Stop that!
This morning.
‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant and actor Ryan Andrews (left) and partner, teacher Michaela O’Neill launch this year’s CMRF Crumlin Abseil Challenge to raise funds to support the care and treatment of sick children in CHI at Crumlin.
Ryan and Michaela will be going to ‘new heights’ on September 18 when they drop 100 feet off the Hogan Stand in Croke Park in Dublin.
Later…
All better.
Any excuse.
Pic: Mark Stedman
From top: Laura Nolan, Steven Vincent, Kylee Vincent and Pasquale La Rocca
Swoon!
Splutter!
The new ‘pros’ on Adultery Dancing With The Stars.
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
It’s that time of the year again when the professional dancers will don their sequins and reunite to begin rehearsals for the brand new series of Dancing with the Stars.
The new dancers will be in good hands when they join returning seasoned DWTS pros; John Nolan, Karen Byrne, Robert Rowiński, Giulia Dotta, Kai Widdrington, Emily Barker and Ryan McShane as they prepare for another season of show stopping routines as only they know how.
New to the professional dancer line-up this year are Laura Nolan, Pasquale La Rocca, Kylee Vincent and Steven Vincent.
Over the coming weeks the pro team will sweat it out and pull out all the stops to go bigger and better as they gear up for another spectacular series of Dancing with the Stars.
NO affairs!
Fight!
Pic: RTÉ
Last night, in the US.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made his debut on Dancing With The Stars.
Jay.
Sus.
Sean Spicer Was an Extremely Good Sport on Dancing With the Stars. That’s Exactly the Problem (TIME)
Aoife Walsh
This just in.
RTÉ has announced that former Miss Ireland Aoife Walsh will bow out of Dancing with the Stars “due to issues with a fractured toe”.
A replacement will be announced in the coming days.
Metatarsal?
No, the rhumba.
Dancing with the Stars will air on Sunday, January 7.
Pic: RTÉ
Last night.
On RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars.
Contestant Hughie Maughan , left of host Nicky Byrne (above), went blackface.
He spoke to Ryan Tubridy on RTE Radio One this morning.
From their discussion:
Hughie Maughan: “I didn’t think it was going to be like, so many, one of the top trending things on Twitter and be in all the newspapers and…this morning I got a, I’d seen a clip, there’s a channel in America, and there’s a chat show and they spoke about my tan on the chat show.”
Ryan Tubridy: “And how do you feel about that?”
Maughan: “I think, that’s just weird because that was a genuine mistake. If I’d planned something probably nobody would speak about that. Cause I’d never be clever enough to speak about..it was a genuine mistake, it was like trying to make a bad situation better and then it just got worse.”
Tubridy: “The producer of the programme said ‘Hughie is like a hyperactive child. He can’t sit still or concentrate on one thing for any length of time. Everything he does is over the top, including his tan. I don’t know what he’ll be like next week. Maybe he’s going for a sponsorship deal with Ronseal‘.”
Maughan: Laughs.
Tubridy: “That’s from Larry Bass, of Shinawil, according to Melanie Finn, in the Herald this morning.”
Maughan: “Yeah, I know who he is. He’s just em… he’s really nice. But yeah, like…There’s people forgetting that I came from the Big Brother house. I’m not one of these, I’m not a professional athlete or something. I came from a trashy reality TV show. And I’ll probably go to another trashy reality TV show after Dancing with the Stars…”
Later
Tubridy: “Well, you’re adding to the entertainment factor of the programme, no doubt about it. You’re a good sport to get up for us this morning and take our call. I appreciate it…”
Watch Dancing with the Stars back here
Listen to The Ryan Tubridy Show back here
Pic: Bibi Paloma
Des Cahill (above) and the cast of RTÉ’s Dancing with the Stars (top) from left: Des Bishop, Aidan O’Mahony, Denise McCormack; Des Cahill, Katherine Lynch, Dayl Cronin, Aobhinn Garrihy, Dr Eve Orsmond, Thalia Heffernan, Hughie Maughan and Teresa Mannion
When asked if considers himself Ireland’s answer to Strictly star Ed Balls – who proved to be an unlikely hit with viewers after appearing on the BBC show – Cahill said he does, except he’s even older than 49-year-old Labour politician.
Des said: “It would [be a fair comparison] except I’m ten years older than Ed Balls. He was the fat old guy and I’m ten years older.”
*Kicks telly*
RTÉ One is delighted to announce that the world-renowned entertainment format Dancing with the Stars is to air in the New Year!
— RTE One (@RTEOne) August 3, 2016
Dancing With The Stars will be produced by @ShinawilTV for RTÉ and will air on RTÉ One in early 2017!
— RTE One (@RTEOne) August 3, 2016
“We are delighted to be bringing such a hugely popular format as Dancing with the Stars to RTÉ One…we are confident that Irish audiences will take this home-grown version to their hearts. Family entertainment shows are a cornerstone of what RTÉ One is all about.”
Adrian Lynch, Channel Controller, RTÉ One and RTÉ2.
*Cha-cha-chas over imaginary telly licence*
Thanks Garthicus
Ronan Murphy writes:
Seen the ads for the new Dancing with the Stars on Channel 7 in Australia and thought, Jaysus, I don’t know any of this lot. Hold the phone there’s bloody Vogue! Or as Channel 7 put it:
‘Vogue Williams (International DJ) – dancing with Christopher Page (top) – Vogue Williams has been a DJ in her homeland of Ireland for five years and most recently held a residency at the hip inner city club Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin. Vogue, who has also modeled, is engaged to fellow Irish superstar and Australia’s Got Talent judge Brian McFadden.’
