Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

A tic embedded in the animals fur.

Yes, that was my original point - any word to suggest integration into UK life is wrong anyway, but the use of "embedded" is just so odd.

Wogan, Gay Byrne, Parkinson, Eamon Andrews were all professionals with a keen interest in producing the best work possible. Tubs doesn't belong in the same conversation. Very little ability, no interest in research or preparation and happy to dish up radio and televisual pig slop. He was just lucky he was in an organisation that was itself so inept, it routinely rewarded him with rolling big money contracts.

Not sure what he would be returning to though, not that I know much about the entertainment industry but I'd imagine he would have better opportunities across the pond.

The days of getting 500k a year in little old Ireland are well and truly over for the bould Ryan.

That plus he's already done everything a broadcaster of his type can do in Ireland; I'm convinced if he got a serious offer from the BBC or another British broadcaster that fits his profile better than Virgin he'd jump at that…

Some would have you believe he’s on £300k for the radio show, another €100k from WillowWarm, and another €10k per month in ad revenue from the podcast…..which gets a couple of thousand views per episode……..

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Could totally see Tubs coming back to RTE settling in as the elder statesman. A nice once a week number. A “book” radio show on Radio 1. He’d take their arm off for it.

I said it when he went to Virgin. He had more than enough shots with the BBC. They weren’t mad to get the red hot RTE free agent when he was available post scandal.

Possible but I find it hard to see this happening on Bakhurst's watch, after all that's gone down between them…

Wogan, Gay Byrne, Parkinson, Eamon Andrews were all professionals with a keen interest in producing the best work possible. Tubs doesn't belong in the same conversation. Very little ability, no interest in research or preparation 

Is it really about the highlighted though? How much 'research & preparation' do you think Wogan did before hosting a Eurovision? The bits of Tubridy I did catch over the years I never got the impression he hasn't done his homework before an interview, sticking too rigidly to pre-prepped questions if anything…

That sort of light entertainment broadcasting is really about natural flair: most would say the other guys you mention had it in greater quantities than RT but it's ultimately a matter of taste…

You don’t actually think he was writing the cue cards he relied so heavily on now do you? That’s the job of the researchers, not his majesty.

Same for his RTÉ radio show - he used to do a review of the papers to start the show. More than once he admitted that the team had post-it notes placed on the pages for him to read, but of course he still frequently managed to make a complete balls of that by clearly not having read those few columns before he went on air and then adopting the wrong tone to introduce said column. Zero prep - ever.

When he mentioned himself, Russell Crowe and a piano, back at his house, I had visions of the scene in Extras with David Bowie 😁

Ryan: "Russell, I'm an entertainer too!"

Russell: "Oh, yeah what do you do?"

Ryan: "Chat show. The Late Late Show…."

Russell: "Is it any good?"

Man in background: "NO, IT'S SHíT!"

Ryan: "Awww, riff-raff, everywhere…. It get's half a million viewers. It's…….it's not exactly how I meant it to be….. RTE have interfered, chased ratings…….. made it lowest common denominator….. cancer, misery porn, country music specials…. I think I've sold out to be honest…..

Russell: "Yeah………………….(singing) Little stickman who sold his soul"

Ryan: "Sorry, the little…?"

Russell: "Little stickman who sold his dream"

Ryan: …

Russell: "Dainty little bugger"