Marty Whelan
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Martin 'Marty' Whelan (born 7 June 1956) is an Irish radio and television presenter who works for Raidió Teilif's Éireann (RTÉ).
His early television appearances included programmes like Millionaire and Fortune, as well as Open House on a weekday afternoon. Before Ryan Tubridy was fired in 2003, Whelan hosted the Rose of Tralee contest, a position he had held since 1997.
Marty in the Morning, a RTÉ 2fm radio show, was axed in 2007 and replaced with The Colm & Jim Jim Breakfast Show.
Since winning the reality show Celebrity Bainisteoir in 2008, Whelan has returned to television.
Since winning the series, he has made another return to television as a guest-host on RTÉ One's topical comedy show The Panel.
He also appeared in RTÉ's Charity You're a Star as a guest judge, substituting Louis Walsh in a one-hour program. Whelan received his own weekday lunchtime show on RTÉ lyric fm, beginning in September 2009.
In September 2009, he returned to television to co-present Winning Streak with Kathryn Thomas.
He's been doing this for as long as he has been doing this. Since 2000, Whelan has been providing the television commentary for RTÉ's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, but Whelan has written the Irish commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest 1987.
Early life
In 1956, Whelan was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the only child. "I had cousins and acquaintances to play with every day," he said about his childhood. In Killester, Whelan attended school. He spent five years with an insurance company before deciding to go back to radio with the pirate radio station Radio Dublin. In April 1978, he and most of the DJs left this station as part of a broader split, bringing the Big D together. Whelan started working on weekends but decided against doing the drivetime show in September 1978.
Personal life
Whelan is married to Maria. Jessica and Thomas have two children. The couple met in 1974 and were dating for over ten years before marrying on August 13, 1985. Maria left her career as an air hostess with Aer Lingus at the time when they were both living at home. Badminton, rugby, DIY, and football are among Whelan's hobbies. In his spare time, he likes to play indoors with some of his colleagues at RTE. That's Life, Whelan's memoirs, were published in October 2015.
Career
In 1979, Whelan joined RTÉ Radio 2, now known as RTÉ 2fm. Prior to that he worked on pirate radio under the name Marty Hall. During his first tenure with the station he presented a number of shows such as Drivetime and Marty till Midnight. He also spent three years presenting RTÉ 2fm's Breakfast Show in a role he would return to in 2005.
In the mid-1980s Whelan began developing his television career, becoming the first male presenter of the hit fashion programme Head 2 Toe. Other popular TV shows followed, including the Where in the World? quiz programme (1987–1989) and Video File (1983–1989), in which he interviewed major stars of the music world.
In 1989, Whelan left RTÉ radio to join its rival radio station, Century Radio. When that project failed he was given the cold shoulder by RTÉ.
Whelan returned to the national broadcaster in the mid-1990s when he presented such shows as Go For It, Off the Record and Millionaire. He hosted RTÉ One's summer lottery show Fame and Fortune on Saturday nights for at least ten years. He spent ten years on television as presenter of the John Player Tops.
In 1997, Whelan became Master of Ceremonies at the annual Rose of Tralee contest but, in the first of a series of losses, he was replaced by Ryan Tubridy in 2003. In 2004, RTÉ's flagship afternoon magazine programme Open House was axed, leaving Whelan jobless once again. Whelan had filled the role of co-host alongside Mary Kennedy since 1998. He was reported to be "shocked" and "very disappointed". He also said he would "personally deliver every copy" of Mary Kennedy's new book Paper Tigers, reasoning, "Sure I have nothing else to be doing with my time".
A substitute slot for Gerry Ryan on his morning radio show on RTÉ 2fm in the summer of 2005 led to a more permanent return to the station for Whelan. Marty in the Morning, which itself caused controversy when it replaced The Rick & Ruth Breakfast Show, began on 26 September 2005. In January 2007, it was announced that Marty in the Morning would end that March when Colm & Jim-Jim arrived from FM104. He was on holiday when he discovered another show had been axed. Whelan returned to the role of filling in for Gerry Ryan when Ryan was on leave.
Since then Whelan has appeared as himself in feature films, at the co-opening of a Dunnes outlet in Galway with retired broadcaster Gay Byrne and filling a cameo role (again as himself) on the soap opera, Fair City. He still commentates on RTÉ's television coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest each May.
Whelan presented a two-hour Sunday with Marty Whelan show on RTÉ lyric fm from Sunday, 1 March 2009 at 14:30, taking over from veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne, but only until that September. In July 2009, Whelan provided commentary on the Michael Jackson memorial service for RTÉ Two. Following on from Sunday with Marty Whelan, he received his own weekday lunchtime show on lyric fm, Marty at Midday, commencing September 2009. That same month, he began co-presenting Winning Streak on RTÉ One each Saturday night, alongside Sinead Kennedy.
As of October 2010 Whelan presents Marty in the Morning weekday mornings between 7 and 10 on RTÉ Lyric FM. His more recent television programmes apart from Winning Streak were in summer 2009 he presented a series called A Little Bit Funny followed by A Little Bit Eurovision in summer 2011.
In 1987 and 1988, Whelan co-hosted Eurosong (Irish heats for the Eurovision Song Contest) along with Maxi. RTÉ gave the commentator's job to different presenters between 1988 and 1999 including Mike Murphy, Ronan Collins, Jimmy Greeley and Pat Kenny. In the autumn of 1999, Pat Kenny decided not to return as Commentator. Reportedly Gerry Ryan (who had hosted the contest in 1994) was RTÉ's favorite for the job. However, it was later announced that RTÉ would give the job back to Whelan. Whelan returned to commentate for Ireland at the 2000 Contest, which was held in Sweden and continues to provide commentary for RTÉ since 2000.