Eoghan McDermott Biography
Eoghan McDermott is a television and radio broadcaster from Ireland. He most recently hosted The RTÉ 2fm Breakfast Show on radio, and on television, he has hosted The Voice of Ireland and Ireland’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest selection shows.
How old is Eoghan McDermott? – Age
He is 40 years old as of 15 April 2023. He was born in 1983 in Limerick, Ireland.
Eoghan McDermott Family – Education
He was born to Kevin McDermott, an author. He is the lone boy on either side of two sisters, and he is the middle child. Roe McDermott, his younger sister, is a film critic for Hot Press magazine. McDermott wanted to be a Garda (police officer) or a teacher when he was younger before he got into the media.
Eoghan McDermott Relationship
On March 2, 2022, McDermott uploaded on social media a letter written by attorneys representing a client who had “made false allegations against him” that “arose out of a relationship which they had some years previously.” The letter went on to say that the client “was above the age of consent at all times she and Mr. McDermott met or engaged in a physical relationship, contrary to her original claim.”
Eoghan McDermott Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Eoghan McDermott RTÉ2
McDermott is a native Irish speaker who began his broadcasting career on TG4’s POP4, a music request and top 40 show. This was followed by a role in TG4’s youth drama Seacht, in which he played Pete. He then moved on to POP4, a weekly chart music show with live musicians. Other hosting credits include Frenemies, an RTÉ2 young discussion game program, and Immeal Geall, a BBC Northern Ireland bilingual magazine show. He co-hosted a season of The Movie Show on RTÉ2 beginning in November 2012. McDermott competed in MTV UK’s Pick Me MTV competition in 2008, but lost to Laura Whitmore.
McDermott made his UK television debut in September 2013, hosting Channel 5’s Celebrity Super Spa. Other credits include Totes Amazeballs, a 2013 highlight program, and Next Year’s News, a satirical comedy-panel show that predicts major news items for the coming year. Both programs aired on RTÉ2. Since its start, he has co-hosted The Voice of Ireland with Kathryn Thomas. McDermott hosted a live spin-off show on RTÉ2 during Season 3 of The Voice. In the summer of 2014, he recorded a new series for RTÉ2 called Drunk, which examined the impact of drinking on the body and psyche.
Eoghan McDermott Breakfast Show
McDermott began anchoring the new breakfast show on RTÉ 2fm with Doireann Garrihy in June 2019. The RTÉ 2fm Breakfast Show is the station’s flagship show. Declan Meehan was the inaugural breakfast show host, and he held the position for slightly under five months. Marty Whelan took over for Meehan and has had the honor of hosting the breakfast show four times. Ian Dempsey is the longest-serving breakfast show host, having presented on two occasions during a ten-year period. Eoghan McDermott left the show in March 2021 and was replaced by Doireann Garrihy, Carl Mullan, and Donncha O’Callaghan in May 2021.
Eoghan McDermott Career
McDermott began his radio vocation on a bi-lingual graph music show on Dublin radio broadcast Twist 1038 out of 2009. He likewise co-introduced the fruitful “Sunday Administration” prior to being poached by Worldwide Radio in the UK.
In Walk 2011 he started obligations as host of Drive Time with radio broadcast XFM. In his most memorable year, McDermott’s show was partnered to Xfm Manchester. Soon after, he was selected for “Best Novice” in the public business radio honors, supported by Arqiva. In April 2012, The Watchman paper, while talking about the new arrangement of Greg James on BBC Radio1 Drivetime, guaranteed McDermott’s show was the best DriveTime public broadcast of its type in the UK.
McDermott played the lead job of “DJ Pete” in each of the four series of the joint TG4/BBC Northern Ireland creation, Seacht, a high schooler show. Of his experience on Seacht, McDermott later said: “That is the excellence of beginning a channel that doesn’t have an enormous crowd: you can commit a ton of errors that go unnoticed.” McDermott gives talks all through Ireland at different occasions about psychological sickness. He made a video on the subject of self-hurt for Pieta House in 2014, in which he alluded to his own insight.
Eoghan McDermott Movies and TV Shows
♦ 2003 – Pop 4
♦ 2010–2011 – Seacht
♦ 2011 – Frenemies
♦ 2012–2016 – The Voice of Ireland
♦ 2013 – Celebrity Super Spa
♦ 2015–2019 – Junior Eurovision Eire
♦ 2018 – Celebrity Home of the Year
♦ 2018–2020, 2022–present – Love Island Australia
♦ 2020 – RTÉ Does Comic Relief