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Brian to star as Captain Hook at the Tivoli Dublin. |
|  Brian is taking the starring role as Captain Hook in the Anthem Production of Peter Pan at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin.
This is the first time that Brian has tread the boards, and he is very excited to be playing the part of a sexy Johnny Depp-esque Captain Hook, - a lovable rogue. In the past Brian has always turned down offers to do panto as he loves to spend his Christmas at home in Ireland with his family, however taking on this role in Dublin still enables him to carry on that tradition.
Producer Karl Broderick said casting Brian allowed him to spice up the character of the baddie Captain Hook. He said: "Brian's Hook is 'very spoilt' and self delusional. . . he actually believes he is the good guy. . . after all, isn't he trying to rid Never Never Land of the pesky teen, Peter Pan?"
All the favourite characters including Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Wendy, Hook and regular favourites Sammy Sausages and Buffy will be included in the Christmas time show.
From the Tivoli website
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The Tivoli Theatre welcomes the Cheerios Panto - Peter Pan to Francis St having been a complete sell-out every year at Dublin's Liberty Hall Theatre. This is the first time Peter Pan has been staged in the Republic of Ireland as a Panto and it promises to be jam packed with huge belly laughs, special effects and more 'Oh No He Isn't!!' than you can shake your wooden sword at. All our favourite characters including Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Wendy and of course regular favourites Sammy Sausage and Buffy will be flying into the Tivoli. The ever popular Brian Dowling (Big Brother Winner, TV presenter & Failte Towers) will be starring as a very spoilt Captain Hook so expect tantrums a plenty. It's going to be Ireland's Funniest and most exciting panto! Oh Yes it is!!!!!
Tickets are now on sale for the Panto from the TivoliBox Office or online HERE and runs from Dec 11th - Jan 25th
Other News
September 13th 2008 - This weekend Brian is hosting the Hallmark Healthcare Awards. Heathrow. London.
September 26th 2008 - Brian is hosting the Pride in Northampton Awards on September 26th at Wicksteed Park, Kettering. The annual Pride in Northampton Awards is to recognise the unsung heroes in the Northamptonshire community With eleven different award categories thousands of people who work tirelessly across the county and carry out great work – usually without reward, and often without recognition, have the chance to be honoured. LINK
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Brian thanks his Fáilte Towers supporters. |
|  Let me just say a huge huge huge thank you to everyone who voted for me on the show. I had a fab time and met some cool people.Coming second was amazing and I couldn't have done this, or indeed raised any money for my charity without you guys.
From the bottom of my heart thank you! Brian xxx
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WARNING! |
| WARNING!!
Do not respond to a job application for a prospective presenter with Viva Television which shows Brian Dowling as the contact. This person has been using Brian's identity when replying to prospective presenters and is completely bogus.
Please note Brian has no connection whatsoever with this company.
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Fáilte Towers - Brian is runner-up |
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Well done to Brian for being runner-up on Fáilte Towers.
 The voting is over and the winner of the show was John Creedon whose charity was Our Lady's Hospital Crumlin for sick children, a charity that was close to his heart as he lost his granddaughter at 8 weeks old and spent much of his time at the hospital during those weeks. All the charities must have benefited greatly from the hard work put in by all the celebrities these past two weeks they are all to be applauded..
Brian did brilliantly on the show, he was the one all rounder in there. He worked very hard, spending 8 of his days in the kitchen - he said he never got chance to work in the bar - was the consummate professional when manager, and running reception, but also added the ultimate ingredient necessary to make any reality TV show work, he was entertaining. It was lovely to watch the Brian we all came to love on Big Brother surface once again on a reality show.
 The show however left a bitter taste on the final night, with many fans voicing their disgust at the lack of highlights or chat with Brian when he came out of the hotel in second place. The celebrities who came both 4th - Jennifer, and 3rd - Don all had a chat and their highlights shown on leaving the hotel. Brian was just hurried out of the door, and then it immediately went back to the winner John. After all his hard work on the show it did seem that he was denied any moment of glory, and his fans denied the chance to enjoy his second place victory.
However, Brian is our champion and we salute him, he did a wonderful job of raising money for his charity The Make a Wish Foundation and to come second when his profile in Ireland is nowhere near as high as many of his fellow celebrities was a real achievement. Hopefully this show will bring him a whole new legion of fans.
I am sure that Brian will want to thank everyone who voted for him when he returns home gets a much needed rest.
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Brian in Final of Fáilte Towers |
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CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN!
on reaching the final of Fáilte Towers.
 Tonight Brian reached the final of the show. Both Brian and John go through with the highest votes, with Michelle, Don and Jennifer in the bottom three. Don was saved with the mercy card, and Jennifer won the vote, leaving Michelle to check out of Fáilte Towers.During her leaving interview Michelle championed for Brian to win.If you haven't picked up the phone so far now is the time to do it, as it is believed that the voting is very close between the top few.
