Celebrity architect Dermot Bannon is set to get roasted by Majella O’Donnell and Nuala Carey in the final episode of Room To Improve on Sunday night.
The Room To Improve star will air the final episode of his hit series tomorrow night (SUN) on Rte One and will see Majella and Nuala ask Dermot the difficult questions nobody has ever been able to ask him.
And Dermot reveals the wife of the Donegal crooner gets stuck into him about some of the best moments of the home renovation show in a special episode that will end the series.
He revealed: “It’s a look back over the last couple of years but we’ve gathered people who Room To Improve who has been a part of their lives.
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“We take a look back and have a discussion on Room To Improve in a Gogglebox standard… but it’s them grilling me and asking all the questions that the audience have ever wanted to ask me, the really tough ones.
“I haven’t seen it, but I just remember squirming for most of the day in the chair.
“Majella O’Donnell had a really good go at me most of the time. I don’t think it is a look back, I think it’s more like called constructive criticism.
“It’s the really difficult questions that really everyone wanted to ask about Room To Improve and you know Majella O’Donnell, she has no filter. She didn’t (hold back).”
Dermot also revealed a show secret that many viewers might not have noticed throughout each series.
“Sometimes at the end of the show, people don’t have enough furniture to fill the room and they might borrow a bit from here there and everywhere.
“Majella was watching the show back and saying, ‘that’s borrowed, that’s borrowed, that’s borrowed’. She was looking for the thread between all the episodes because she was in it, so she was looking at it from an insider and spotting some of the stuff.
“The budget talk – obviously the most difficult scenes we ever filmed was Daniel and the budget so there is a bit of a behind the scenes on that.
“It’s different. I get to see every episode of Room To Improve before it goes out bar this one.
“I’m sh***ing it. All I remember on the day was me squirming in the chair saying please make this stop and I don’t know how that will translate into a TV programme.
“In a way, do you know in American TV they do a roasting? It’s like that,” he said laughing.
And as another series finishes, Dermot is clear about Room To Improve’s future.
“It is coming back. We’re filming another episode. The Blessington episode – that house is going to be on the new series, and we have two others that we’re nearly finished filming.
“We were making seven but slots for TV programmes are precious on television. We were given five slots, so we have another three episodes that were nearly made. They will go out as part of a new season.”
And the Dubliner said he doesn’t want to rest the show just yet, saying Irish people still have a great appetite from home renovation shows, the same as our love for cookery shows.
“I’m part of it… if I was going to rest a show, I wouldn’t be resting my one. It was the first Irish designs programme. We’ve been going around the blocks for at least 15 years and we’ve had 13 series, so I feel like the grandad of them all.
“I’ve been just around a long time.
“It’s like cooking programmes, there is a huge amount of cooking programmes on, and they’ve been going for decades, I think it is because we all do it, we all do stuff to our homes.
“In the same way we feed ourselves and we love cooking, we’ll always do up our homes, so I think it is not the same as talent shows because not all of us are going to be singing in talent shows.
“I think home renovations shows hopefully will be a staple from here on in because it is something we all do.
“I do hope it doesn’t saturate with the amount but there seems to be a big appetite with the amount of shows. I watch them all as well myself,” he added.
Room To Improve airs on Rte One and Rte Player on Sunday night at 9:30pm.
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