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Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

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    #1982
    Radio5
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    Don't tend to watch Sky News that much at all so haven't seen her since UTV folded.


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    #1983
    ButtersSuki
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    working for Sky News now

    I'm not sure she is anymore tbh. She's on twitter promoting some local Drogheda Newspaper so I can't imagien she's on Sky News whilst also doing that............


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    #1984
    ohnonotgmail
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    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    I'm not sure she is anymore tbh. She's on twitter promoting some local Drogheda Newspaper so I can't imagien she's on Sky News whilst also doing that............

    she lives in drogheda


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    #1985
    ButtersSuki
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    she lives in drogheda

    Yes, I know that, but it seemed like she was writing for them and it was a regular thing.


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    #1986
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Seems like anytime Irish media covers Jonathan Rhys Meyers (every few years) makes his way into Irish media, it's cos he's mucked up again. Plonker.

    https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/6132071/jonathan-rhys-meyers-drink-driving-malibu/


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    #1987
    skooterblue2
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Seems like anytime Irish media covers Jonathan Rhys Meyers (every few years) makes his way into Irish media, it's cos he's mucked up again. Plonker.

    https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/6132071/jonathan-rhys-meyers-drink-driving-malibu/

    hmmmm a very difficult actor to work with. Like all these high octane actors (Gabriel Byrne, Winona Ryder, Oliver Reed or Robert Downey Junior), you take extreme risks employing their talent. I am sure Jonathan Rhys Meyers could have been a contender for Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. He had done some great work in the Tudors, so I have been told. I believe he comes from a very peculiar childhood and troubled youth. I think the poor guy is a soft target for the media even if his personality is borderline a$$hole on sociopath.


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    #1988
    RabbleRouser2k
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    hmmmm a very difficult actor to work with. Like all these high octane actors (Gabriel Byrne, Winona Ryder, Oliver Reed or Robert Downey Junior), you take extreme risks employing their talent. I am sure Jonathan Rhys Meyers could have been a contender for Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. He had done some great work in the Tudors, so I have been told. I believe he comes from a very peculiar childhood and troubled youth. I think the poor guy is a soft target for the media even if his personality is borderline a$$hole on sociopath.

    He was kind of making headway (despite a lack of talent)... but his drinking, and his denial of his issues clearly mucked him up.

    I saw him doing an interview with Larry King, which was only 2 years ago...and he's putting on an accent that I sat there like 'where the hell is your Irish accent gone?'


    For example, an interview he did with Pat Kenny in 2005.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITAJ1MhnI98

    Accent is clearly heard, even if he's clearly had elocution lessons. And it's understandable, because he was starring the Tudors around the time.

    In comparison, interview with Larry King in 2018.



    That's a plonker pretending to be a Shakespearian auteur.

    His wife is producing his films... his next movie is where he's playing second fiddle to Jonathan Cheban aka 'friend of Kim Kardashian, former star of Celebrity Big Brother'... if he keeps sinking any lower, he'll be on 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here'.


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    #1989
    the purple tin
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    The cast of Bull Island where are they now?


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    #1990
    George White
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    Certainly, he seems to be on the path of people like Stephen Boyd and patrick Bergin, who were briefly A list and then sank further and further down into grotty productions.
    All three have played Dracula.


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    #1991
    bigpink
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    hmmmm a very difficult actor to work with. Like all these high octane actors (Gabriel Byrne, Winona Ryder, Oliver Reed or Robert Downey Junior), you take extreme risks employing their talent. I am sure Jonathan Rhys Meyers could have been a contender for Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. He had done some great work in the Tudors, so I have been told. I believe he comes from a very peculiar childhood and troubled youth. I think the poor guy is a soft target for the media even if his personality is borderline a$$hole on sociopath.

    Peculiar childhood?


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    #1992
    RabbleRouser2k
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    George White wrote: »
    Certainly, he seems to be on the path of people like Stephen Boyd and patrick Bergin, who were briefly A list and then sank further and further down into grotty productions.
    All three have played Dracula.

    I've heard it on good authority that Bergin is crazy. Drinks like a fish, allegedly. (Tho there have been widely reported incidents).
    bigpink wrote: »
    Peculiar childhood?

    His mum (allegedly) had substance problems. She had him very young too, like when she was 21 or 22 (and he wasn't her first kid). No dad was ever mentioned, he pretty much left the family when O'Keefe was three. But yeah, apparently had a rough childhood, being poor for much of his life.

    He got expelled when he was 15 or 16, got taken in by some guy who owned a farm... and then years later, we found out the guy who took him in was a child abuser. (While Meyer's has said he was never molested or abused by the guy... I question if Meyer's is denying something else).

    His mother died in 2007, and Meyers apparently tried to overdose in 2011.


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    #1993
    skooterblue2
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    bigpink wrote: »
    Peculiar childhood?

    I dont remember exactly but something like abandoned by his mother and "fostered" by a gentleman farmer....... just odd!!!


