Ryan Tubridy to step down from Late Late role when season ends

TinaTiernan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120682182#Comment_120682182

The contestants were picked based on diversity.

Hyperbollix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120681002#Comment_120681002

100% Tbh, I put it down to a simple equation. Hard upbringing = interesting characters.

What I mean is, if you cast your mind back to the chatshows of yesteryear, whether they be Irish or British, the guests often had lived a life before they achieved fame and fortune. When I think of old Parkinson interviews, many of the stars had actually fought in WW2 or at the very least been stationed somewhere in a uniform. I recently saw a 20 year old Parkinson interview with Micheal Caine. He had actually served in the Korean War and talked about doing night patrols in a no mans land between the Brits and the Chinese and feared imminent death all the time. After an experience like that, the frippery of Hollywood and all its associated bullshít is never going to seem that important.

Obviously no one today can bring similar stories to the table and we can't complain about that. But celebrities now are mainly cosseted creatures that in many cases went from a safe, easy life to a very safe and very easy life of money and fame. This combined with the PC and PR crazed world we live in where no one can speak their mind openly for fear of some pile on leading to cancellation, means the modern entertainment industry is just wall to wall beige bores who wouldn't have got a look in 40 or 50 years ago. You see this trend in everything. Its just a consequence of the fact that over the last 60/70 years, the western world has enjoyed peace and prosperity and the tide has raised most boats. It's great, but it makes for very uninteresting chat show guests!

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120638185#Comment_120638185

The afternoon show host both have to travel to Cork. One from Dublin the other from Galway.

Welsh Megaman

I always felt LLS interviews should be like this…

https://youtu.be/VM1H1d4wFyM

lumphammer2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120686127#Comment_120686127

This is all true ... today's world in countries like this is overall comparatively good ... compared to the rest of the world ... but poor chat shows with bad guests seems to be a result of this .... surely there can be a balance of speaking one's mind without it turning into racism or other hatred? ... surely there can be some balance?? ... surely all them reality TV things could end and be replaced with better material .... surely the world of music could break out of its current bland vicious circle of boybands, modern country music, so-called songsmiths, etc. and instead revive the music industry of old?? ... surely there is more to comedy than people talking about sex and body parts and imitating famous people?? ...

Michael Caine and others from that era had more talent and were more interesting .... they were real and their experiences were real .... today people are famous for being famous or being married to someone famous .... the Meghan Markle factor .... Meghan Markle is a version of a person who grew up in a cosy setting and then flopped as an actor because she is a drama queen/prima donna ... she then marries a famous person ... Prince Harry ... to gain the fame she could not gain on her own .... as all she can say is how 'done down' she was .... there are plenty other Meghans around many here who ended up on Tubridy's couch ....

squonk

Unfortunately these days some people are actively on the lookout for something to offend them so they can tell everybody else via social media how offended they are. That’s why you can’t have actual opinions anymore that deviate from a ‘right view’ that has also developed from social media and people wanting to virtue signal. So no Oliver Reeds anymore. His career wouldn’t survive in today’s climate. Not that I’m saying things shouldn’t have evolved since then. It’s good we’re addressing sexism and issues like that but varieties of opinions and different approaches to living a life or having a career outside the norm can be entertaining. When everyone signs up to group think and group behaviour and are frightened to deviate them you end up with a conveyor belt of blandness.

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120689825#Comment_120689825

So pretty.

Gadgetman496

RTE paid Ryan Tubridy over €300,000 more than it declared to the public

In a statement issued today, the national broadcaster said that the former Late Late Show host received €345,000 more in payments than what was declared publicly between 2017 and 2022

RTE's full statement

Tow

Discovered in March, when Tubs announced his departure from the LL.

Gadgetman496

A nice bit of under-the-counter money for sure.

squonk

To be fair to Tubbs it sounds like RTE fûcked up here. He was payed 75,000 by a sponsor one year but RTE guaranteed the contract over several years. Can’t really blame anyone for taking money they are contractually given. It does make it look very bad the next time they come cap in hand looking for money and bleating about the license fee.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750193#Comment_120750193

If he was whiter than white he should have issued statements each time RTE publically reported his fees and said they were incorrect, he didn't have to say how much he was getting but should have said the statements were factually incorrect.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750193#Comment_120750193

At the end of the day it was a tactic by both RTE and Tubridy to get around publishing his full pay details. What are the chances that if the commercial entity had not reneged on the agreement that we would never have heard about it.

Is there similar agreement's for other so called star's. Looking at the details from the Independent the fee seemed to be to avoid his pay rising when other star's pays was being reduced. As well the 75k was for so called personnel appearances however RTE were then crediting the Commercial entities RTE advertising account with a credit note for I presume the full or a lot of the 75k.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ryan-tubridy-i-cant-shed-any-light-on-how-rte-paid-me-extra-345000/a657042070.html

Obviously the Commercial entity got cold feet over the arrangement. The question is who first suggested the arrangements, someone in RTE..... Tubridy......it's unlikely to have been the commercial entity.

It dose not smell good. Actually it stinks to high heaven. RTE are very free with salary payments none of these so called star's would earn this money anywhere in Ireland with out seriously longer hours.

Pat Kenny put in a three hour stint in the morning on Newstalk radio, he might be on a comparable salary to some in RTE but he is the only one.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750350#Comment_120750350

Stinks to high heaven Bass, you are correct there.

