RTE star Oliver Callan took a dig at Dermot Bannon and his Room To Improve glass designs.
The comedian was back on air this morning on Nine O’Clock Show on RTE Radio One.
Oliver kicked off the show by issuing a warning for those traveling to work in poor weather conditions.
Ireland faced a “cold and treacherous” start to the day after 5mm of snow hit the country overnight and traffic and travel chaos ensued this morning.
And just hours after thousands of people across the country woke up to a blanket of white snow in their front garden, Met Eireann confirmed that we would be hit by a wicked storm.
Speaking on air, Oliver said: “Ta se cuir sneahcta [it is snowing] in the west and midlands, but Dublin is cloudy and well above freezing. Be careful out there.
“Don’t eat the yellow snow either, that’s important.”
The 43-year-old then took the opportunity to make a joke aimed at Dermot, referencing one of his common housing designs on Room To Improve.
Oliver said: “My heart goes out to the real losers in all of this — the people who let Dermot Bannon turn their houses into gigantic glass boxes.
“We feel for you. Frozen to the bone behind €100,000 worth of windows, let’s face it.”
It was confirmed by RTE back that Dermot will be back on screens in the New Year for the season 16 of the hit architect TV show.
Oliver recently opened up about his relationship with his partner and the factors that have led to their delayed wedding.
Oliver has been with his husband John Lannin since the pair met after a night-out in Dublin in 2012.
The happy couple dated for six years and got “engaged” in 2018, Oliver explained at the time that the proposal was “more of an agreement”.
He told The Independent: “We decided in the summer, went to London and ordered gold signet rings in Hatton Gardens. Gay men used to wear them in Oscar Wilde’s time to signal to each other.
OLIVER’S RELATIONSHIP
“It took months to have them made so when they finally came we told both sets of parents and that made it official. Christmas made it handy to tell most others face to face.”
After their “agreement proposal” it took the pair four more years to actually tie-the-knot.
They got married in October 2022, only recently celebrating their two year anniversary.
Oliver told the RTE guide: “We’d been together for 10 years, but the wedding got delayed because of the pandemic. Isn’t the line that, ‘You should have someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to?’, I have all of that but probably too much to do.”
Despite their decade spent together, the pair are yet to decide if they will bring kids into the mix of their marriage.
Oliver explained: “That’s a conversation I’d have to have with John and, to be honest, I don’t really know how to answer that.”
