'Tadgh is a real GAA head' - Tipperary's Una Healy beams about kids on Ireland AM

Tipperary's Una Healy appeared on Ireland AM this week to talk about her challenging stint on Netflix's new show Celebrity Bear Hunt, her sport mad kids and her blossoming relationship with ex Spice Girl Mel B.

The Thurles native spoke with presenters Tommy Bowe and Muireann O'Connell about Celebrity Bear Hunt, which she describes as "Big Brother meets The Hunger Games", which is streaming now on Netflix, reassuring them that "it's not a film set...it's real".

The show follows 12 celebrities as they try to evade getting captured by Bear Grylls, navigating through pits in the jungle of Costa Rica and trying to avoid snakes and spiders.

Muireann said Una was "doing Tipperary and Ireland proud", but was eager to know how she got on with the other celebrities, namely, Mel B from the Spice Girls.

"Were you star struck by any of them?", asked Tommy, and Una admitted "it took a while to get used to it...I was pinching myself". 

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A self-confessed extrovert, Una admitted that she became quite shy and a little intimidated by the "big personalities" in there, including Boris Becker and Danny Cipriani, but once the numbers whittled down as the show went on, she was a lot more comfortable.

Una also said how she got on well with everybody once she got to know them and Mel B "is really sound", and the two bonded over their experiences of being in a girl band.

On a possible reunion of The Saturday's, Una said she would love to, but confessed to Mel B that it's usually her pushing a comeback in The Saturday's group chat but gets "tumbleweeds" back, to which Mel B laughed and told her not to worry as she was kicked out of the Spice Girls group chat.

When asked about her kids, and whether they thought she was cool, Una lights up and laughs saying "they don't care". but her daughter, Aoife, recently got excited that her song Ego was trending on TikTok, but her son Tadgh is more interested in GAA.

"Introduce him to a Tipp player and he'll be like aahhhh", said Una who revealed they will be going to Tipp v Clare match later this month where they will get to meet all of the players which will be his "dream come true".

When asked of her daughter is into singing, Una says she's way more into her hobbies such as volleyball and horse-riding, but that "they are just enjoying themselves, I'll always support them in whatever they want to do, I'll never push them, I'll never be one of those pushy parents but at the same time I want to nurture them."