Now the question is does the Govt have the cahunas to forensically deep dive into these salaries and finally shine a light into the seemingly convoluted and murky ‘arrangements’ these so called ‘stars’ enjoy.

John Q Taxpayer expects nothing else……..

jippo nolan

Tubs missing tomorrow!

Brendan Bendar

No eating 99s on the prom in Salthill it would appear……

Usual reaction from RTE… go underground.

Remember Birthdaygate……spokesman not produced for over a week.and incident occurred on their own premises!!!

JQT being butt reamed here.

nullzero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750056#Comment_120750056

Manchester City tactics.

JP Liz V1

Naughty Naughty RTE and Tubs DLB

squonk

Having thought about it some more and read more it’s definitely clear there was a committed effort in both sides to skirt published salary info and mislead the public wrt his salary. He definitely wasn’t one of those taking a pay cut. Let’s contextualise this as well. RTE made staff redundant during this period. 75,000 might have saved one if those people from the file queue. I actually don’t mind what spat zKenny gets paid. He’s working for a private entity so whatever he’s getting, good luck to him. Let’s also look at that 75,000. How much if that is taxpayer funded? Many people broke their arses for that money but just let’s give the lads who has loads already that bit more and we can Shaw play the poor mouth at the next government committee on licence fees. Cap these fees and cap them properly. If you’re getting €200,000 you’re earning a god living. Don’t like that then you’re free to go somewhere else. The void left after Tubbs left TLLS illustrates just how valueless the Rte stable is. Cut them all back. I can’t see Newstalk or anyone else having a field day poaching many of them.

Arghus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120750877#Comment_120750877

The commercial partner stuff is only part of it. There's also the other years between 2017-2019 where he was also paid far, far more than what his stated salary was. There's been no reason given for this.

Bass Reeves

There is other issues here. A number of weeks ago there was a serious attempt to remove a member of the RTE boards members of the boards. They complained that a member was leaking information to the media.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/two-rte-board-members-say-colleague-who-leaked-detail-of-new-director-general-appointment-should-consider-their-position/a1781559552.html

This has to be taken into consideration with regard to the appointment of David Bakhurst as the new DG ( as an aside we now learn that Dee Forbes is on annual leave until the end of her tenure) the internal chosen candidate as opposed to David McRedmond an outsider.

The same went on in An Gardai for decades with internal candidates always chosen as Commissioners which prevented serious reform.

Issuess that need clarification did Dee Forbes know of Tubridy's pay deal. Is there any other ''Star's' with special pay deals. Were any of them from the news current affairs sector. Was Kevin Bakhurst as head of Current affairs or a deputy DG aware of these pay deals

His appointment was pushed through by a higher echelon in RTE. Maybe we can see why now.

Brendan Bendar

Heard Brian Stanley on MI this morning, seems the kind of guy who could get to the bottom of this, based on his interview.

Lets hope he follows through on this debacle.

scrubs33

Has anyone contacted Rhys Ifans for a comment on yesterday’s developments given he coined the DLB moniker?

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120752568#Comment_120752568

Well I would have no confidence in the chairperson of the RTE board getting to the bottom of it. Very poor performance in the staged interview on SixOne last night. Sounded completely out of her depth.

She seems to be a professional female chairpersons of state boards/ funded bodies. Before this gig she was CP of TnaG, previous to that CP Ardmore studios and Tyrone productions. She was also involved in Troy Studios which is on the old Dell site in Limerick. She is an example of the Peter's Principal.

She had this on her desk since last March and has F@@k all information about it. Grant Thornton were bought in ( I expect at considerable expense) to audit the situation.

If this was a commercial company, the DG, deputy DG, CFO and heads of departments would have been asked to who is paid what and what side deals are in place. The top ten earners would have been asked in and asked if they were paid similarly.

Of anybody lied to the boards they would be sacked down the line. Talk about a stuttering performance

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120752717#Comment_120752717

Have to agree with you there Bass, wasn’t as aware of her background as you listed there.

Few XRTE heavy hitters floating around in your list.

A lot of ‘circling the wagons ‘ to come I would suggest.

Hyperbollix

First Tubs announces his sudden need to spend more time with the family and now he's mired in a shady top up salary scandal. Fantastic, couldn't be happier for him.

This is the real Ryan Tubridy that so many don't seem to recognize. He's not some "pull on the green jersey" during covid type or a twinkly Toy Show Willy Wonka. He's the guy who ditched Twitter under a pretence of "mean people online make me sad" when in reality he doesn't give a fúck about the Irish public who pay his salary and he doesn't want to hear their bleetings either. Shutup and pay me. The guy who does a good holier than thou act but glady takes 75k annual top ups from the RTE coffers while staff on normal salaries, with lives to live and kids to feed get made redundant.

You could smell the rotten crony culture off RTE from the other side of the country. This needs an inquiry and people need to be held accountable. Same as the Gards, an outsider needs to come in to run it.

Gadgetman496

Dee Forbes suspended

reflekting

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753544#Comment_120753544

Beautiful. Hopefully this finishes Tubridy's career working for the public broadcaster. Let him find some commercial gigs and see how much the free market thinks he is ultimately worth.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753544#Comment_120753544

So the Boards know about this since March. Now that the flack is more serious than they taught they suspend DF as her tenure as DG ends.

If it smells like Sh!t, tastes like ...... It definitely....

Gadgetman496

She was suspended last Wednesday apparently.

RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes was suspended from her employment by the RTÉ Board on Wednesday.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0623/1390784-rte/