{"id":31075,"date":"2025-09-22T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/31075\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:53:13","slug":"comic-jason-manford-gives-glowing-review-of-super-friendly-ni-bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/31075\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Jason Manford gives glowing review of \u2018super friendly\u2019 NI bookshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Salford-born star purchased a number of books from Irish authors and signed the \u201cLegenDerry Chair\u201d at Little Acorns Bookstore. <\/p>\n

He then left a positive review of the shop before heading to Belfast Boat Club for a game of Padel last week. <\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Manford visited the Little Acorns Bookstore in Derry <\/p>\n

Manford praised the staff who work in the shop as \u201csuper friendly and knowledgeable\u201d in a Facebook post, which now has over 1,000 likes.<\/p>\n

\u201cFound this lovely independent bookshop in Derry on Saturday, Little Acorns Bookstore, and met its delightful owner, Jenni,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper friendly and knowledgeable she pointed me in the right direction for a new book! I\u2019d gone in for Stephen King but ended up being convinced to buy some Irish writers: Michael Magee, Seamas O\u2019Reilly, Darach MacDonald, Brian McGilloway, Liz Nugent, Niamh Donnellan, Ellen Ryan and Nicol Heaney.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manford had been in NI for his \u201cA Manford All Seasons\u201d tour.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Manford signed teh LegenDerry Chair at the bookshop\n<\/p>\n

News Catch Up – Monday 22nd September<\/p>\n

The funnyman is known for presenting a range of BBC and ITV programmes including Comedy Rocks, The One Show, Show Me The Funny, A Question of Sport: Super Saturday, Big Heads and Children in Need.<\/p>\n

He was also one of four judges on ITV\u2019s Starstruck.<\/p>\n

His latest tour of the UK and Ireland saw him take to the stage at the Armagh City Hotel on Saturday night before he hailed it as a \u201cfantastic night\u201d describing the venue \u201cwas a dream\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Manford in Armagh <\/p>\n

\u201cFantastic night in Armagh tonight! Not gonna lie when they told me it was in a function room of a hotel I was slightly dreading it\u2026 but this was a dream!\u201d He posted on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cNine-hundred people and I loved them! Real fun folk! Definitely be back next time!<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to William Thompson for very funny support. Back in Belfast October 3rd. Down to Swansea, Taunton, Truro, Bath, Bristol and Tunbridge Wells next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Children in Need presenter also met with Holywood-based comedian Shane Todd who is known for his popular \u201cTea With Me\u201d podcast in addition to his stand-up. <\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Manford and Shane Todd<\/p>\n

The \u2018A Manford All Seasons\u2019 tour will see the performer return to NI on October 3 to do a show at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.<\/p>\n

Embracing the positive review was the bookshop themselves on their own social media.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Manford signed teh LegenDerry Chair at the bookshop\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an honour to have the wonderfully funny and non-fictional character Jason Manford to be the latest to add his signature to one of the Little Acorns Bookstore LegenDerryChairs – the Writers’ Chair!\u201d Said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoasting over 400 scribbles to date between the two old schoolteacher chairs (rescued from a skip) \u2013 [we are] gonna need more legs!<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks so much Jason and for stopping, shopping and stealing by – it was a total pleasure to meet you. Hope you all enjoy the books!\u201d<\/p>\n

Also embracing the publicity brought by Manford\u2019s visit to their venue was Belfast Boat Club.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Manford: Smashing game of padel \ud83c\udfbe at @belfastboatclub another one this afternoon and then off to Derry<\/p>\n

\u201cSmashing game of Padel at Belfast Boat Club, another on this afternoon and then off to Derry,\u201d write Manford on a social media post.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat to welcome comedian Jason Manford to Belfast Boat Club today [Thursday] for a game of Padel. Good luck with show tonight at The Ulster Hall Belfast,\u201d wrote a club spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Salford-born star purchased a number of books from Irish authors and signed the \u201cLegenDerry Chair\u201d at Little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[26536,26534,26537,412,26535,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-31075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-antrim-news","tag-armagh-news","tag-belfast","tag-books","tag-derry-news","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}