Celebrity You’re a Star
August 2nd, 2006
You’re a Star. You’re a waste of my TV licence fee more like. The best thing RTE has produced in recent years, Reeling in the Years, didn’t cost them a penny and is now repeated more often than the Simpsons “Timmy O’Toole Trapped Down the Well” episode. But they continue to play it safe with more cop-out reality TV, and mock us with their complete lack of creativity or common sense.
Celebrity You’re a Star… I turned it on because I wanted to hear John Aldridge singing. How could I have been such a fool. You’re a Star has been a source of so much anger for me in the past, its back and worse than ever. How can they continue to do this to us? The people at RTE - they axed our favourite radio shows and now they continue to torture us with the four most despised faces on RTE:
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Linda Martin: I have heard nothing but complaints about her. Who is this bag of bones and who does she think she is, telling that contestant that he has no talent? According to RTE, she is “one of Ireland’s most professional ladies of song and has a track record to prove it.” Since when does winning the Eurovision once with a Johnny Logan song qualify you as one of Ireland’s most professional ladies of song? Perhaps RTE haven’t spent a lot of time browsing through the ‘Linda Martin’ section in HMV lately. The second most annoying woman on TV, apparently she also worked behind the scenes on X-factor. She should stay behind the scenes.| Death |
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Twink: Irish people have been praying to be rid of her for 30 years. “Barbie’s grandma”’s personality shone through on RTE’s Celebrity Farm, where she was the first contestant to be evicted by the public, dumped out of the house like a sack of extremely annoying spuds. In terms of popularity, she ranks just above Hitler.| Pestilence |
 Louis Walsh: Nausea incarnate. I won’t feed his ego by mentioning him anymore. |
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Derek Mooney: The only reason Derek Mooney is merely disliked, as opposed to hated, is because the public don’t know him well enough yet. Slowly taking over our screens, he’s the next Marty Whelan, but not as likeable. That says a lot.The fact that the show is a success despite these huge obstacles hints at the potential it could have, given some halfway acceptable presenters. RTE - please conduct a survey to prove me wrong. Honestly, I don’t think its possible to do worse than you have managed with this cast. I would sooner watch a dozen Ant and Decs co-presenting with Ryan Tubridy. What would it take for you to listen to your viewers?
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August 2nd, 2006 at 8:53 am
Kudos to me, who has managed not to watch any celebrity reality tv in the past few months. Apart from a few episodes of that Fools on Horses thingy. And that was only to watch the hosses.
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 am
oh so funny James…..I like Ronan tho..he is very professional.
I thought the guy from Fair City was very good. The rest vary between watching with hands over face cringing and so bad just funny….
December 9th, 2006 at 15:06 pm
Derek Mooney is utterly devoid of character, charm, wit or anything that’s needed to be a good presenter. He comes across as self-obsessed, without any kind of empathy for anyone he speaks to, brittle and frankly, without much brain cells to speak of. To call him the next Marty Whelan is huge praise - at least Marty seems humble and likeable. Why oh why do RTE persist in giving people like this a chance? So dull & uninspiring. He sounds so unlikeable on the radio, and his humour is the kind that you’d come across in a pub and slowly edge away from.
The best thing that ever happened to Derek was Des Bishop outing him, at least that gave him an ounce of character. He should stick to bingo, what he’s good at - reading out a few numbers as the old ladies fall for his cringing faux charm. The rest of Ireland won’t.