Let's make Brian's wish come true to be a winner once again by voting for him. The lines are open now and will close during the show on Sunday night 17th Aug, so please call. PLEASE SUPPORT BRIAN AND HIS CHARITY THE MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION IRELAND, AND GET HIM THROUGH TO THE FINAL BY VOTING.
ROI Call: 1513 71 71 12 or
Text VOTE12 TO 53125
NI/UK call 09016 565 812
Please remember you can vote for Brian from the UK by ringing the Northern Ireland number.
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Make Brian's wish come true. |
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Day 12
Congratulations to Brian for getting through to the semi final of the show on Saturday evening. The show on Wednesday evening was very reminiscent of Big Brother as Fáilte Towers had a special delivery of some live chickens. Brian and Don were asked to collect the new delivery, and with Brian not having a clue as to what awaited him, he was shocked at the sight that greeted him, a field with dozens of chickens running and flapping around. Brian told Don of the fear he had of birds, their flapping wings and claws. I know most Brian fans will have heard him relate on a number of occasions his pigeon story, so know the fear he has of birds. Knowing Brian's fear Don chased him around Fáilte Towers with one of the chickens, reminiscent of a Benny Hill sketch, eventually trapping him in the dining room. At which point Brian threw himself to the floor dragging down Jennifer with him as protection. Don proceeded to stand the chicken on Brian's head, there was much squealing, and breathlessness from Brian until Jennifer told Don enough was enough. On getting up from the floor Brian told Jennifer that it was the claws he disliked, as they reminded him of Jurassic Park.
That wasn't the end of it for Brian as a few minutes later he was asked to remove one of the dreaded lobsters from the tank to be cooked. He bravely took on the task, and even though disliking the sea creature immensely, felt sorry that it was going to cooked and thought they should say some words before it met it's death in a pan of boiling water. After the lobster was cooked and dissected by Sean, Brian proclaimed he would never be able to feel the same watching The Little Mermaid.
Another highlight of the show on Wednesday was a massive row. Starting with Sean and John forcefully removing the crew from filming a tearful Michelle, Jennifer got embroiled into the row by saying that Michelle was just tired, Sean didn't agree with this and started to trade heated words with Jennifer. As it started to reach boiling point Brian intervened, saying that he thought that they shouldn't all be turning on one another. Later in the show Michelle had a row with Don over how long he took over his breakfast, saying he should have been 5minutes but had taken 30minutes.
It was a shock to find Sean in the bottom three with Michelle and Jennifer, as each night he had constantly been the one sent back to work first. Michelle was saved by the mercy card from Derry and when it came to the vote Sean was the one sent home with Jennifer being the one sent back to work.
Now it is coming to crunch time with the semi final on Saturday night 16th August. We know that Brian would love to be in the final not only for himself as he always gives 100% to everything that is thrown at him, but mainly because the longer he stays the more he earns for his charity The Make a Wish Foundation Ireland.
Please keep the votes rolling in for Brian so that he makes it to the Final on Sunday.
PLEASE SUPPORT BRIAN AND HIS CHARITY AND GET HIM THROUGH TO THE FINAL BY VOTING.
ROI Call: 1513 71 71 12 or
Text VOTE12 TO 53125
NI/UK call 09016 565 812
Please remember you can vote for Brian from the UK by ringing the Northern Ireland number.
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Brian in the bottom 3 tonight! Please Vote! |
| Day 11
It was a shock to find Brian in the bottom three for votes tonight along with Michelle Heaton and Donna & Joe. The three of them heading into the Oliver Plunkett room to face the judges.
Giving an overall view of the bottom three judge Sammy Leslie said that they were all working hard and had reached a stage where it was difficult for the judges to start picking them off one by one. Judge Derry Clarke said this was a night he dreaded as he had 4 people in from of him who he wanted to stay. To Brian he said 'the first day you arrived you got stuck into it, you haven't moaned, groaned or complained and everything you have done you have done really well.' Bibi Baskin said 'Brian I just can't believe you are here.'
 It was then the time for the celebrities to plead their case. Brian said .."I don't really know what to say. I have had a great time, I think I have done really well. We had the fake wedding as manager I thought I handled that fantastically I think..I was head chef for two days with no complaints and I am head chef again today.I am really enjoying it, I have had a great time, and if I have to go then I'll have no problem."
