{"id":370687,"date":"2026-03-29T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:55:06","slug":"jamie-dornan-say-he-collects-rocks-that-look-like-potatoes-in-snl-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370687\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Dornan Say He Collects Rocks That Look Like Potatoes In SNL UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJamie Dornan<\/a> took over hosting duties from Tina Fey for the second episode of \u201cSNL U.K.\u201d and turned up the bizarro dial a few notches in his monologue. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Irish actor introduced himself as the \u201cstar of \u2018The Fall,\u2019 the Oscar-winning film \u2018Belfast\u2019 and, of course, your auntie\u2019s favorite dreams,\u201d before going on to reveal a somewhat peculiar \u2014\u00a0and apparently entirely true \u2014\u00a0fact about himself.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not just a sex symbol who looks sexy in everything he does, but I am also a guy who collects rocks
that look like potatoes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tDornan then proceeded to wheel out a trolley displaying five such spud-shaped stones, picking each one up to admire it (including one that looked \u201cexactly like a chip\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLook at these gorgeous little things. And no, this isn\u2019t a joke. God knows, I wish it was,\u201d he said, urging people to Google \u201cJamie Dornan potato rocks\u201d to establish that he was \u201ctelling the truth\u201d (which a quick search proved that he was). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSeriously, this is who you want to sleep with?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Fey\u2019s first-ever \u201cSNL U.K. monologue was crashed by celebrity guests including Nicola Coughlan, Michael Cera and Graham Norton, Dornan\u2019s was interrupted by fellow Irishman Chris O\u2019Dowd. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s right, it\u2019s me, your greatest enemy and personal friend,\u201d he said. \u201cCouldn\u2019t help but notice that you\u2019re showing off your spud rocks again.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Dowd then pulled out his own rock and revealed he\u2019d swapped one of Dornan\u2019s collection for an actual potato, a potato he then revealed \u201cwasn\u2019t even Irish!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Irish jokes in \u201cSNL U.K.\u201d \u2014\u00a0which featured in the opening episode with George Fouracre\u2019s musical sketch \u201cWhat Kind of Irish is your Grandad\u201d \u2014\u00a0continued in the next skit in episode 2, also featuring Dornan and song about British holidaymakers tendency to only spend their time in British and Irish themed pubs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Dornan took over hosting duties from Tina Fey for the second episode of \u201cSNL U.K.\u201d and turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,105408,93,61,60,129770,150804],"class_list":{"0":"post-370687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chris-odowd","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jamie-dornan","14":"tag-snl-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370687","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=370687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}