‘Apathy makes me angry about Ireland’ Dermot Bannon
Dermot Bannon has been on television, presenting Room to Improve, since 2007. He has never got used to the attention. “I feel like a fake celebrity,” he says. “People want to know all about me and I think: ‘Jesus, I’m boring as f**k!’” His friends affectionately call him Bob Monkhouse. “They constantly take the piss out of me for being ‘famous’.” They were out one night in a restaurant when somebody asked Bannon for a selfie. He took the selfie and went back to the table. “My friends went to town on me. They would never let me get away with anything. ‘Get Bob Monkhouse his f**king dinner over here!’” The 52-year-old finds his relationship with fame just as hilarious. Though it has sometimes impacted him psychologically. Credit to : Irish Independent