150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

I don’t read or watch any of his fare apart from some inquisitive listens early on to confirm what I already knew (he’s useless), but I still thoroughly enjoy this thread. I don’t watch any soaps on TV (or any TV for that matter apart from some live sports), but Tubridy’s downfall, and the pathetic depths he’s been forced to limbo himself down to in the most excruciatingly cringy ways possible to attempt to stay relevant is my soap, it’s my Eastenders and Fair City….. And just with the soaps, I know they exist, yet have no care to watch them because I know they are sh1t. Similar to Tubridy. So knowing his downfall is well and truly under way, I have no care to watch it, but I greatly enjoy the fact it’s happening, because I simply don’t like the man.

I’m not bitter towards him and would never wish him ill health, but I just think he’s a Grade A, USDA certified, Limited Edition Ar$ehǒle.

nobody gives a damn what your carrier bag says if you walk around London. It’s pretty cheap looking so maybe that’s why he got the looks in what is a Waitrose part of town

He's trying to copy Matt Damon with the SuperValu bag. He thinks it will go viral and become a massive hit across the UK and Ireland.

https://extra.ie/2020/05/13/entertainment/celebrity/matt-damon-supervalu-bag

And we should ignore Dee Forbes time at RTÉ, she did after all cause Ryan to leave RTÉ in the end.

His show and content presentation is so out of kilter with what Virgin Radio UK is supposedly trying to target or appeal to. Most of their listeners are not really interested in some British author, btw this is no reflection on her, they have simply selected the radio station for music, hence will tune out if the music output turns to waffle. Brute forcing Ryan Tubridy onto their mid-morning schedule was a bad decision by NewsUK CEO. It makes no sense for an experienced radio PD to dollop a pseudo music/chat show - post breakfast with an unknown and unproven (in the UK) presenter onto a formatted music radio station and it is evident that they are trying to recover listeners by introducing a dedicated 80's hour immediately following his slot.

Irrespective of whether folks are interested in books or not, Virgin Radio UK's core listeners are not tuning into the radio station for this.

Furthermore, Tubridy is really not interested in winning over the UK listener. He has not altered his presentation or displayed any compatibility, resulting with some of their listeners having difficulty understanding or not being able to follow what he is saying.

Going around St Johns Wood with a SuperValu bag and posting images on Instagram from last week gives the impression that he really misses home. I would think the novelty of London has well worn off at this point, he doesn't want to be there and Virgin Radio UK listeners really couldn't care less about him. The Paddy Power sponsorship is his safety net but even they will not continue to flog a dead horse, pardon the pun.

He mustn't have looked at any signs on the island.

Inishbofin aka Inisbofin is one word. It's not separated like Inis Meann or Inis Oirr on the Aran Islands.

The Bofin is a beautiful part of the world. Some place to kick back and relax for a few days. Great pubs, great music, great food, stunning beaches, great walks, lovely locals. A place to put down the phone for a few days and enjoy a simpler life. Looks like he got the weather as well, which makes a huge difference.

Posting a happy update from the Bofin would seem like a very standard thing to do. Not sure it’s hiding anything. Strange theory tbh.

I lived in London for 16 years, three of them in Maida Vale, so not far from the famous Abbey Road crossing. It's London, you could go around wearing a shopping bag on your head and people might not bother to look - they've seen everything.

Maura hasn't replied, but Rose has. She said Ryan would be a brilliant supermarket tycoon and he's the next Fergal Quinn.

I wish Dee Forbes would post some pictures of her West Cork base, I'd say she hiding away, not much from GoL or Coveney either.

I can't tell of the Rose comment is real or not.

Not a chance. She is a very sick woman. Sure isn't she hooked up to about a million machines keeping her alive. Lucky if she ever leaves her bed.

I had heard alright, I was more getting at bobson.

You seem to forget the cause of all this isn't posters on Boards.

Posting about his perfect, happy life could be an escape from his real-life struggles and to get positive comment from Rose and Maura.

Rose is possibly Breda O'Keeffe and Maura is possibly Geraldine O'Leary, so with that kind of money in their back pocket I'd assume your right Bob.

I would watch the **** out of Ryan interacting with some "Road men" in Hackney, Dalston or Shoreditch.