Martin Devlin: On playing the game...

Interview – 2011

Martin Devlin’s first screen appearance involved playing a policeman in a film shot in Taranaki — he can’t remember the name of it, but is fairly sure it wasn’t a hit. Following success as a radio broadcaster, Devlin made his first foray into television via a rugby panel for Sky TV, before hosting House of Football. He became a familiar TV face as part of mad-cap game show Game of Two Halves, beating Peter Urlich to finish second to last on Dancing with the Stars, and hosting World Cup rugby and footage coverage on TV One.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Devlin talks about:

His first TV appearance
His favourite memories from House of Football
Why he chose to compete on Dancing with the Stars
His experiences on the show
Behind-the-scenes antics on Game of Two Halves
How he landed the job hosting coverage of the Football World Cup
His impressions of his role hosting Rugby World Cup 2011 coverage for TV One

This video was first uploaded on 1 November 2011, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing - James Coleman

What's the worst thing that can happen: it's a dinner party story in six weeks, and you make a dick of yourself on TV. Well I've done that for ten years with Game Of Two Halves, so I thought 'I'll do it'.
– Martin Devlin on deciding to compete on TV show Dancing With The Stars

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