Darragh Ennis rose to fame as a quizzing guru on ITV’s The Chase and its spin-off collection, Beat the Chasers. Now he is made his title in showbiz, the Irish neuroscientist has taken on one other on-screen gig away from the present.
The 44-year-old appeared on the brand new collection of RTE’s journey present, Excessive Highway, Low Highway, which sees pairs of celebrities head to common vacation locations and faraway locations for an epic journey of discovery. However whereas each are headed to the identical location, one enjoys a first-class, luxurious expertise whereas the opposite explores the realm on a good price range.
Darragh’s episode, which aired on Tuesday, noticed the star be part of comic Justine Stafford on a visit to the Greek metropolis of Thessaloniki, the place The Chase star ended up biking across the metropolis on a tandem bike and singing karaoke.
The synopsis for the episode reads: “The Chase’s Darragh Ennis and comic Justine Stafford head off to the sun-soaked metropolis of Thessaloniki, full with Greek historical past, pirate ships, bee farms and tandem bikes.”
© RTE / InstagramTaking to social media, followers praised the banter between Darragh and Justine within the entertaining episode. One particular person wrote: ” Now this episode of #highroadlowroad was good. Beloved @JustineStafford and #DarraghEnnis,” whereas one other added: “Nice present, good juggling abilities and singing voice.”
A 3rd fan penned: “Nice present, liked the banter between ye two,” whereas a fourth added: “The excessive street undoubtedly fits you @bonesgiles. Nice episode.”
© ITVTalking about teaming up with Darragh on the present, Justine instructed RTE: “He is sort of a strolling Wikipedia web page, which is actually useful to have in Greece with all its historical past. I used to be simply there for the craic.”
She quipped: “I convey the craic, he brings the details,” including: “It was a pleasant combo that manner.”
© ITVDarragh is a well-known face on our screens due to his function on The Chase, the place he goes by the nickname ‘The Menace’. After competing on the present as a contestant in 2017, Darragh made historical past in 2020 as the primary participant to change into a Chaser.
Darragh lives in Oxford, the place he beforehand labored as a lab supervisor and researcher earlier than giving up his day job following his TV success.
© Shutterstock“I used to be a lab supervisor and a researcher, however I gave that up,” he instructed the Echo. “The lab that I labored in moved from Oxford to Glasgow and I simply did not go together with them. It was a part-time job and it was a really laborious job to do part-time so I’ve given it up.”
Excessive Highway, Low Highway airs on Tuesdays at 7pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Participant.
