As an Irish person, are you ashamed of Amanda Byram?

Romo · 10-02-2005 04:03PM #1

Yes, I know she's got on well, but say your sister was presenting something like "The Swan", deep down wouldn't you be ashamed?

NotMe · 10-02-2005 04:05PM

No I'm not cos I never heard of her.

DaBreno · 10-02-2005 04:07PM

She seems to be a big thing in America these days. Id be hitting her for a few bob when shes home.

Spalk0 · 10-02-2005 04:07PM

Im not sure!

Im against plastic surgery really unless its to help someone who has been scarred from an accident or something but if it helps an ugly duckling turn into a swan then can it be that bad?

You should the faces on some of those women after they get it done!

littlejay · 10-02-2005 04:08PM

in the world of showbizz nothing surprises me.
if you see her tell her little jay said shes a cracker....

dahamsta · 10-02-2005 04:12PM

Who's Amanda Byram, and what's The Swan?

arbeitsscheuer · 10-02-2005 04:13PM

God, and I thought she was English!! :rolleyes:

Thank F**k she's Irish though, one less thing that embarrasses me about being English...

Sherifu · 10-02-2005 04:13PM

dahamsta wrote:

Who's Amanda Byram, and what's The Swan?

If ya paid ur tv licence youd know.

Romo · 10-02-2005 04:14PM

NotMe wrote:

No I'm not cos I never heard of her.

She's an Irish TV presenter and the former face of Roches Stores

, used to present "Ireland AM" with fabby Mark Cagney. She presents a show on Fox and TV3, called the "The Swan". Unfortunate American women are sliced to bits by cosmetic surgery in the hope of physical perfection. The whole show is presented with a treaclely syrup type of concern for the women, that is completely false.

Dades · 10-02-2005 04:18PM

Romo wrote:

Unfortunate American women are sliced to bits by cosmetic surgery in the hope of physical perfection. The whole show is presented with a treaclely syrup type of concern for the women, that is completely false.

Good for her.

At least they're cutting up foreign women and not our womenfolk...

galactus · 10-02-2005 04:20PM

SebtheBum wrote:

God, and I thought she was English!! :rolleyes:

Well they don't call the Dubs "Jackeens" for nothing

WhiteWashMan · 10-02-2005 04:23PM

wow, someone on tv!

NotMe · 10-02-2005 04:23PM

Romo wrote:

She's an Irish TV presenter and the former face of Roches Stores , used to present "Ireland AM" with fabby Mark Cagney. She presents a show on Fox and TV3, called the "The Swan". Unfortunate American women are sliced to bits by cosmetic surgery in the hope of physical perfection. The whole show is presented with a treaclely syrup type of concern for the women, that is completely false.

Oh I saw the ads for The Swan. I thought it was Amanda Bynes.

TacT · 10-02-2005 04:24PM

No, I couldn't care less, why would you be ashamed of her?

Sleepy · 10-02-2005 04:25PM

The show is unintentionally hysterically funny!

Spunog UIE · 10-02-2005 04:26PM

can't stand her, don't give a crap about the show, but ashamed of her...#bah#

stupid show for stupid women.

seamus · 10-02-2005 04:33PM

Trigger! wrote:

Im against plastic surgery really unless its to help someone who has been scarred from an accident or something but if it helps an ugly duckling turn into a swan then can it be that bad?

I don't think it's necessarily the idea of getting the plastic surgery that's bad, but the way it's presented. I saw this ****ty program for the first time the other night, and I was actually disgusted. And it takes a bit to disgust me. Basically it was the message the show was giving out.

One poor woman, who wasn't ugly by any stretch, suffered from what was obviously low self-esteem. Acutely low in fact. There's a short film, comes back to ugly Amanda, who says to the "Panel", "Right, what do we need to do here?".
Now, forgive me for being naive, but I thought they'd along the lines of "Well, we'll get her some nice clothes, make a gym regime for her, some confidence training." Now, in fairness they did say this, but the very *first* thing they said was - Right, plastic surgery, we're going to augment her nose, breasts, chin, give her lipo here here here and here, and pretty much circling every little flaw in her body.
I'm not anti-surgery, but it should be the very *last* thing anyone should consider. The flippant way they approached it just disgusted me. Young girls will see this, empathise with this woman's poor self-esteem, and think "Surgery! That's it! They say she needs surgery, I must need surgery too!".

