Tears to triumph RYAN’S LIFE IS JUST MAGIC
Jul 11, 2021
5 minutes
Fleur Guthrie
It’s not often that Magic Talk’s drive show host Ryan Bridge finds himself lost for words. But when The AM Show fill-in host had just been accidentally outed by co-host Mark Richardson – who joked that Ryan collected “ex-boyfriends” – he knew he only had a few seconds to make a split decision about how to respond on live TV.
“I thought, ‘Well, there’s no getting around that one. People are going to be wondering and I’m going to have to acknowledge it,” says Ryan, recalling how he burst into tears as soon as they went to an ad break.
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“I was overwhelmed. It was shock, but also looking back on it, it was relief,” explains the 33-year-old.
“I had been on telly and radio for
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