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    #1994
    skooterblue2
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    He got expelled when he was 15 or 16, got taken in by some guy who owned a farm... and then years later, we found out the guy who took him in was a child abuser. (While Meyer's has said he was never molested or abused by the guy... I question if Meyer's is denying something else).

    Hence why the word "peculiar" is a generous term, other people would say it was downright fupped up.

    I always thought it was funny hearing about actors or rockstars going on a bender. It wasnt until I heard why Oliver Reed lost the role of James Bond and why he lost it. A James Bond film, shoots straight 6 days a week over 12 weeks. Not counting pre-preparation, post production and special effects and cutting etc etc. You have to be stone cold sober and on game for that time. Massive money is borrowed for the film, costs are astronomical, interest is crazy. End story the film has to be a success to pay everyone and seed the next film and there are reputations at stake. Its a high risk business.

    Then you have someone who goes on a bender, has mental health problems, goes off chasing some tail of a make up artist, gets moody. Whatever, nobody needs your excuses, you need to deliver your lines, be consistent and a professional. Too much is at stake for everyone else down the line.

    By the time you have negotiated your contract, read your scripts, pre production, production, post production, publicity and then wind down your three year cycle is up and you are back reading scripts again. Nobody has time for your "issues".


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    #1995
    Hangdogroad
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    I dont remember exactly but something like abandoned by his mother and "fostered" by a gentleman farmer....... just odd!!!

    That farmer guy was subsequently jailed for something involving young lads.


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    #1996
    RabbleRouser2k
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Hence why the word "peculiar" is a generous term, other people would say it was downright fupped up.

    I always thought it was funny hearing about actors or rockstars going on a bender. It wasnt until I heard why Oliver Reed lost the role of James Bond and why he lost it. A James Bond film, shoots straight 6 days a week over 12 weeks. Not counting pre-preparation, post production and special effects and cutting etc etc. You have to be stone cold sober and on game for that time. Massive money is borrowed for the film, costs are astronomical, interest is crazy. End story the film has to be a success to pay everyone and seed the next film and there are reputations at stake. Its a high risk business.

    Then you have someone who goes on a bender, has mental health problems, goes off chasing some tail of a make up artist, gets moody. Whatever, nobody needs your excuses, you need to deliver your lines, be consistent and a professional. Too much is at stake for everyone else down the line.

    By the time you have negotiated your contract, read your scripts, pre production, production, post production, publicity and then wind down your three year cycle is up and you are back reading scripts again. Nobody has time for your "issues".

    I'm sure the Bond producers were justly proved right when they saw the craziness of The Three Musketeers shoot. (Reed didn't turn up to stunt training, pretty much treating everything like a real fight.... then one of the stuntmen missed the padding during of their swordfights, and hit Reed in the artery in his neck. Reed almost died, had to be rushed to hospital... the shot stayed in the film tho.)

    I know many actors have said there are some movies you have to take time out after making. The likes of the Bond movies, for example-you don't do a high octane movie straight afterwards. You're too drained, honestly. You do a slow movie, or a chill drama. Anything to recoup your energy and pay your bills.

    You sort of have to pick your 'times' to have your issues flare up. The Christian Bale 'flareup' on Terminator: Salvation was understandable (from an actors pov) but very rare from him. Bale usually comes down from a movie by just burning up the excess doing everything from going on an all meat diet (and he's a vegetarian or pescetarian at the best of times) or hitting the dirt bike circuit.

    The thing is.... they understand their issues. They're not in denial, not denying they have problems.
    I used to think Rhys Meyers changed his name because of Equity or SAG issues (two actors can't have the same name if registered under equity or SAG, hence why there's a William Macy and a William H. Macy. Or why the 'other' Michael Douglas goes by Michael 'Keaton').
    Turns out he changed his name on his own account. Not for any other reason.
    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    That farmer guy was subsequently jailed for something involving young lads.

    Yup, and I mentioned that... I half suspect Myers was one of his victims.


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    #1997
    skooterblue2
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    I'm sure the Bond producers were justly proved right when they saw the craziness of The Three Musketeers shoot. (Reed didn't turn up to stunt training, pretty much treating everything like a real fight.... then one of the stuntmen missed the padding during of their swordfights, and hit Reed in the artery in his neck. Reed almost died, had to be rushed to hospital... the shot stayed in the film tho.)

    I know many actors have said there are some movies you have to take time out after making.

    You sort of have to pick your 'times' to have your issues flare up. The Christian Bale 'flareup' on Terminator: Salvation was understandable (from an actors pov) but very rare from him. Bale usually comes down from a movie by just burning up the excess doing everything from going on an all meat diet (and he's a vegetarian or pescetarian at the best of times) or hitting the dirt bike circuit.

    You have to look at it from an artistic point of view, Oliver Reed, sober (a big ask by any stretch of the imagination) would have been an amazing Bond.

