{"id":133469,"date":"2025-10-20T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:50:10","slug":"living-with-lucy-review-james-mcclean-encounter-marred-by-presenter-lucy-kennedys-tiresome-shtick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133469\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Living with Lucy\u2019 review: James McClean encounter marred by presenter Lucy Kennedy&#8217;s tiresome shtick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Living with Lucy\u2019 (Virgin Media One) 2\/5\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lucy Kennedy with James McClean. Photo: Virgin Media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lucy.jpeg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lucy Kennedy with James McClean. Photo: Virgin Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It sometimes feels as if Living with Lucy (Virgin Media One, Sunday, October 19 and Virgin Media Play) has been around for ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It hasn\u2019t, although it has enjoyed a remarkable and frankly bewildering longevity. It started on RT\u00c92 in 2008 under the title Livin\u2019 with Lucy, ran for three seasons and disappeared in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Living with Lucy\u2019 (Virgin Media One) 2\/5 Lucy Kennedy with James McClean. Photo: Virgin Media It sometimes feels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,9162,132,34851],"class_list":{"0":"post-133469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pat-stacey","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-virgin-media-television"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}