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Maia Dunphy wrote a brilliant response to a harsh TV review
Laura Hutton / RollingNews.ie Laura Hutton / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie
PRESENTER MAIA DUNPHY has hit back at a television review that accused her and fellow broadcaster Angela Scanlon of producing “lightweight, vacuous, self-absorbed guff” for RTÉ 2.
Writing for The Herald, television critic Pat Stacey was critical of both Scanlon and Dunphy’s recent television series for RTÉ 2, Angela Scanlon’s Close Encounters and Maia Dunphy’s The Truth About.
He described their programmes as the “ultimate Me generation self-indulgence” and used terms like “self-absorbed,” “fatuous” and “wafer-thin” to describe the shows.
He had harsh words in particular for Maia Dunphy’s The Truth About Breaking London, which he called “annoying and objectionable”.
Yesterday Dunphy tweeted the review and wrote that she was “stunned” that it was published.
Many on Twitter were similarly critical.
And yesterday, Dunphy penned a right to reply in which he addressed the review.
She responded to various points raised in Stacey’s review and called him out for referring to her husband in the review.
And she clarified her role in her programmes and hit back at Stacey’s assertion that the subjects at the heart of her documentaries were “wafer-thin”.
Dunphy has received widespread support on social media with Dawn O’Porter even weighing in on the debacle.
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