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

https://extra.ie/2024/11/17/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-my-first-year-in-london

Anybody catch this gem from a few weeks back? I'm reading it and laughing my head off. He's consistent in his awfulness, I'll give him that. The "cavalcade" of Irish talent - Paul Mescal, Saoirse Ronan and…Victoria Smurfitt? WTF? Poor Paul Mescal trying to do the rounds of UK radio to promote his film and they stick him with Tubridy :)

What's amazing to me too these days is that there is no parody/satire anywhere to be found on Irish TV/radio. I mean real acidic satire attacking the likes of Tubridy/RTE/politicians. You probably wouldn't get near a legit media outlet with it though because they all corrupt or would have such thin skins even though they all profess to love the "craic". Have a running gag of calling Dee Forbes every episode and her still "unwell" even though she is out shopping/skiing/etc. Have Tubridy walking around London taking Insta videos to show how great his life in London is but he keeps getting interrupted by an Irish passerby shouting "when are you giving that 150k back, ya c..t?"

Gen, I'll fix your last line

"

CONN by Tubridy - only available in Easons and Dealz NATIONWIDE "

Not radio related but Tubbs really is tone deaf to his audience and those side gigs. It would be better off if he did some charity work to repair the damage but interviewing Eoghan Murphy who launched his book at the Irish embassy in London was a mis-step.

It was great to see Ambassador Martin Fraser and his wife Deirdre. In the year I’ve been in London, they have definitely been two of the most impressive and decent people I have had the pleasure of working with.

https://extra.ie/2024/12/08/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-christmas-tradition

Amazing coincidence how he's just becoming so friendly with all these FG politicians. Trying to suck up to Simon Harris and ingratiate himself with the Ambassador. Does he think that this is going to go down well with people? He probably thinks that he's great and so smart by doing this, and maybe, he doesn't even realise how transparent his behaviour is.

Any indication he will pay back the 150K of taxpayer money he took for work he didn't do and promised to pay back?

he’d rather have the 300 grand and keep the 150 grand I’d think 🤔

…..and we’d like to thank Tower Records for this deliciously beautiful and gorgeous piece of recorded music on vinyl. Other copies of this fine work are available to you - the great unwashed - for just €29.99 in-store or online at towerrecords.ie

Sadly, as a veritable black and white photo living in a digital world, I have nothing to play this vinyl thingy on - not even in the fictitious state of the art podcast studio. Perhaps if anyone at Sony Ireland - or closer to home, Cloney Audio - are reading this and they decide to fix that problem, I would be sure to mention their wares in next week’s name-dropping column.

Ryan moved to London to begin anew with a prime-time position on Virgin Radio, where he has attracted 0.2 percent of listeners from the UK population of just over 67 million.

https://evoke.ie/2024/12/09/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-partner-clare

Hopefully RTE will be able to prise him back.

He was never going to achieve much with Virgin, it's a minnow and seems little more than a vanity project for Chris Evans (and a way to ensure he has a job for life.)

I'd love to think this will end RTÉ's "But we have to pay them lots of money, otherwise they'll get snapped up by the BBC" logic when it comes to paying its "talent", but I suspect that won't happen.

Former Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy said he is now getting a few “knocks on the door” for different gigs, as the broadcaster reflected on a year in London.

‘What I wanted to do was turn down the volume of being recognised, cause when you present the Late Late Show, regardless of who you are, and this is not an arrogant thing to say, but it just happens to be the case, but people recognise you wherever you go. And I enjoyed that tremendously, meeting people and selfies…but I just felt I was hitting 50 and I would love to be able to be gone from the show. I got it into my head, before I’m 50, and it was three days before my 50th birthday,” he said.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/im-starting-to-get-a-few-knocks-on-the-door-about-different-gigs-ryan-tubridy-reflects-on-rte-departure-and-loneliness-in-london/a454182838.html

Almost two years on from the announcement and he still can't admit that he was sacked from the LLS. Seems like he's playing a game with everything that he says. A completely untrustworthy individual.

“I don’t suffer fools as much as I probably would have.

Unfortunately listeners to RTE had no choice but to suffer him and his inflated ego and salary for years.

Q breakfast could be purgatory part deux.

There was an interview with Oliver Callan in the Indo or Sindo over the last few days and it was quite refreshing to read it from a number of perspectives. He talks about the time slot being so established you’re inheriting your audience from Morning Ireland and your job is essentially just to not f it up……..rather different from the narrative we get elsewhere about it’s the star name superstar talent that brings the audience in. As has been pointed out here more than once though, he’s actually grown the audience over Tubridy’s numbers. There’s a humility and sincerity to Callan that Tubridy lacks, and it comes across so clearly in this article.

I linked it in the Callan thread but it should be easy to find. If someone hasn’t posted it by tonight I’ll dig it out. Worth a read.

I’m actually in the Middle East at the moment and tbh the days are all blurring into one another as it’s been rather full on - but that’s another story and I won’t do a Tubridy on it and tell you all the events and concerts I’ve been at and who I met in the last 9 days……..but feel free to PM me if you want the details! 🤣