Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

The lovely Ingrid threw some burns at George Hook on the Ray D'Arcy Show last night

No holding back.

THE MAIN DRAW of last night’s Ray D’Arcy show was undoubtedly the rare TV appearance of George Hook in tandem with his wife Ingrid.

She’s been talked about so much on air down the years, everyone was waiting to see what the craic was.

Ray made a bit of a hames of the greeting, but moved swiftly on

greeting RTÉ Player RTÉ Player

And once they got straight into the interview, it became clear that George wasn’t going to get a word in all night – and Ingrid was there to throw some real truths out to the nation.

At first, Ray put it to her that George talks about her all the time on the radio but that a lot of people know very little about her:

“So does he” she said

georgeingrid RTE Player RTE Player

Going over the story of how they met, Ray asks:

“So he sent you flowers, and included air tickets to fly you over to Dublin?”

“OK, if he says so”

burn1 RTE RTE

“And your courtship was done through letters?”

“Ah yes… I kept those letters for many years after having got married and re-read them and only then realised that they were all a pack of lies”

burn2 RTÉ RTÉ

Buuuurn.

To which George could only respond:

“This is a great interview – well done D’Arcy, well done”

welldone RTE RTE

Moving on, then.

Ray got back to it:

“George, you went from being a very happy and susccesful salesman…”

“I wouldn’t say successful now”

successful RTE RTE

Ingrid in again.

The people want to see more Ingrid

Or even a show together would work pretty well

They’re some pair

The audience reaction throughout was seriously gas too

RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA / YouTube

Edge-of-your-seat awkward TV at its very best.

Written by David Elkin and posted on DailyEdge.ie

[image alt="" src="http://cdn.thejournal.ie/media/2016/01/img2-thejournal-215.png" width="600" height="115" credit-url="" credit-source="" credit-via="" credit-via-url="" wp-id="wp-image-2540491" class="alignnone" /end]

More There is a lovely engagement notice in today’s Irish Times>

More Sky News just claimed Saoirse Ronan “as one of our own”>

Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone...
A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation.

Close
64 Comments
    Submit a report
    Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
    Thank you for the feedback
    Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.
    JournalTv
    News in 60 seconds