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Anne Doyle admits she’s ‘relieved’ over the reaction to her interview with Tommy Tiernan

Anne Doyle has admitted she’s “relieved” over the reaction to her interview with Tommy Tiernan over the weekend.

The former news reader appeared on the comedian’s chat show on Saturday night, and was widely praised on social media.

Speaking to The Star about the reaction, Anne confessed: “I was relieved to be honest. You know yourself, you never really know how something will turn out or how it will go down.”

“It was a great experience and I enjoyed it and I was glad it worked out well. We all shrug our shoulders and say we don’t care but at the same time we do care really.”

“You’d be afraid you made a gobsh*te of yourself,” she joked.

Praising the show’s host Tommy Tiernan, the 69-year-old said: “I’m not much of a viewer but I have watched quite a few of the interviews and he just gets better. He has just got such a great way with him and it is such a peculiar format, but it works.”

“I was always kind of dubious, until I was part of it myself. I was always thinking, does he really not know who is going to be on? But he quite clearly doesn’t. He definitely doesn’t.”

“And they’re very careful, they make sure you’re whipped in and put in a corner, well not quite. They are very careful to maintain that. He seems to have mastered that capacity to just come at a thing with an open mind.”

During her chat with Tommy, Anne opened up about her decision to never get married or have children.

“I wasn’t reared by a Mrs Bennet, it didn’t cross my mind that the best thing I could do was find the best marriage prospect, it just didn’t cross my mind,” she said.

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“I was a freer spirit than that and then I suppose like most people I fell in love here and there along the way…”

“I was never unfortunate enough to fall in love with somebody who was a disastrous human being, quite the contrary, I was always quite fortunate.”

“But I suppose I never really fell in love with somebody to a point where I felt like upturning my life and becoming a part of a married couple,” she confessed.

“Then as I got older, and I suppose my views were quite broad anyway, and quite frankly I didn’t see the point.”

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