember the theme clearly!

points there for the belew team.....

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#12 17-03-2007 8:54pm

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what was the name of the show that had a wall with velcro and you had to throw balls at it, the wall turned then it was throwing frisbees into a letter box hole.

that dude was awesome.

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#13 17-03-2007 8:58pm

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Cremo wrote:

what was the name of the show that had a wall with velcro and you had to throw balls at it, the wall turned then it was throwing frisbees into a letter box hole.

Wasn't that a game on Echo Island?

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#14 17-03-2007 8:59pm

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#15 17-03-2007 9:02pm

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#16 17-03-2007 9:05pm

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basquille wrote:

Wasn't that a game on Echo Island?

dunno, that's all i could remember and that kevo was there.

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#17 17-03-2007 11:54pm

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Cremo wrote:

what was the name of the show that had a wall with velcro and you had to throw balls at it, the wall turned then it was throwing frisbees into a letter box hole.

that dude was awesome.

That was fizzy quiz. jayzuz that was a cool show! oh so 90's!

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#18 17-03-2007 11:59pm

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I was in the Audience on Scratch Saturday once with a few of my mates, and after being thrown into the corner of the set by King of the Gingers, Andy Ruane, we were next to BleedinRapidKevo(tm) while he was dressed in a Robin Costume for some sketch. Even more charming, was his way with us kids "Touch f*ckin nuffin, or I'll f*ckin kills ye all". Classy guy!

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#19 18-03-2007 12:44am

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Was that lad's name O'connell by any chance?? Something tells me it was, but I'm not 100% sure

God he was extremely annoying - how he got on so many shows is beyond me

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#20 18-03-2007 1:29am

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he was owned by rté lol, he was cheap labour.

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#21 18-03-2007 2:55am

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He also done a game review thingy for the Sunday World at some stage.

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#22 19-03-2007 2:38am

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He was the boy that grew up too fast. Or too slow. I can't tell.

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#23 19-03-2007 3:56am

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my first televisic encounter with him was the late late toy show.

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#24 19-03-2007 5:11am

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He wrecked my head

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#25 20-03-2007 2:34am

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Oh No! look what someone uploaded
http://rapidshare.com/files/21874581/kevo.zip.html

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#26 20-03-2007 2:39am

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:eek: Looks like the images from the Photoshop days on boards.

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#27 20-03-2007 8:12pm

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Kojak wrote:

Was that lad's name O'connell by any chance?? Something tells me it was, but I'm not 100% sure

God he was extremely annoying - how he got on so many shows is beyond me

Yes it was Kevin O'Connell...gosh the memories of scratch Saturday (wasn't that after the days of grabbit and fetchit and pajo??)

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#28 21-03-2007 5:43pm

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I met him twice. Once a few years ago at the launch of Playstation 2 in the Redbox and once a few months ago in RiRa when Kathryn Thomas and John Aldridge and all were there as well ( think there was some charity "You're a Star" type thing on at the time) Needless to say we hassled him for the entire night both times.

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#29 21-03-2007 6:36pm

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bleeding remember him with gaybo on de toyshow

we should lock this tread rapidly before we turn crazy.......

wonder is he buyin a ps3:D

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#30 21-03-2007 9:27pm

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legs11 wrote:

bleeding remember him with gaybo on de toyshow

we should lock this tread rapidly before we turn crazy.......

wonder is he buyin a ps3:D

Nah he already has the PS 4.

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#31 21-03-2007 9:52pm

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MiniMetro wrote:

I met him twice. Once a few years ago at the launch of Playstation 2 in the Redbox and once a few months ago in RiRa when Kathryn Thomas and John Aldridge and all were there as well ( think there was some charity "You're a Star" type thing on at the time) Needless to say we hassled him for the entire night both times.

really is in tv?

and hmm kathryn Thomas in real life

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#32 22-03-2007 8:16pm

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myself and a mate of mine came across him in burger king on oconnell street about a year ago, we gave him the whole alrite kev thing to which he replied howrya and gave us the thumbs up, he had a chirpy skanger mate with him who got thick about us trying to talk to kev so we left him be and got on with the eating

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#33 22-03-2007 9:53pm

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I seen him on a prog. on RTE 2 just around X-mas time. He hasn't changed much except he is a little taller and his voice has deepened.

