‘The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy’ podcast review: Just one problem – it doesn’t sound like Tubs has read the books

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/the-bookshelf-with-ryan-tubridy-podcast-review-just-one-problem-it-doesnt-sound-like-tubs-has-read-the-books/a181699271.html

Posted by SeanB2003

7 Comments

  1. >He has absolutely nothing to say about ‘Green Eggs and Ham’, and talks in a general way about Dr Seuss and books for kids. He has only the vaguest grasp of who Philip Larkin was, let alone any familiarity with his poems. And he has nothing at all to offer on Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled.

    >. . .

    >The worst moment came when Tubridy asked Walliams what, in the event of him writing his autobiography, the book would be called. Walliams replied that he had written an autobiography. (It was called ‘Camp David’, which is a good title. It was published in October 2012 by Michael Joseph. God Almighty, is there no researcher?)

    I thought his whole thing was that he liked books?

  2. TonyWalnuts17 on

    Brilliant. The man has no integrity whatsoever, it’s made him a wealthy man so I doubt he cares though.

  3. BrickEnvironmental37 on

    The whole Tubridy-Books thing is massively manufactured.

    When they were trying to reinvent him after the Late Late debacle, they must have realized how vacant he is. On UK radio, it’s basically just “I’m irish, I read books”, here’s a picture of me in a book store.

    I remember when he first went to the UK he said he was currently reading some book and somebody noticed that he was also talking about the same book about 6 months previous on RTE.

    The chap is vacant. He has no interests. His life has always been about rocking up to RTE and the production team will do the doggy work for him, whilst he wings it on air.