Get out of my house.
This picture of Tyan Rubridy in the Daily Mail is interesting. The accompanying interview reveals Ryan’s feelings on the drop in ratings for the dire Late Late Show and how he deals with the constant barrage of criticism. I can’t figure out why the photographer would get him to pose that way. It’s almost as if they are trying to draw some sort of parallel between the critical persecution of Tubridy and something or someone else. Christ knows what that could be. Here’s Ryan with his niggaz.
A growing list of Irish celebrities are coming to terms with the downside of a life lived online. Twitter, Facebook and other social media give celebs direct and immediate contact with their fanbase. It’s an ideal platform to advertise their latest book, exercise DVD, designer clothing line, etc, for free. But it also opens them up to the haters.
Haters is the term given to those who fling abuse at others online. Trolling is the verb used to describe what they do. The haters love nothing better than to troll famous figures and hopefully drag them into a fight. You don’t have to read too far between the lines of their bile to figure out that some of the haters have been bullied themselves.
A particular corner of online Ireland seems to have it in for Ryan Tubridy. Boards.ie, a site that hosts a variety of special-interest forums, is buzzing with Friday-night haters who reckon the best way to end the week is watching The Late Late Show with a bottle of wine and the laptop next to them on the couch.
If their negative comments on the site are anything to go by, they sound like they are sitting there in leather bondage gear, with a pool ball tied into their mouth, the remote control just out of reach, being whipped by a dominatrix in a Ryan Tubridy mask. They take incredibly perverse pleasure from watching Tubridy every Friday. The worst thing you could do to them is cancel the Late Late. Except, of course, they’re masochists, so they’d probably enjoy the pain.
Not to mention misogynists. A potent blend of piety, snobbery and good old-fashioned woman-hating erupted when pictures of the infamous McBarron sisters started to appear on the website showbiz.ie.
They were labelled the McMunters by people leaving comments at showbiz.ie and faced comments like: “Ah jaysus it’s the three billy goats gruff themselves, to what do we owe the pleasure? I’m only delighted there’s a market for ye, off ye go back to Donegal so where some half-blind farmer with a penchant for goats will see to ye.”
And: “god i cant bear to look at them, nightmares!!” Over at boards.ie, haters reacted with, “Head on her like a melted welly! Jesus thats rough” and “yer wan has a head on her like a bucket of smashed crabs”.
I just can’t get over the fact that Ryan Tubs is leaving for the BBC. He’s coming back, but still, he’s leaving for a while. I know he has his critics, but to be fair, he’s the best we have.
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Santa, Pat Kenny and Barney the Dinosaur, yesterday. Inset: Ryan Tubridy.
Former cannabis smuggler Howard Marks has revealed that he was “stoned” and his fellow guest, Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, was drunk when they appeared on The Late Late Show last December.
A talk-show veteran at this stage, Marks has appeared on the Late Late with all three of its most recent hosts since his release from prison in 1995.
“I didn’t think much of Ryan Tubridy that night,” he says. “I didn’t think he was very good. I would’ve preferred Gay Byrne, to be honest. There was a guy between the two of them, wasn’t there? Pat Kenny? Yeah, I didn’t think that much of him, either.
Sunday Independent
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