Terry Prone speaks out
She talks candidly to Olaf Tyaransen in the new issue of Hot Press.
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 10 Aug 2012
In an extraordinarily frank and hugely entertaining interview with Hot Press (to be published tomorrow, Thursday August 9), the journalist, commentator, author and high profile trainer Terry Prone talks to Hot Press' Olaf Tyaransen about her career to date, her dealings with Fr. Kevin Reynolds, her marriage to ex-priest Tom Savage, politicians and lots more...
A high achiever, Terry Prone first appeared on Irish television screens at the tender age of 13; treaded the boards of the Abbey Theatre as an actress within a year of leaving school; edited a national magazine before the age of 21 and wrote her first bestseller at 22. She reveals to Tyaransen, that she left the theatre for radio because she "simply could not stay thin".
"I was about five stone heavier than I am now," she explains, "and it was gently pointed out to me by the artistic director that a 19-year-old should be playing an ingenue."
Terry recalls the thought process behind her decision at the time, as follows: "'Okay, where's the one place that they can't see you at all? Radio! That's where I'm going'. So I got into radio and I was happy."
She also speaks about the hostile reaction to her marriage to ex-priest, Tom Savage; "I mean I had been told that I would never work again or never get work when it was known who I was marrying."
Prone, who describes television as a 'lousy medium' talks about the travails afflicting the Quinn family.
"Media, politicians, almost everybody, particularly in Dublin, look at this – I mean this CFD thing, he destabilised Anglo therefore he's partly responsible for the collapse of a nation. Yet in his own country, he's the man who brought employment: he's straightforward, upright and decent. And if you apply that to watching television, people take out of television precisely what they bring to it."
She also talks about her relationship with Padraig Flynn (describing him as one of her favourite clients) – and in particular the infamous appearance on the Late Late Show which many feel destroyed his political career.
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