Muireann O’Connell revealed she has availed five-finger discount!
Of course, the presenter’s shoplifting days are long behind her, as she opened up about stealing an item she was too embarrassed to buy as a teen.
Confessing on her new podcast, And Another Thing, with Emma Doran, Muireann shared how she shoplifted a bra when she was teenager as she was too embarrassed to ask her mum.
Saying on the podcast: “What I think I first ever shoplifted, that I remember most in my head was my very first bra because I was too embarrassed to say to my mother, ‘I think I need a bra’.”
Explaining how she wanted a bra after a boy had made comments about seeing through her t-shirt.
Sharing: “Because my white Umbro t-shirt was see through and a boy pointed it out one day and I just wanted to die.”
“I think it was in a pack of three and I took one and I didn’t know what sizing meant and I didn’t know what anything was,” she said.
“My mind was so overwhelmed by the experience because it was like ‘What’s all these numbers and why are my boobs letters? Why is this Morse code?’ I just want something so a boy doesn’t point at me and go ‘nipples!”‘
But it’s safe to say Muireann shoplifting is in the past, with the Limerick woman focusing on her successful presenting career instead.
Muireann recently opened up about presenting Ireland AM, sharing how co-host Tommy Bowe has changed her perspective on making mistakes. Speaking to VIP Magazine, she revealed that it was one phrase from Tommy that changed her entire outlook on things.
“I would normally make mistakes and I would spiral and go down. I would beat myself up for weeks,” Muireann explains at Virgin Media’s spring launch.
“But Tommy has really changed my mindset. It’s been since I started working on the show. He was like, ‘What is wrong with you?’ I was dying on the couch thinking I was going to lose my job, it’s done, it’s over. He was like, ‘It’s done, it’s over. Next play, move on.’
“That’s something that I have in my head all the time now. Even in real life, when I make a mistake and the housemate is about to walk out the door. Next play, move on. I think it’s a beautiful thing, so we’re not spiralling.”
