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

He tries to leave but we keep sucking him back in.

and yet here you are - wasting your life away

He's just one of the same few people saying the same few things over and over

Well, when he pimps out his life to the likes of the Daily Mail, Extra.ie, RSVP.ie etc, what does he expect.

It's all low brow stuff now. Tacky celeb stuff.

He seems like a fish out of water in London. In Dublin he might be considered a celebrity for his career with RTE but London and the UK has its own celebrities. Don't think that the UK edition of the Mail on Sunday carries his column so apart from the stint on Virgin Radio, he's unknown. Even that social diarist niche is highly competitive there.

Regards…jmcc

There's always the human element to consider. It might make a good Robert Harris novel if it wasn't like a real-life version of Alan Partridge. He certainly was overpaid and undertalented.

Regards…jmcc

Exactly. Tubridy's RTE career and the Leinster House bikeshed fiasco are one in the same phenomenon. Public sector extravagance, pisspoor performance, zero accountability and a culture of waste, waste, waste.

People go on about the €150k - It's the €750k that this egit was earning in the middle of the crash that should never be forgotten.

RE: Pat Stacey in the Indo, bang on. The Late Late Show will probably never be essential viewing as it was in years gone by, which is the same for almost all TV nowadays, but at least under Kielty there is an energy to it and when they do manage to land an interesting guest from time to time, you can be sure the interview will be worth watching. The contrast with the Tubs era is night and day. If Ireland had regional tv stations which covered parish pump issues with a good dose of cancer chat and death notices, the Tubridy Late Late wouldn't have been out of place on one of those. Somehow, it was broadcast to the nation on a weekly basis from Dublin.

Closer to Junior Cert English

Probably won't be able to do that kind of thing on Virgin Radio. It isn't RTE.

Regards…jmcc

Think that he had a larger production team in RTE. Doesn't appear to have quite the same sized team in Virgin Radio.

Regards…jmcc

The general consensus is that he is not a good presenter. A lot of younger presenters go through some kind of training and there is a often difference in quality between them and Tubridy. When he was with RTE, he could get away with that kind of performance because the management had invested so much in promoting him. Virgin Radio and Q102 don't seem to have the budgets for that.

Regards…jmcc

with Jermaine Jenas getting sacked by the BBC from the One Show, you’d have thought Tubridy’s agent could have got him that gig!

You would think he's tailor made for that kind of early evening, inoffensive magazine programme but if they somehow made the mammoth mistake of sticking him on it, I'd give him a week tops before he'd get the boot!

I can just hear all the middle class mums and grans across Britain absolutely perplexed by this babbling, guffawing eegit banging on about Ireland, Barry's tea and his friendship with assorted dead Irish celebrities… 😂

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