{"id":259408,"date":"2026-01-23T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:06:11","slug":"i-cant-sing-i-cant-dance-but-i-can-retain-stuff-darragh-ennis-of-the-chase-on-becoming-a-tv-star-his-new-tour-and-the-joke-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259408\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t sing, I can\u2019t dance\u2026 but I can retain stuff\u2019 \u2013 Darragh Ennis of \u2018The Chase\u2019 on becoming a TV star, his new tour and the joke that made Bradley Walsh crack up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The game show quiz master tells Kirsty Blake Knox about his motivation to go on the programme, how he had to study for two years to become a Chaser and why he knows nothing about pop culture and cricket<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chaser Darragh Ennis is bringing his tour The Ultimate Pub Quiz to Ireland next month\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ifennis1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chaser Darragh Ennis is bringing his tour The Ultimate Pub Quiz to Ireland next month<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Darragh Ennis first got the call to apply to become a Chaser on ITV\u2019s hit show The Chase, he figured it was a prank. \u201cI thought it was my friends who were arranging some sort of wind-up. But no, it was one of the producers,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ennis first appeared on The Chase as a contestant in 2017. He had been on ITV\u2019s Rebound previously. He came second and missed out on the cash prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game show quiz master tells Kirsty Blake Knox about his motivation to go on the programme, how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9715],"class_list":["post-259408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-blake-knox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}