Comedian Joanne McNally has revealed she was told she would never book Dublin’s Vicar Street - because of her posh accent.
The Dubliner has sold out a record 62-night Prosecco Express tour at the iconic venue.
But she revealed she was once told because of her upper-class drawl, she would never be able to book Vicar Street.
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She said: “My accent would have stood against me, of course. I was always told I’d never book Vicar Street with this voice.
“It hasn’t affected me in the UK at all thankfully.
“I remember being cc-ed on an email before and I shouldn’t have, and one of the bookers wrote something like, ‘It’ll be great to have Joanne on the panel as an authentic working-class Irish woman.
“I couldn’t believe it. Then, of course, I got on my high horse and asked him whether it was just because I was Irish – but he said it was because of my subject matter,” she told Sunday Independent’s Life magazine.
Joanne also opened up about her “healthy” relationship with boyfriend, DJ and model Alan Byrne.
The pair started dating earlier this year, after they matched on celebrity dating app Raya. They went public in June after four months of dating.
“I love being in a relationship, but I feel like single woman is my brand. I can’t even pull off the word ‘boyfriend’. It feels like I’m wearing my mother’s high heels,” the comedian joked.
But Joanne also told how she relied on men to “fix her” in the past.
“I was such a f**k up. I wanted to prove to people, and myself, that I wasn’t an idiot.”
“I was so sick and all I wanted to be was attractive and I hated myself.”
“I was severely underweight, and always looking to men and relationships to fix me.”
Joanne explained that her relationships would last around three months, and when they fizzled out, it was a traumatising experience for her because “it felt like I was no longer worth loving.”
“It’s a dangerous place to be in, which I only realise now as I’ve found myself in a place where I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. And my relationship is thriving because of it,” she said.
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