the purple tin wrote: » Anna the ex-nun from BB. She was a presenter for a while and thn she vanished.
skooterblue2 wrote: » Anna Nolan? Reports say Blanaid Ni Coffaigh didnt like her, she got **** canned.
banoffe2 wrote: » Mia Dunphy the last I see of her was on Dancing with the Stars, she is reported to have split from husband Johnny Vegas ( says they never lived together) they reconciled and split up again She was also on the Late Late Show launching her book about motherhood shortly after her son was born.
the purple tin wrote: » I saw a documentary about her, she was skyping JV, he lived in england and she stayed in Ireland. Think they met about once a month or so. Strange set-up, if you were serious about a relationship somebody would move and go to live with the other person wouldn't you think.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Yeah, even Graham Linehan chimed in about that producer (The guy is also still employed at RTE, in entertainment). .
JohnFalstaff wrote: » He's not at RTE these days.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Did that 'Cian' guy (the one who pretended to be himself and his girlfriend, and would upload videos to facebook) disappear? Did people finally get sick of him?
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Anyone remember what happened to that guy Mark Mahon? If you've forgotten, he directed one of the worst Irish films to ever open in Irish cinemas, Strength and Honor. Movie starred Michael Madsen, Richard Chamberlain, Vinnie Jones and Patrick Bergin. (The lead roles are meant to be IRish, but the only Irish actor he cast was Bergin). The film has a 6% critic score on imdb. The film got absolutely panned in IReland. But Mahon was the type of guy who hyped himself up to the last-his next movie was going to be a 100 million euro film about Brian Boru, and he was saying Leonardo di Caprio was going to play Brian.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/graphic-novelist-with-a-100m-movie-on-his-mind-1.1413662 An absolute lick a**e by all accounts- put Morgan Freeman as a 'thanks' in his last (only) film. Freeman had no involvement in it. Name dropped like crazy, seemed to be his biggest fan too. Took credit for 'ghosting' on films (scriptwriting) but, of course, 'couldn't name them'.
Brock Turnpike wrote: » That's not a real movie is it!?
George White wrote: » I met him once at an IFTA thing for Neil Marshall about five years ago, and I tried to stop myself from bursting out in laughter at the sheer ridiculousness of him. He spoke in this ludicrous faux-American accent, like some country and Irish obsessive. I presumed he was an American who had been here for a while. I remember he posted on the day of Lauren Bacall's death a photo of him with a woman who he said was Bacall, but was clearly Barbara Bain from Mission Impossible and Space 1999.
RandomViewer wrote: » TV3 used to show it, got about 15 minutes of it once and I've sat through some crap movies,
1 sheep2 wrote: » I liked Craig Doyle. Loads of reasons TV shows fail and his success abroad proves he has talent. Don't know why the producer is being criticised for persevering with him. Lots of celebrated TV wouldn't have happened if a producer didn't stick to their guns when things seemed not to be working.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » You can like Doyle. But the issue with Doyle was that he's a sports person, first and foremost. It's where he started, it's where he's suited. When he got to RTE... they liked him WAY too much... so they put him into shows where he was not suited.(Similar with Grainne Seoige, but they got her on a budget-she'd fled sky News Ireland after it sank and burned'). If you're doing 10-15 minute segments, that's fine. But if you're trying to host a hour or hour and a half long show, where you have to be 'on' for much longer.. it can expose the cracks. RTe spent a LOT of money on him. They put him in Craig Doyle Live, Live Tonight with Craig Doyle, some show like 'Hanging with Hector' that I forget the name of, The Social and The Panel. He didn't connect-even his 'Hector-like show' he described as 'sh**e'. (And, as RTE secret producer noted, the people on his show messed up the 'hashtag' on the first episode of The Social)
Hangdogroad wrote: » His tenure on the Panel was the final nail in its coffin, though TBH it had been on a downward spiral for a long time.
George White wrote: » Anyone know what happened to Jonathan Rachel Clynch? Seemingly disappeared by RTE after they came out, despite promises they'd continue working there.
Hangdogroad wrote: » That Brides Of Franc fella.
Water John wrote: » . Lots of professionals eg chefs, doctors have a core business, that occasionally lends itself to TV work.
Water John wrote: » His wife and him run their business, just not on TV now. Obviously that is in limbo with Covid 19. Lots of professionals eg chefs, doctors have a core business, that occasionally lends itself to TV work.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » You have to have a personality tho-that can help. Caught Dylan McGrath (remember him?) on the 6 O'Clock show a month or two back. I'd forgotten he was a thing, he hadn't been on TV (regularly) since that Irish Masterchef years ago, and a disastrous interview with Brendan O'Connor where he was clearly out of it on medication, and started talking about his mother. (When he wasn't on something, he could be a genuine jerk). All his talk of Michelin stars, he had less personality than Marco Pierre White.
