The character of May started life as a caller to a radio show hosted by Eamonn Holmes in 1987. <\/p>\n
“Downtown radio asked [Eamonn] if he would do a couple of weeks as a guest presenter and he was just looking people to ring in and he asked me,” John recalls. <\/p>\n
He remembers how on his first appearance May did not yet have a second name so when Eamonn asked for one he played for time while flicking through a newspaper.<\/p>\n
He said he across the name of Olcan McFetridge, an Antrim hurler, “and that was her started”.<\/p>\n
Now, nearly forty years on and at the age of 72, John said he has no intention of quitting any time soon. <\/p>\n
“If the punters want me and the part is there for me and I’m fit enough to take it.<\/p>\n
“A couple of years ago I had a very bad back and I just got me second knee done so I’ve two titanium knees. <\/p>\n
“But then somebody said you couldn’t be from north Belfast and not have your knees done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The character of May started life as a caller to a radio show hosted by Eamonn Holmes in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-327950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}