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

Has anyone had a reply from Chris Evans or Graham Norton on Twitter yet ?

This is extraordinary stuff from an adult, let alone somebody who tries to pass themselves off as an intellectual or entertainer.

“We all order the chicken and chips in a basket!”

Christ almighty, the exclamation mark and everything. Like something an 8 year old would write. Just shy of “mummy said if we finished it all we could get jelly and ice cream after, yay! yum yum!”

How did this man even get half as far as he did, nepotism accounted for its still a mystery. Someone should have a word with him and advise him that maybe he’d be better off taking the few quid he has and sailing off into the sunset. Embarrassing.

When you can see the PR at work then it’s bad PR. This stuff is so bad it’s comical (no offence to anyone involved in it) 😂

I would love to see that. Usually all the folk on the sofa are having a bit of craic and telling funny stories, Tubs would really bring the mood down.

Don't think anyone would want to hear his ramblings about ireland, books and being kind.

This is new territory for Tubridy and NKM. Dealing with RTE was the equivalent of taking candy from a baby. Tubridy was given a series of almost bombproof TV and radio shows and was paid extremely well for that. We now know that there are shows on RTE TV and radio that manage just fine without their big name presenters (I include Marian Finucane's weekend show in that). Tubridy's new job in London looks like it's going to reveal a series of uncomfortable truths. The main one may be that he's not half as popular in Ireland as he/NK/RTE thought he was. The other more worrying one, from his point of view, is that he's showing us all how limited he is as a broadcaster. Defending him on a boards forum or having him write articles in the Daily Mail aren't going to shield him from poor Rajar ratings when the time comes. It makes me wonder is there anybody at all in Tubridy's life (personal or professional) who's doing anything to try and change the way he's presenting that radio show? Even though it's increasingly looking like this is a short-term project for him, he is doing his career prospects a lot of damage.

It might also be that fame, especially in Ireland, has a kind of half-life and the more that someone like Tubridy is out of the public's eye, the faster the public forgets about him. He had the LLS until last March and the radio show. Of these, the LLS was the most important. Without any more television appearances (apart from the Oireachtas committees), he dropped back to radio level prominence. His show was still a on a national broadcaster. He was dumped from that too.

He was off radio for about six months and has been off TV for almost a year. There's been no appearance on any TV programme in Ireland to explain what happened. There's been no appearance on any UK TV programme. At best, he's on local radio in Ireland and has a weekly column in a small Sunday newspaper. He was lucky to get the Virgin Radio gig but the longer he stays in the UK, the more that the Irish TV audiences will forget about him.

Regards...jmcc

And so are the remaining RTE management. :) They've already saved about 100K on his move to the UK.

Regards...jmcc

Well it was telling that just a few weeks ago on the LLS Kielty introduced fellow chat show host and Virgin Radio presenter Graham Norton.

Tubridy had just started at Virgin and was not even hinted at during the entire interview.

Would that not be "an upturned Tuttle"??