Deep Diving with Eoghan McDermott

Joe McElderry won the X Factor in 2009 when nearly 20 million people watched him take the crown. Within 18 months he had released an album been dropped, been outed as gay and already started making plans to move on, under the unforgiving glare of the media spotlight. Here we talk that journey, the press, body shaming and re-inventing himself as a new type of star. 

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The Script have sold over 35 million albums. Drummer Glen Power navigates the rise of the band and reconciling his own personal demons before they cost him. 

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Bradley Simpson is lead singer of multi-platinum band The Vamps. He chats to Eoghan about managing ego, money, fame, mental-health and nose-bleeds! 

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Derry Girls is a cultural phenomenon. Focused on the lives of four teenage girls growing up in 1990's Northern Ireland, it navigates their teenage tribulations against the backdrop of sectarian violence. Nicola Coughlan plays Clare, a nerdy and uptight swot, who also happens to be gay. Nicola talks about her own struggles personally, professionally and mentally before the show changed her life, as well as her activism, body-shaming and her late father Martin. 

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