Marty Whelan wrote autobiography in breaks on ‘Winning Streak’

RTÉ presenter Marty Whelan revealed that he wrote his autobiography, That’s Life, while Winning Streak was on its surprise six-month break this year.

“About January time, when Winning Streak wasn’t on, I took to that [writing], I took to filling in the weekends so I did it on the weekends, and obviously during the week sometimes, but from January. It took six months pretty much to do it, I researched it myself,” said the 59-year-old presenter.

Last January, Nicky Byrne’s Million Euro Challenge took over the Saturday night game show slot on RTÉ One, with Winning Streak being moved to the summer. The Million Euro Challenge failed to attract the 300,000 viewers that Marty and his co-presenter Sinead Kennedy enjoyed and, in a role reversal, Winning Streak will now continue into the autumn, replacing Byrne’s show.