Fair City star George McMahon has revealed he opened up a family business to ‘put food on the table’ when work on the show went ‘quiet’.
The soap star is bets known for playing Mondo in Carrigstown on the Rte One hit show.
But George said he and his wife Rachel Smyth had to open Glitz Performing Arts stage school in 2008 to have something ‘more solid’ supporting them and their two children.
‘So it’s, yeah, so it’s a labour of love, but it was a labour of necessity at the start, and now it’s kind of, we’ve nurtured it, and it’s become this kind of really cool thing now.
‘So like myself and Rachel, it’s just as well we get on with each other, because we live together and we work together, and we travel to London together with 56 students, and we’re still married,’ he said laughing.
George also told of the public’s reaction when they see him out and about with his own family.
‘It’s funny when we’re walking around in public places, you know, the kids are kind of strange. They’re baffled. They’re like, do you know that person? Like, why are you talking to them? And you know, that kind of stuff.’
Opening up about his latest storyline, George said it’s a side to Mondo he definitely is enjoying exploring.
‘I have to say it’s definitely a side to Mondo that I’ve really enjoyed exploring. And I think it’s his biggest crime up to that date, if you could call it a crime, was, I suppose, the teenage pregnancy.
‘Up to a certain point, Mondo was always kind of viewed as that kind of cheeky, chappy, happy go lucky, kind of guy.
‘And the last few years, I’ve been able to explore kind of a darker side, one, which was kind of the start of the Kira and Victor affair, and then then he went kind through it, like a stalking phase, and kind of like a bit of a breakdown.
‘And I think Mondo is still kind of having his breakdown, and it’s definitely as an as an actor, it’s been really interesting to play that and explore those kind of darker corners to Mondo.’
