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Michelle hangs up Aer
Lingus hat
19.08.08
MALIN model Michelle
Doherty has hung up her air hostess hat after ten
years to concentrate on her skyrocketing career as a
music broadcaster.
The 31 year old has just landed her own alternative
music radio show on Phantom 105.2 to add to her
regular stint as presenter of Channel 6 television's
'Night Shift'. |
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She promptly handed in
her notice to the national airline Aer Lingus after
getting the nod from Phantom where she had
interviewed for the plum job earlier this year.
She donned the radio Phantom radio headphones for
the first time last week in the 10am to 12pm daily
slot.
"I went for the interview at Phantom about three
months ago. I was over in Croatia at a friend's
wedding when I got the call saying I had the job. I
got back on a Wednesday morning and handed in my
notice to Aer Lingus that evening," she told a
Sunday newspaper.
The second eldest child of Ann and Sean Doherty of
Ballysalla, Glengad, Malin, Michelle got her |
break after moving to
Dublin for her Aer Lingus job.
A friend of the Derry designer Jen Kelly, one
Christmas in the late 1990s he took her to a party
for the photographer Barry McCall. Barry said to Jen
‘I’d love to a shoot with your friend’ and the rest,
as they say, is history.
Attempts to contact busy Michelle yesterday
unsurprisingly failed given that she was undoubtedly
rushing across Dublin from the radio station to the
'Night Shift' studio.
However, the former Carn Community School student
gave homegrown Inishowen men a great plug in the
national Sunday paper. While she revealed she is
happily single at the moment and concentrating on
her career, she would eventually like to meet
someone down-to-earth like the fellas she grew up
with.
Fed up with the arrogant men who normally approach
her, she said she would love a "nice, average Joe".
"That's what I would love because that's what I grew
up with. There's no point in me ending up with
somebody I don't feel comfortable bringing home to
my family. At the end of the day, my family is
everything to me. If they don't fit in there, they
don't fit in my life." |
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