TV personality Daithi O’Se has opened up about his friendship with co-presenter Maura Derrane.
Hosting RTE’s Today Show for close to ten years together, Daithi says that although the two are most certainly friends, they don’t feel the need to live in one another’s pockets outside of working hours, unlike some TV co-hosts.
“When I finish the run in May, I won’t speak with Maura again until a week or so before we go back on air in September,” he told the RTE Guide.
Explaining that they both enjoy their own free time away from one another, he continued: “We are never in each other’s pockets and we’ve never pretended to be best friends, hanging out with each other after work and all that”
“The only time we spend together is the time in rehearsal or live on the show and that has worked for both of us.”
Maura agrees with this sentiment, and believes that the key to their good on-screen relationship is the similar upbringings they had in rural Gaeltacht Ireland.
“We are very different but come from similar backgrounds”
“In a way we are both messers and he could say anything to me and I wouldn’t be offended.”