Presenter Mairead Ronan has introduced her departure from RTÉ’s common actuality competitors collection, Eire’s Fittest Household.
Sharing the information with followers on her podcast, Jenny and Mairead Now, together with Jenny D’Arcy. As for why, Mairead revealed that after ten years on the collection, she desires a brand new “problem”. The Dubliner confessed to quitting in February as they had been internet hosting the next season.
“I’m now not the host of Eire’s Fittest Household.”
“I did it in early February. I bought the decision to say, ‘It is this yr once more, Collection 11 and we’ll meet up and we’ll do the chats and speak about that new contract.’ And all that stuff it’s good to speak about. I used to be like, ‘cool,’ after which I met them and I stated, ‘I am not going again,'” she defined.
Continued: “I have been enthusiastic about it since filming the final episode final yr. I’ve considered it masses and masses and masses.”
There is not any unhealthy blood, although, with the 43-year-old insisting she “loves the present” as a result of she’s leaving as a result of she desires to attempt one thing new.
“I have been there from yr one to yr ten, I’ve seen it evolve from this tiny little homegrown format in Eire to this mainstay within the RTÉ scheme. However I did it and I can not do something anymore and I might simply love to do one thing else, I would love one other problem,” she revealed.
“After I bought off the radio I loved the change and I would love a change on this space too.”
Mairead additionally spoke about Ryan Tubridy’s high-profile departure from The Late Late Present, confessing that she had one thing to do together with his departure announcement.
“It is humorous as a result of a number of the strains and a number of the issues I stated to the present’s bosses the day I broke the information to them I heard Ryan Tubridy say on the radio a couple of month later. For instance, I do know when it is time to depart the social gathering and I went dwelling in a taxi.
“And the humorous factor is, I’ve stated I all the time know when to finish a relationship. I all the time know when to go away a celebration and I all the time know when to go away a job.”
“And that is the best time for me to stop this job, it simply is. However I loved working with them. I labored with that gang for 12 years. They’re like my TV household,” she gushed.
Earlier than Mairead began internet hosting Eire’s Fittest Household, Mairead participated in Superstar Bainisteoir after which introduced it in 2012, which was additionally a sports activities competitors collection and was made by the identical manufacturing firm.
“So 12 years in a row throughout the summer time exterior, getting blown away in fields, getting rain in my face. However it’s so good and I beloved each second of it, however I might love to do one thing completely different.”
“And the reality is I’ve nothing else. So it isn’t like I can say, “There are some things within the pipeline.” It isn’t, it is a large bounce in… I do not know. I could by no means be on tv once more.
“It is about leaving it at a excessive degree and leaving it within the arms of somebody new.”
I hereby want her the very best of luck in her future endeavours.