Celebrity Columnists- Do they really write their own columns?

Corsendonk

Just watched the Evening Herald new add with their celebrity columnists looking really pretty after 4 hours of makeup. But do any of these celebrity columnists popping up in the Irish print media actually write their own articles?

I know Vincent Browne use to ghostwrite for Johnny Giles and the former Irish It-girl with the big smile who left for LA also happened to have a sister who was a journo who ghostwrote for her.

kevin99

Browne wrote a few interviews with Giles for the Sunday Indo in the 70s.
But James Lawton, Daily Express soccer reporter, has been ghosting Giles' Herald columns for the past 20 years.
You can be sure that a journalist at the Herald or a PR person is writing columns for the Herald columnists.
I don't read that paper anymore as I don't consider it a 'news' paper.
It has become a lifestyle magazine with a dwindling circulation. It was 60,000 up to recently.
I mean who is interested in what Colette Fitzpatrick thinks about the world. who is she? Or Terry Prone and her son, Anton Savage, who is he?
And now they have Gerry Ryan's daughter Lottie appointed as their entertainment reporter.
I'd love to know where she did her journalism training and how long she spent training. And what college did she study journalism?
If you are wondering how I know who their columnists are, I admit to glancing through the paper at Dublin airport last Friday evening as I awaited a flight. The Headline on the lead story was all about the wedding of the English royal couple. Our Happiest Day!.
I laughed because as far as I recall the Herald is an Irish newspaper.
It is heading the way of its late sister paper, the Sunday Tribune.

Corsendonk

kevin99 wrote: »

Browne wrote a few interviews with Giles for the Sunday Indo in the 70s.
But James Lawton, Daily Express soccer reporter, has being ghosting Giles' Herald columns for the past 20 years.
You can be sure that a journalist at the Herald or a PR person is writing columns for the Herald columnists.
I don't read that paper anymore as I don't consider it a 'news' paper.
It has become a lifestyle magazine with a dwindling circulation. It was 60,000 up to recently.
I mean who is interested in what Colette Fitzpatrick thinks about the world. who is she? Or Terry Prone and her son, Anton Savage, who is he?
And now they have Gerry Ryan's daughter Lottie appointed as their entertainment reporter.
I'd love to know where she did her journalism training and how long she spent training. And what college did she study journalism?
If you are wondering how I know who their columnists are, I admit to glancing through the paper at Dublin airport last Friday evening as I awaited a flight. The Headline on the lead story was all about the wedding of the English royal couple. Our Happiest Day!.
I laughed because as far as I recall the Herald is an Irish newspaper.
It is heading the way of its late sister paper, the Sunday Tribune.

Thanks for the info on Johnny Giles. Some of the writings of the retired celeb exGarda Herald columnist is a little creepy/pervy at times. I imagine they hired him as a crime expert but he seems to like chatting about what a fine looking girl Georgia Salpa is and how she is single. Come on the guy is in his 70s! They should rename the column Life on Mars.

P.S How do you know they all write for the Herald since you don't read it?

kevin99

Corsendonk wrote: »

Thanks for the info on Johnny Giles. Some of the writings of the retired celeb exGarda Herald columnist is a little creepy/pervy at times. I imagine they hired him as a crime expert but he seems to like chatting about what a fine looking girl Georgia Salpa is and how she is single. Come on the guy is in his 70s! They should rename the column Life on Mars.

P.S How do you know they all write for the Herald since you don't read it?

As I said in my earlier reply I read a copy at Dublin Airport last Friday.

baalthor

Remember the time Jack Charlton couldn't remember the name of the newspaper he was 'writing' for?

(It was the Press btw, can't remember if it was Irish or Sunday)