{"id":195793,"date":"2025-11-23T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195793\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:01:20","slug":"adele-condron-king-talks-about-sinead-oconnor-patrick-kielty-gay-byrne-the-late-late-show-kevin-bakhurst-charlie-haughey-and-cinderella-with-sammy-and-buffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195793\/","title":{"rendered":"Adele Condron-King talks about Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor, Patrick Kielty, Gay Byrne, The Late Late Show, Kevin Bakhurst, Charlie Haughey and Cinderella with Sammy and Buffy"},"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\">Adele Condron-King, aka Twink, talks about mothering Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor, Charlie Haughey being \u2018ahead of his time\u2019, challenging Gay Byrne, her grievances with The Late Late Show and her upcoming performance in the panto Cinderella with Sammy and Buffy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twink as the Queen of the Fairies with her dog Tayto for the panto Cinderella with Sammy and Buffy. Photo: Rob Kennedy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4c041f41-c0b5-434a-88a6-6046457a4b9c.jpg\" 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)\">Twink as the Queen of the Fairies with her dog Tayto for the panto Cinderella with Sammy and Buffy. Photo: Rob Kennedy<\/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)\">Tears are streaming down Twink\u2019s face. She looks distressed. I ask if she\u2019s OK. The icon of stage and small screen claims that she recently left a message for Kevin Bakhurst, director general of RT\u00c9, enquiring why she hadn\u2019t been asked on to The Late Late Show to talk about her part in the new panto.<\/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)\">\u201cI didn\u2019t even get the manners of a phone call back,\u201d she cries. \u201cAm I hurt? Oh, yes, I\u2019m hurt. Am I angry? No, I\u2019m hurt. I am so hurt. I\u2019m so hurt!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adele Condron-King, aka Twink, talks about mothering Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor, Charlie Haughey being \u2018ahead of his time\u2019, challenging Gay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4747,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,16036,11,12,4746,15,16,5,3409,1181,7,8],"class_list":["post-195793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-barry-egan","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-life-magazine","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-rte","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115598438519379038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195793","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=195793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}