Gold, silver and bronzed skin as TV3's celebrity champs line up

THE SOCIAL NETWORK:The director of programming at TV3, Ben Frow, told me that he doesn't like Dublin. He was greeting guests at the launch of TV3's autumn schedule in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield on Thursday morning.

“I think the architecture is fantastic, but it’s just so dirty. I wish there were less tourist shops and more bus-stops, since it’s always raining.”

According to Frow, the past year has been financially tough for TV3. “I could have done without the Euros and the Olympics, frankly, although I did enjoy the Olympics and it did very good in the ratings for the other people.”

Dr Danielle Meagher told me that there are “people making up and then there’s more friendships breaking up” in the new series of Dublin Wives. She was joined by co-stars Roz Flanagan, Lisa Murphy, Jo Jordan and Virginia Macari. There was a lot of pouting, and some of the accents were difficult to decipher, but nothing compared to Greg Lake’s accent. The former Geordie Shore star will appear in Celebrity Salon, which will hopefully be subtitled.

Rosanna Davison is looking forward to the screening of Come Dine With Me, which she had fun filming. The former Miss World is going back to Griffith College, Dublin at the end of September to finish the last year of her Naturopathic Nutrition and Biochemistry post-grad degree.

What we drankMontepulciano d'Abruzzo

Who we spottedJulian Simmons, who will star in Celebrity Salon; Vincent Browne; Caroline Desmond; model Alison Canavan; Eanna O'Shea and Olivia Leahy of Image Now and Olivia's mother, new Xposé presenter Kathleen Leahy; weatherman Deric Hartigan.