Full line-up of celebrities to take on reality show The Restaurant revealed - including RTE star and GAA legend | The Irish Sun

2022-09-24 10:26:11 By : Mr. GANG Li

THE full line-up of celebrities taking on reality show The Restaurant has been revealed - and includes and RTE star and GAA legend.

The fan favorite show is back next week after taking a break for the last three years.

Viewers will see celebrities pushed out of their comfort zone and into the kitchen.

Six new stars putting on the Head Chef uniform and creating a menu to hopefully impress experts Marco Pierre White and Rachel Allen.

Here's everything you need to know about the new Virgin Media series.

RTE 2fm breakfast host and social media star Doireann will be trying her hand at cooking in the new series.

The mimic and social media star previously told how it was quite a challenge for her.

She said: "So before I went on holidays to Spain I took on an average enough challenge ( @donalskehan I don’t want to hear a word out of you )…I went on @therestaurant !!!!!

"Jokes aside, anyone who has ever been subjected to my cooking or watched me do a cook-along on insta live will know that I am extremely culinarily challenged.

"Like, a shocking lack of skills. It’s a wonder I’ve kept myself alive since I moved out of home.

"But both @aoibhingarrihy and @donnchaocallaghan (graduates of The Restaurant) assured me it would be the toughest but MOST rewarding day of filming ever…and they weren’t wrong.

"I had the absolute best craic with the whole team, and cannot wait for you to see it. Coming soon!!"

Comedian Deirdre O'Kane will bring some humour to the kitchen on the show.

Deirdre is no stranger to reality shows after taking part in the first series of Dancing With The Stars and has featured on plenty of panel shows.

Deirdre also is the narrator for Gogglebox Ireland as well as being a hugely successful stand-up and presenter.

GAA legend Philly McMahon will be swapping football boots for a chef's hat in the new series.

Philly previously revealed his wife's pregnancy played a big role in his retirement.

The EIGHT time All Ireland winner called time on his glittering inter county career with the Boys in Blue last year.

And the Ballymun Kickhams star says his wife Sarah Lacey was the 'big decider' on walking away from the inter county game.

He told Ireland AM: “The first was my wife. When you’re looking back on a sporting career, I’m very lucky I play a sport I love. It started off as a hobby but your wife or your partner is the one that basically makes all the sacrifices.

“My wife Sarah is due a baby in two weeks and that was the big decider for me."

Young Offenders star Demi Isaac Oviawe will be doing her best to impress the judges this year.

Demi previously featured on Dancing With The Stars and more recently appeared on ITV's Holding, the adaptation Graham Norton's murder mystery novel.

Demi has proved she can pull off straight roles too with a moving performance as a Nigerian woman who is struggling to have a child in To All My Darlings.

It premiered at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, which has moved online last year.

She said: “The role is just so different to anything I have done before. I’d never been asked to play a Nigerian woman before and I didn’t need any convincing to do it once I’d read the script.”

Gary O'Donovan and his brother Paul made the country proud when they won silver at the Rio Olympics back in 2016, it was Ireland's first ever Olympic medal in rowing.

That same year Gary and Paul took home another gold at the 2016 European Rowing Championships.

However taking on a completely different challenge, Gary will be feeling the heat in the kitchen.

Leinster and Ireland Rugby legend Devin Toner will be hoping to impress judges with his dishes.

Measuring 6' 11" in height, he was the tallest player in the Heineken Cup and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. 

Devin confirmed back in March that he would retire at the end of the season.

Toner, who turned 36 in June, has made a record 276 appearances for Leinster, as well as winning 70 caps for Ireland.

The lock said: “There is never a right time I suppose and you would love to keep playing but I feel very lucky to have had the career that I have had and I am able to leave the sport that I love and the club that I love, in good health and on my own terms.

“I have been around the club for long enough to understand that not everyone is that lucky, and I feel that the time is right now to focus on that next chapter."

Watch The Restaurant, Tuesday, 27th September at 9pm on Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Player.

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