Brendan Courtney has opened up about hosting his own TV show in the 2000s, admitting that he hated doing so. The Keys to My Life host initially hosted The Brendan Courtney Show on Virgin Media, then known as TV3, from 2005 to 2006 — with him interviewing such guests as the then Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton in her first interview since winning the show. The show only lasted one season, however — with Brendan saying nearly 20 years later that he wasn’t experienced enough to host a TV show.
‘I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, across the board,’ Brendan told DublinLive at Shine a Light. ‘I actually hated that show. ‘The Brendan Courtney Show at Howl At The Moon.
We gave a car way at every show. A car. I absolutely hated doing that show because I wasn’t ready for it and my opinions weren’t fully formed.
I was living the high life in London, doing the fashion programme for BBC. They kept pushing me into doing comedy and I didn’t want to do comedy.’ Despite hating working on TV, Brendan admitted that he was more comfortable where we hear him now — filling in on RTÉ Radio One for hosts such as Oliver Callan , where he said that he’s more in the zone.
‘I started covering for Ryan [Tubridy] and Oliver for like two years, people don’t remember that,’ Brendan said. ‘So when I sat in that chair and did my first interview, I was so in the zone. But the feedback I got was so overwhelmingly positive, it put me back in therapy.
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