Yes, I'm ashamed.

Mossy Monk · 10-02-2005 04:36PM

couldnt give a **** what she does tbh

at least she is doing well

BolBill · 10-02-2005 04:37PM

Shes making a living, fair play to her !!!!

simu · 10-02-2005 05:04PM

No - it's probably good for Ireland's reputation to have a few famous, good-looking Irish women around.

That said, the Swan is a horribly exploiting show.

Tobias Greeshman · 10-02-2005 05:10PM

It is very expolited, these women are emotional wrecks before the show, something tells me that they may still be when they leave the show, no matter how good looking some surgeon makes them.

Not a big fan of amanda bryam, a bit too americanised for an irish person, but at the same time, fair play to her for getting there!

windowgazer · 10-02-2005 05:27PM

trust_no_one wrote:

It is very expolited, these women are emotional wrecks before the show, something tells me that they may still be when they leave the show, no matter how good looking some surgeon makes them.

Not a big fan of amanda bryam, a bit too americanised for an irish person, but at the same time, fair play to her for getting there!

Why do Irish people ALWAYS think any fame is good fame?
'Ah yeh, sure fairplay to her for getting the job, sure the show may exploit people with low self esteem until they're completely warped and throw them out at the end of the series with nothing to cling to but their plastic bits, ah yeh, but sure fair play'. JUst because she's got her mug on the TV in foreign shores, doesn't mean she's all that. You could look at it that no American presenter would touch the show on moral grounds (ehm....well... maybe not... but u see my point!) :mad:
In fact I think the words 'fair play' should be ommited from our vocabulary altogether.

GeorgeBailey · 10-02-2005 05:32PM

I wouldn't be too bothered about her doing the show. After all she wants to make her living, fair enough. I wouldn't even be too bothered about the Americans making the show. If that's what the American people want then let them have it.
The people that truly disgust me are the people at (I)TV3 who thought it would be a good idea to show this trash to the people of Ireland.

petes · 10-02-2005 05:33PM

Didnt she used to go out with Patrick Kielty. I had never heard of her until the g/f informed me of this. As far as being ashamed..eh..no..couldnt give a toss.

karlh · 10-02-2005 05:38PM

when the this crazy internet doohickey first took off, myself and my brother bought amandabyram.com, I can't remember why we thought she'd be famous.....maybe she had just started the tv3 breakfast thing.

is there any way to do a whois history on a domain?

LegacyUser · 10-02-2005 05:46PM

shokin programme, she's a crappy presenter too, v woodin.

billy the squid · 10-02-2005 05:46PM

the irish are great when it comes to begrudgery arent they?

fair play to her whoever she is for being successful in whatever she is doing. If more irish people got up off their arses and applied themselves the world would be a better place.

simu · 10-02-2005 05:49PM

GeorgeBailey wrote:

I wouldn't even be too bothered about the Americans making the show. If that's what the American people want then let them have it.

Exactly - Americans wouldn't find this as strange as Irish people do (not that that will last too long - plastic surgery is becoming mainstream here too).

Pigman II · 10-02-2005 05:54PM

You'd have to be impressed with how far she's come considering her apparent lack of talent/charm/personality .... and all those other cliched factors that seem go towards making a successful tv presenter.

As such it can't be denied that (career-wise at least) Amanda has certainly made a mountain out of a mole face.

windowgazer · 10-02-2005 05:59PM

Pigman II wrote:

As such it can't be denied that (career-wise at least) Amanda has certainly made a mountain out of a mole face.

rofl

Civilian_Target · 10-02-2005 05:59PM

Yeah, aren't RTE doing some sort of low-budget rip off - slicing up Dubs who feel they need bigger breasts but can't afford to pay for them?

As an Irish person, are you ashamed of Amanda Byram?

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