Beloved by the Irish public as the potential traitor to defeat all traitors and possibly even all faithfuls – Paudie\u2019s reality stardom was always guaranteed thanks to a life of hard knocks, his son Andrew believes.<\/p>\n
Andrew Moloney – ousted from the RT\u00c9 One show on Sunday night – said he felt his \u2018daddy\u2019s\u2019 job had definitely defined him as a successful traitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to be strong minded as a prison officer,” Andrew said. \u201cIf you\u2019re working in a prison environment for 30 years of your life, you have to be able to take things as they come. It\u2019s an ever- changing environment. Absolutely, I do think it did (help.)\u201d<\/p>\n
Prison officers also tend to keep a low profile away from the public domain. This would no doubt have aided the Limerick man too in maintaining a low profile as the traitor most never suspected.<\/p>\n
Patrick Hughes, the Co Mayo man – who survived death row on the show – only to be banished as a faithful on Monday night – also felt jail work helped Paudie master the game.<\/p>\n
However, former casino manager Patrick Hughes, failed to unmask Paudie\u2019s poker face. Patrick admitted he had \u201ca suspicion\u201d about Paudie, yet he had zero game plan to oust him.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom day one – and I said it to Kelley – \u2018Watch out for Paudie beside you,\u2019 Patrick said. \u201cI recognised instantly in his background as a prison officer, he thrived and lived 30 years in a chaotic environment like this,\u201d Patrick added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI instantly thought he’d be brilliant in an environment like this. You can see he’s sitting back saying nothing, hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically Mark and others should have got together and got rid of him, he\u2019s the biggest threat. It\u2019s those cute strategies that kept him in so long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cast favourite, IT analyst Mark, from Co Laois, may have been murdered by the traitors but there were no hard feelings. Mark shared how just a few months before applying for the RT\u00c9 hit, \u201ctwo of my friends passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n
This loss led him to want to take every opportunity life threw at him. And he never for one second felt being deaf would hold him back.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery reality show has a disabled person,\u201d Mark said. \u201cRemember Tasha on Love Island,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cNot that I\u2019m going on Love Island, not yet anyhow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery reality show needs something. I said (I\u2019d) put in a joke here and there, make it funny. I don\u2019t want being deaf to be a highlight. (I) have humour, a personality\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
And he swore he never once used the skill of lip-reading to gain some advantage in the game. But he admitted regretting saying he could lip-read because some may have felt it gave him an edge.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile life goes on after the Traitors – but Andrew did reveal he\u2019s still calling his \u201cDaddy\u201d Paudie because he just became so paranoid that someone would unmask the father-son relationship, it\u2019s now stuck.<\/p>\n
And in a heartwarming twist, at least someone will be getting called \u2018Daddy\u2019 soon. Andrew said he\u2019s excited to become a father. His wife, Aisling is expecting a baby on October 20.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be such a nice shift,\u201d Andrew said. \u201cWe will have a screaming baby\u2026 It\u2019s nice to have that distraction\u201d.<\/p>\n
And despite his protestation, Andrew said his father was just being \u201ccute\u201d when pretending he doesn\u2019t do hugs on the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved by the Irish public as the potential traitor to defeat all traitors and possibly even all faithfuls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,2188,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-68172","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-laura-lynott","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68172","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=68172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}