Daithi: I’m ready for anything the girls throw at me

no, no… please don’t” before finally saying yes.

Daithi added: “I’ve had no real embarrassing moments but the night of the proposal and the man went out and proposed live on stage and she was saying, ‘No, no, no’.

“And I was like [mortified]. And then she said yes. I thought, Oh, thanks be to Jesus!

“There was a borderline embarrassing moment for the whole organisation.

“They got married and I was invited to the wedding but I couldn’t go as I was working. They are still married.

“People said, ‘That was a great gimmick’ and I said it wasn’t a gimmick at all. It was genuine.” The 42-year-old added he was never lost for words on the show because the energy of the crowd kept him going.

He said: “There are 2,500 people in the audience and that is all feeding up on stage.

“Every Rose that comes out, their people are shouting for her. There is such an air of positivity. You know these Roses so well.

“People ask me if I get nervous. I get nervous generally in life if I’m unprepared. I’m so prepared going on stage at 8pm on Monday.

“If something goes wrong for me it’s on Youtube. If something goes wrong for a bomb disposal expert it is totally different. There are no lives at stake. If you make a booboo they all start laughing and you move on. It’s one person talking to another person.

“I say to all the Roses, ‘Don’t mind the cameras, don’t mind anything, it’s you and I having a chat and you know all the answers. There are no trick questions. We are here to help you’.

“Once they understand that, it’s going to be a bit of fun. You have to enjoy it.”

Daithi, who will celebrate 10 years with the show next year, said he had no plans to quit as he loved it so much.

Meanwhile, the 32 Roses said they were having the time of their lives.

Texas Rose Kimberly Corser, 22, overcame a rare bone condition called Osteochondroma to be in Ireland. The