Full Name Declan Buckley Role Drag queen | Name Shirley Bar | |
Website www.shirleytemplebar.com Similar People Declan Buckley, Davina Devine, Panti | ||
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Declan Buckley is an Irish television personality and drag queen from Dublin, Ireland, going by the persona Shirley Temple Bar. This name is a play on both Shirley Temple and a cultural area of Dublin city called Temple Bar. He also writes a weekly column in national newspaper, The Star on Sunday. He has a business degree. He featured on several documentaries for Irish and British television, an Irish language programme by broadcaster TG4 was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award in 2003.
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A 1997 winner of the Alternative Miss Ireland competition which helped ignite his career, Buckley hosts a weekly bingo and drag show in Dublin's largest gay bar, The George, with fellow drag queens Veda, Davina Devine and Dolly Grip.
In 2001, he caused a stir when Shirley Temple Bar took over the National Lottery gameshow, Telly Bingo, on Irish television. In 2004, Buckley began to present the show as himself.