Katherine Ryan reveals real reason she quit Mock The WeekSource: High Performance
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00:00 I loved Mock the Week, I loved Dara O'Brien,
00:02 I loved everyone who worked on that show.
00:04 But there came a point in my career
00:05 where I had to stop appearing on that show
00:08 because I knew that there was just one seat
00:10 for a woman at that time.
00:12 And they always put us in the same seat, which is weird.
00:15 They wouldn't even move us around.
00:16 One seat, we know where that seat was,
00:18 one woman on every episode.
00:20 And I knew that if I was sitting in that chair
00:22 that I was preventing one of my female peers
00:26 from having a go.
00:27 And being on that show was life-changing.
00:29 You would receive so much more exposure
00:33 and then people would come to see you on tour
00:35 and it would really draw people in,
00:36 it was a game changer of a show.
00:38 And a lot of people used the word boycott,
00:40 Katherine Ryan, boycott Smock the Week.
00:41 I never boycotted it, I just was realistic about the fact
00:44 that if I want a different woman to be in this chair,