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Radio people using their fake radio name in formal settings

  • 02-03-2022 10:23am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭


    I was surprised to hear that radio veteran and ex pd of Today FM "Tom Hardy" is actually really named Brian Johnson because he appeared at Oireachtas committees back in the 00s under the name Tom Hardy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,148 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I would expect anyone with a media pseudonym to use it all situations relating to media. His appearances at Oireachtas committees would have been in relation to radio.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,503 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    There are plenty of examples of that situation over the years. I have to say, though, that I am surprised to hear that Tom Hardy was not his real name.

    I suppose it is becoming a less frequent phenomenon as the main reason that people adopted fake radio names in the first instance was that they used them in pirate radio. Most of the younger radio presenters and the journalists turned broadcasters did not come through that route.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Hollywood stars were given better sounding names

    Wonder is there much of that now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,785 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Tom Hardy is reported to be ill at the moment



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