On 2 August 2008 , Donna and Joe appeared as a couple on the Irish reality television show '' Fáilte Towers '' broadcast on RTÉ One . The show involved celebrity members taking on different jobs each day as part of the staff of a large country hotel in Ireland . While there they encountered , among other people , fellow Eurovision entertainer , Dickie Rock , as well as a fake wedding , a nudist group and a set of Japanese tourists before " checking out " after being chosen to leave over '' Big Brother '' winner Brian Dowling and former Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton . Whilst in the hotel the pair managed to raise over € 30,000 for their chosen charity Aware , an Irish voluntary organisation providing support to through depression . Media coverage of the pair 's time in '' Fáilte Towers '' was scathing , with one report saying : " By definition , this type of reality TV is nothing more than a springboard for wannabe celebs who have somehow scraped onto the bottom of the fame ladder " . Don Baker , a fellow contestant on the show , asked Donna to perform a concert with him at the Helix on 18 September 2008
Eurovision
Eurovision Song Contest 1966
Donna and Joseph McCaul