Angela Scanlon said she moved to the UK to make it big as a presenter because she wasn’t being taken seriously in Ireland.
The Meath native started her career on TV3 and RTE – but she had to prove her merit before landing the bigger gigs. Not being taken seriously by commissioning editors was like “a slap in the face”, she recalls.
The BBC One Show star is back on our tellies this month for a second series of her Ask Me Anything hit RTE chat show. Now one of the most sought-after TV presenters here and across the water, she rose to fame with RTE 2 documentaries Oi Ginger and Full Frontal in 2014. And she admitted that carving a career in Ireland proved “tricky” at first.
