The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

Love the best matey bits about chris Evans

They'll be like this in 6 months

If he had been asked this time last year about working in London, he'd have said he's more than happy where he is, coining it for 500k in rte, a job where he doesn't have to work too hard.

And why would he want to move to London. He'd have said he is a home bird and that the UK is a basket case since Brexit, and not a patch on good old Ireland.

Exactly. He now has to live in a flat in London to find work, going to Argos for lamps. All coming up Milhouse.

Yeah. It's not the burn for ordinary individuals. But Ryan shouldn't have to schlum it around like a nobody, at the bottom of the ladder, unable to find work in your own country, like the previous Late Late host. It audibale in how he talks about his situation.

I hope it doesn't go all Henry Sellars on air.

Listened to a bit of Anton Savage this morning aka "the man who should have gotten the LLS after Pat Kenny if RTE wasn't a complete jokeshop"

His contributors included Gina London and Fergus Finlay. Fergus was incredulous at the total dreck that Tub's had just shat out for his first column in the MoS. Thought the standard of writing was just abysmal. He did of course, soften the blow by saying Tubs was an accomplished broadcaster and writing wasn't his bag anyway. Yeah, sure Fergus!

Gina London believed the tall tale about sliding door moments in London with Chris Evans was a complete work of fiction. Which is more believable? That NK has been working around the clock to get someone, anyone to take on Tubs at a level that appears, on the surface at least, to be a step up from RTE. In order to get this deal he promised Virgin sponsorships that would cover Tub's wage on week 1.

Or.............Chris Evans saw that Tubs was in a artisan bookshop / café in Mayfair and got on the blower to offer him the 10am daily slot on Virgin.......!

What new partner? If you're referring to the rose, he's been going out with her for ages.

I wouldn't criticise the style so much. It's the Daily Mail house style. If Sebastian Barry himself wrote a piece for the Mail, they would edit it so that it read like a homework assignment from an 8-year-old.

However, I found this weird: "I hadn’t heard from Chris for a long time but when he heard I was in London, he invited me for coffee after his show. I sat in the cab wondering what it was all about." Really? If someone I was friendly with invited me for coffee because I had moved to London, I would be looking forward to catching up - not wondering 'what it was all about'. Made me wonder if he's always so transactional.  

Don't want to get too personal but does his GF work in London?

Having someone else read bukes for you, then give you a synopsis and interview questions is standard practice. Most other broadcasters just don't pretend they've read them from cover to cover.

^ You know in Father Ted, when Ted calls out the shenanigans behind the ,'Chris the Sheep' scandal and you hear a voice off in the background going "**** Hell!!"

Well I just heard that voice when I read the above post.

Gina London is another one who I can't understand why she has a column or an audience. Her column is generic PR waffle that could be AI generated. Until you said she was actually on a programme I have assumed she is a made up persona.