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He first came to prominence "reedin' bukes" on the Toy Show. After that, Donnybrook was his Oyster.

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#35 31-03-2007 8:54pm

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I saw him this afternoon, was walking past him in a pub, and immediately thought of this thread. Had a good laugh to myself.

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#36 31-03-2007 9:01pm

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Jamey wrote:

Yeah Yeah, its all coming back now!!! Stream...jaysus thats years ago!

I remember he used to present Quiz Stream in that green Star Trek style yoke.

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#37 01-04-2007 12:32am

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Kevo has been snapped up by BBC 2. He's taken Jeremey Paxman's place on Newsnight.

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#38 25-04-2007 9:23am

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basquille wrote:

Wasn't that a game on Echo Island?

Was it not that crap prog The Works with your man from Bull Island (which was crap) and Mary "Are ye laughing?" Kingston...

Iotas etc

*shudder*

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#39 25-04-2007 9:27am

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I'd forgotten all about the Iota, and *shudder* "Are you laughing?". Mary Kingston must have really been at it under the sheets with the DG of RTE, there's no other possible explanation how someone so talentless could forge a career with the National Broadcaster.

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#40 25-04-2007 9:34am

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Yeah, I remember at the time being torn between preferring the ones on BBC where they covered you in green goop and you fell down slides and such, and The Works where you had Kev screaming in your ear.

"One sticky ball thats deadly one sticky ball so far keep it up thTWO sticky balls class yeah keep throwin dem keep thrTHREE STICKY BALLS THIS IS THE HIGHEST SO FAR EVER".

Actually, I wasnt torn between them at all. We didnt have fancy foreign channels so it was The Works and Glenroe for us

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#41 25-04-2007 10:35am

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Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

(wasn't that after the days of grabbit and fetchit and pajo??)

lol Pajo!! Wasn't he the rat with the pink mohawk??

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I was on Physiquiz circa June 1994 and almost brained the Kevmeister with a premature frisbee during the rehearsal. He spent most of his time hiding between the props to avoid the shrill entreaties of my demob-happy classmates in the audience. Our reward for winning the quiz was a trashy walkman apiece, which the production people retrieved from us after the show; apparently they needed them for further tapings (took them about 4 months to get them to us.)

Oddly enough, the other presenter was Barry Murphy of Aprés Match fame. He looked bored out of his tree, as you can imagine. I was somewhat startled to see him crop up on oddball late-night show The End later that year.

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Sheridan wrote:

Oddly enough, the other presenter was Barry Murphy of Aprés Match fame. He looked bored out of his tree, as you can imagine. I was somewhat startled to see him crop up on oddball late-night show The End later that year.

No way!!! I don't ever remember him being on Physiquiz....I wonder is he as embarrassed about it as Dara O'Briain is about Echo Island???

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Met him recently at a poker tournament. Very nice fella. Seemed amused that I knew him "after all these year. Jaysus man you musta been a toddler" Well I was hardly watching late late toy show in my thirties!

Ended up knocking him out which was nice.

Edit: He now works behind the scenes apparantly (where the magic happens so to speak!

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Yep, he's a friend of my cousins.

Him and another guy from RTE (better looking, if a bit effeminate) are often to be seen on ground level bar in Bruxelles early on Saturdays...about 6->9, before they go to Lillies.

He's alright I think, his 15 mins are well and truly up. Gonna print this out and give it to him next time I see him...he'll be chuffed!

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I might leave my bit out of the print-out.

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I always had it in my head that he was Brenda Donoghue's son!

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#48 13-07-2007 1:41pm

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He is. He's the love child of her and Gerry Ryan.

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#49 13-07-2007 1:42pm

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I would have said the love child of her, and Brendan O'Carroll.

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ned78 wrote:

Brendan O'Carroll.

Y'know, I've gone years without having that hateful dwarf in my brain.

Thanks for putting him back.

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#51 13-07-2007 5:01pm

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doesn't Kevo do the Books segment on the Late Late Toy Show?

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