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

RTE may have learned from how the Tubridy payments scandal was handled. The five week thing seems odd but if they are going for a kind of try-out on the programme then they may go through a number of presenters to see which one plays best. RTE Radio 1 did something similar with the 09:00 slot when it had to replace Tubridy.

Regards…jmcc

sounds like Lottie has problems counting to 5

Of course he's going to Taylor Swift. If opening crisp packets became unmissable mass appeal moments, he would be photographed with bags of Tayto on the daily….

I really hope Tubs makes an appearance on stage at Russell Crowe's musical interlude in July, a bit like James Corden singing live with Cold Play. He could even belt out 'Nothing compares to you' - It's a little known fact that he was a great friend of Sinead O' Connor's of course.

I can imagine him now Shane Ross like, dodging and weaving himself into any and every photo being taken of an actual celebrity at the gig….

but the best part would be if/when any of those photo's were published.. they'd be captioned "Gordon Ramsey & 'an enthusiastic fan'" at the Taylor Swift gig or

despite the fact he’s a washed up has been surviving on bread and water in some dodgy sink estate in South London (as some would have us believe here) he still seems to carry enough clout with Irish music promoters that he’s getting a freebie to the biggest gig of the Summer.

Maybe, just maybe Ryan is doing fine for himself.

"The one and only Vogue Williams"…thank goodness there's only one.

I have only ever seen Tubs's defenders going on about pot noodles and sink estates. Funny that…

I know several radio/tv presenters who are guests of MCD this weekend.

She's married to reality show alumnus Spencer Matthews so she's fairly well known in the UK. She definitely has a higher profile there than Tubs did when he went over.

I wonder if Virgin might be treating this as a possible audition to replace Tubs?

She won a Bear Grylls celebrity reality show on ITV. Was a few years ago now but she has way more credits / profile building events in the media than Tubs.

It is also the end of Q2 2024 in a few days. It would be an interesting switch if Vogue Williams completely replaces Tubridy at Virgin Radio. She does have a UK media profile whereas Tubridy had none.

Regards…jmcc

With Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny and Patrick Kielty, the LLS was and is about the guests. The Tubridy LLS seemed to be more about Tubridy than the guests.

There was an incident where Gay Byrne rang a woman who had just won the LLS contest prize and it turned out that her daughter had sent in the entry and she had died a few days before. Gay Byrne handled it with tact, grace and empathy. There was a massive difference in talent between Gay Byrne and Tubridy.

Regards…jmcc

yeah it's on youtube. Well handled by Gay Byrne and Tubridy would have made a monkey's arse out of it no doubt, but I feel like I've heard about how great Byrne handled it one too many times, equally valid would have been to say "I'm desperately sorry for your loss, this sort of thing shouldn't ever happen, everyone here wishes you and your family the best" and leave it at that instead of engaging her when there was no guarantee she would want that. A lot of people are very private you know.

I liked Gay Byrne, but he was only alright and nothing incredibly special as he's been made out, there are rumours of him having had a bad side also. There's a story that one of his neighbours invited him to a housewarming party and as a response he sent them back an invoice for his appearance!