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Daniella Moyles seeks out new horizons as she looks to broaden her career
DANIELLA Moyles is not one to be put in a box. Her CV tells the tale of an experienced broadcaster and model with a multitude of media guises with everything from lingerie clotheshorse to reality TV star after her time on the Celebrity Apprentice.
But a little like the Littlest Hobo, she spends just enough time in each pursuit before moving on and come June 6 she will be gone again.
As if you needed any more proof of her wanderlust, just look at the manner in which she decided to leave a much-coveted position co-hosting Spin 103.8’s national breakfast show, to go travelling with her artist boyfriend Mazer.
‘I know! What is wrong with me?’ she says with a laugh.
‘I went into radio because there was so much instability on TV that I just found it endlessly frustrating and I love TV. But for me radio was never something that I really thought I was that passionate about; then it became a really practical option.
‘I just wanted to be in television and I enjoyed it and I had worked on three or four series for RTE. Then I found myself nervously waiting to see if they would be recomissioned or if it wasn’t when would I be working next. So for me TV looked like it was something I wouldn’t be able to make a living out of and radio seemed to be a practical way to get a Monday to Friday broadcast job. I ended up loving it so much and I discovered that there was more depth in radio than in TV in many ways. It was my job to fill that dead air and own it every day and create something that hopefully entertained people for a few minutes. And we excelled up through the ranks of shows really quickly.
‘We started on the graveyard shift on iRadio doing basically middle of the night stuff and form there we went to just after drive time on Spin and six months later we got moved to breakfast. It was a really exciting time and I don’t know if I would have stuck it out if I had just been on that graveyard shift but because we kept progressing and the responsibility kept growing and the show kept getting bigger.’
The 28-year-old had been working with the Dublin station for nearly three years and took over as host of its Fully Charged morning show in 2015. But the model-turned-TV star-turned-broadcaster admitted that the early mornings just proved too much of a deterrent.
‘I loved doing the show but I am not a morning person and I did definitely struggle with the hours.
‘It was an absolutely brilliant job and a really amazing time that I will look back on with such great memories. There was just this itch in me and I had to go.
‘At the moment I have no solid plans as of yet. I am going to Spain first next week and the plan is to spend the summer in Barcelona just to recoup after the leaving the job and moving out of my apartment. Then in a few months’ time I will make a decision as to whether I want to go for a year or whatever else.’
It is a major compliment towards her broadcasting abilities but almost hours after announcing that she was leaving Spin, news broke that TV3 was lining her up to fill the vacant presenting job on flagship show Xposé.
It would have meant knocking her travel plans on the head but Daniella is quick to pour cold water on those reports, insisting that she hasn’t even had a phone call with anyone from TV3, let alone a job offer.
‘My name gets thrown around for that show quite a lot’, she says. ‘I don’t have any interest in it, no. Sorry, I don’t know where the rumour came from that I was joining or even interested in joining the show. Nobody has talked to me about it and I did leave my job to go travelling and that is where my head is at.
‘I am not planning on taking a new position. I don’t plan on considering that job, I am going to travel and take this time to appreciate this time off while I have the means for it and I feel really grateful for that.
‘This is about hitting the reset button and reflecting on all these amazing experiences I have had and to come back hopefully knowing more of myself, rather than being on autopilot a bit.
‘I think it is important to take a minute and decide the direction I am most comfortable with. I still love radio and I would definitely go back to work in it, I just don’t know if it is where I see myself running back to. So I am going to take the year and think. I have a partner and for now the plan is to go travelling with him.’
Of course three weeks is a long time in the world of modelling and as well as being signed up as the face of Bloom in the Phoenix Park, the model has also landed a fairly considerable cosmetics campaign. She was unveiled as the brand ambassador for Vichy Idéalia range, a range of radiance-revealing products clinically proven to transform dull and exhausted skin.
‘I am the Irish ambassador for Vichy Idealia which is their new skincare range for young skin and women on the go. For people who live a hectic lifestyle but still want to look after their skin and want to get that tired look from their face. The whole idea behind the product is that it is convenient and it works for young skin particularly for people who are burning the candle at both ends.’
Despite being the face of one of the world’s leading global skin care experts, the model says she has a practical approach to her own beauty re-gime. She is fully aware that life is easily lived through online filters and says she does not feel under any unnecessary pressure to be ‘dolled up for Instagram’.
‘We have this selfie culture that
I hope to come back knowing more about myself, rather than being on autopilot