Traitors star Paudie Moloney on Dancing With The Stars: ‘This will be my first time dancing sober’

As he prepares to take to the stage on Dancing with the stars, Paudie Moloney reflects on a very unexpected year. By Colin Sheridan

Paudie Moloney in rehearsals for Dancing With The Stars. Picture: Moya Nolan

When Paudie Moloney talks about the last year of his life, he does so with a mixture of disbelief and gratitude, as if it has all happened to someone else. He laughs easily, shrugs off the attention, and repeatedly returns to the same idea: this was never the plan.

“This time last year,” he says, “I was getting on with retirement, even if I was just waiting. Waiting to hear if I’d even gotten on The Traitors. That was it.”