    You know there are crazy people out there like Jackie Chan, who does a film EVERY week. I didnt say they were great movies or smart moves and he is super saturating his own market. Same with Adam Sandler not as bad but 2 films a year is a bit much. I think if you are doing one really good film every 12 to 18 months you are working a peak performance.

    You know about James Cameron? All his actors either burn out or "I dont see us working again together in the future"? Linda Hamilton is only a shadow of her former self. Leo Dicaprio said its not on the cards to do another film. I am not saying he isnt an amazing film maker, I am just saying he is a very demanding director/producer. You put anyone under thats stress, there is no telling when or how they will flip out.

    I am glad I am not married to an Actress. Imagine poor Isla Fisher married to Sacha Baron Cohen and never knowing who she will wake up with for the next 18 months. Sacha Baron Cohen is a method actor to the extreme. Imagine you are in the shower and Borat looks you up and down "Thats nice". On the other hand you could be woken up by Freddie Mercury exercising his vocal cords. That people is the definition of love.


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    #1998
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Anyone know what happened with Gerard Barrett?

    You know the guy who made Pilgrim Hill? Was seen as a rising talent...then sort of went quiet.
    Last I heard of him was the very troubled production of Brain on Fire (aka the movie that made Chloe Grace Moretz almost quit acting). Film came out in 2016, he hasn't even spoken of it or been interviewed about it.

    Seems he was one of a couple of Irish directors who went over to Hollywood round the same time (another being Gary Shore, director of the also very troubled Dracula Untold) but who's film was underwhelming?


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    #1999
    George White
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    I wonder did Brain on Fire's production make him persona non grata in Hollywood.


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    #2000
    RabbleRouser2k
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    George White wrote: »
    I wonder did Brain on Fire's production make him persona non grata in Hollywood.

    It's interesting if it did. I imagine similar happened to Gary Shore after Dracula Untold, especially considering how that film cost 100 million dollars, but barely made back its costs.

    Brain on Fire made about 10,000 dollars (yes, thousands, not millions) with what was probably a very high budget. 10 thousand dollars wouldn't even cover Moretz's shoes budget.

    You see it all the time. Director's go from Indie films, and think that doing a high budget hollywood feature will be just the same.

    They don't take into account that everyone (from producers, to scriptwriters) want to put their name on the final feature. So you have a whole convergence of voices on a project. The director, rarely, if ever, gets final say on the film.
    Often they even get kicked out of the editing room.

    I know he sold the script for a pilot, but that was back in 2017. You'd have seen something of it since then, but there's been nada.


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    #2001
    Radio5
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    He produced Glassland but that was a while back also.


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    #2002
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Radio5 wrote: »
    He produced Glassland but that was a while back also.

    Yeah, back in 2016.


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    #2003
    Dr golden 2
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    Where are the Morbeg suits ?


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    #2004
    ShamNNspace
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    Not really a celebrity, but a politician... Joe Higgins just walked straight off the political stage. I may not have agreed with him on some points but he had his sincerely convictions and he stuck to them.. Allways wondered what he's at now


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    #2005
    RabbleRouser2k
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    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    Not really a celebrity, but a politician... Joe Higgins just walked straight off the political stage. I may not have agreed with him on some points but he had his sincerely convictions and he stuck to them.. Allways wondered what he's at now

    Still posts on social media, such as facebook and twitter.

    Seems to still be carrying on his personal fight. I had no ill will towards him either, I admired the guy, because he stuck by his guns.

    He was a damn sight more respectable than those who followed him.


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    #2006
    Dr golden 2
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    Rory Cobb


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    #2007
    Dr golden 2
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    Basher Bacon


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    #2008
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Honestly thought the last two entries were trolling..

    Then I googled em...

    Cripes, they'd really disappeared down the memory hole.


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    #2009
    ShamNNspace
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Still posts on social media, such as facebook and twitter.

    Seems to still be carrying on his personal fight. I had no ill will towards him either, I admired the guy, because he stuck by his guns.

    He was a damn sight more respectable than those who followed him.

    Wonder does he meet up with Bertie now and again to reminisce about the old days they were the only two socialists in the dail


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    #2010
    Hangdogroad
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    Brian Keenan, I know he hasnt disappeared into obscurity but in the decade following his release in 1990 he was a regular feature on the chat show circuit and for a while one of the most recognisable people on the island of Ireland, rarely see his name pop up nowadays. I'd say a lot of people under 30 might not be that familiar with him.


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    #2011
    skooterblue2
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Brian Keenan, I know he hasnt disappeared into obscurity but in the decade following his release in 1990 he was a regular feature on the chat show circuit and for a while one of the most recognisable people on the island of Ireland, rarely see his name pop up nowadays. I'd say a lot of people under 30 might not be that familiar with him.

    Wow, there is a blast from the past. Every 6 months his sister's would make a drive at the Irish government to try get him released. The Irish government would put on a show but no great momentum. There were talks of using the SAS to lift Terry Waite and Brian Keenan at the same time. He got out got married and wrote a book. I wonder why he got lifted in the first day? Not like Belfast wasn't a happening enough place?


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