It was then passed to Sammy to hand out the mercy vote to the person she thought should go back to work. She said 'I am in this lucky position of having to save someone and it is a tough call, but this one person to me could actually go quite far in business if they wanted to, and to make their wish come true the person I am saving tonight is going to be Brian.' Brian looked shocked and said 'Oh good god! Thank you so much! Oh God! Thank you!' and with that he returned to work. Derry opted to check out Donna and Joe Sammy opted for Michelle to go and Bibi with her deciding vote and voted out Donna and Joe.
The next eviction is on Wednesday night 13th August and Brian really does need your votes to take him out of the bottom three to allow him to continue until the weekend..
PLEASE SUPPORT BRIAN AND HIS CHARITY AND GET HIM THROUGH TO THE FINAL BY VOTING.
ROI Call: 1513 71 71 12 or
Text VOTE12 TO 53125
NI/UK call 09016 565 812
Please remember you can vote for Brian from the UK by ringing the Northern Ireland number.
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Support Brian and his Charity! |
|  Well done to Brian! He has survived a week in Fáilte Towers where he has worked in the bar, kitchen, reception and spent 2 days as manager. He has been professional, diligent, compassionate and above all entertaining throughout the whole week. By doing this Brian has raised valuable funds for his charity The Make A Wish Foundation Ireland, a charity that has one aim to grant the wishes of children aged between 3 and 18 years living with a life-threatening illness. The charity enables children who are granted wishes to have a dream come true that they can share with their close family, a day that will long live in the memory of all the family. By voting for Brian in Fáilte Towers you are helping to give these very special children a magical experience by granting their wish.Here are the numbers to ring or text.
ROI Call: 1513 71 71 12 or
Text VOTE12 TO 53125
NI/UK call 09016 565 812
Day 7/8
New manager of Fáilte Towers Brian had the unenviable task of choosing 3 people to send for a day of pampering to a luxury hotel. He was given the option to take up one of the places himself but said as manager he thought he should stay, and sent Don, Jennifer and Evelyn for a chance to recuperate and have a day spent in luxury. With the remainder of the staff having a day off from work Brian, Donna, Michelle and Joe head for the village, calling at the bookmakers to check on their betting odds, calling at the local supermarket, where Brian offered to man the till for them, and finally stopping off at the local pub.
The next day it was back to work, and it was a very busy day looming for Brian with a wedding to co-ordinate, which he did very efficiently with the help of his staff. However there was a small mishap when Joe accidentally spilling a glass of red wine on the bride's dress. Brian informed the bride and her mother that Michelle had kindly offered the bride the loan of one of her dresses for the remainder of the evening, whereupon the brides mother declined saying she didn't want her daughter wearing a slapperish dress. Brian was indignant at this remark and politely but forcefully told the mother he wouldn't have one of his staff spoken about in that way. However all was revealed the following morning when the celebrities realised it wasn't a real wedding but a fake one with actors and actresses. One of the celebrities Evelyn didn't take kindly to the duplicity and down tools refusing to serve breakfast to the guests, so other members of the staff took over the role.
In the bottom three were Michelle, Donna and Joe and Patricia. Donna and Joe were saved with the wild card, and Michelle saved in the vote with Patricia leaving.
Day 9/10
Brian's second day as manager brought the shock of judge Derry checking in for the night. Everyone was on alert and fortunately he didn't seem to be able to find any fault with the accommodation offered. Later Brian was dealing with a difficult customer in the dining room who was constantly finding fault with the food he ordered. Michelle was getting stressed in the kitchen and threatened to leave when a salmon cake mixture disappeared. It was then revealed that the difficult customer was in fact Michelle's boyfriend. Brian led a very worried and unaware Michelle to the restaurant to meet who she thought was an angry diner to find her boyfriend there to give her a hug.
In the celebrity lounge they found they had some new guests, two tanks of lobsters. Sean thought it was fun to remove one of the live lobsters and chase Brian around the room eventually putting the fishing smelling creature on Brian's head much to his disgust.
At 2.30am there was another surprise for the guest with the fire alarm going off, supposedly set off by one young male guest. Brian was however very perturbed when they were all assembled and told the reason for the alarm, as nobody had listened to him saying that there was a child in one of the rooms that could have been very scared.
It was announced the following day that there would be a new manager helping out, much to the disappointment of Jennifer and Brian it wasn't a hunky new man but judge Gerry who was going to take over the role. After a dispute with John over the servicing of a room there was a staff meeting called where John, Gerry and once again Don had words, at the end it was announced that Evelyn would take over as manager next.
In the bottom three for voting were Don, Evelyn and Jennifer, after pleading their case, which found Don on his knees begging to be kept on the show, Jennifer was saved with the wild card. Finally with 2 votes to one Evelyn was the one to leave.
Lines are open again for voting with the next person leaving on the show on Tuesday evening 12th Aug.
PLEASE VOTE FOR BRIAN AND HELP HIS CHARITY
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