'I love going to work': How Irish scientist Darragh Ennis became a celebrity Chaser

Darragh Ennis, the Irish star on The Chase, talks to Colin Sheridan about his unexpected career outside a laboratory, and taking his new live quiz shows on the road

Darragh Ennis's rise to television fame is the sort of story that seems almost scripted

On a weekday afternoon in a quiet corner of a London studio, Darragh Ennis is getting ready to go to work. By “work”, he means stepping into one of the most-watched shows on British and Irish television, where he will — on command — transform into ‘The Menace’, the soft-spoken Irish scientist who became an unlikely household name.

At the moment, though, he’s still in his dressing room, half-chatting, half-prepping, and entirely unfazed by the fact that millions of people will soon be shouting answers at him through their televisions.