Jennifer Zamparelli narrates The Rocky Horror Show musical coming to Cork this month: 'It’s an absolute riot' 

The radio presenter, TV host and entrepreneur talks about Jason Donovan, Dancing with the Stars, Abba, and on-air bloopers

Jennifer Zamparelli. Photograph Moya Nolan

Jennifer Zamparelli wears lots of hats. She’s the mother of two children. She’s also a radio presenter, TV host of the Irish winter cultural phenomenon Dancing with the Stars, screenwriter, comedy actor, entrepreneur (she co-owns a luxury hair salon) and now she’s back treading the boards again in a musical, The Rocky Horror Show, which is touring Irish theatres this month.

“The musical has stood the test of time,” she says. “It’s been going since the 1970s. The creator, Richard O’Brien, also co-wrote the movie, which originally didn’t do so well, but it became a cult phenomenon when it played as a late-night picture show. It garnered this huge following, with people dressing up, attracting people who didn’t fit in, misfits who felt part of something. It was ahead of its time.