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Smarty Devil no longer in Disguise

by Whaleoil on January 24, 2011

Martin Devlin, the smarty devil in disguise, has now outed himself.

Sports broadcaster Martin Devlin has outed himself as the “celebrity” in the Auckland disorderly-behaviour name suppression case.

Devlin, 46, a sports talkback host on Radio Live, had his name suppression lifted in the Auckland District Court today and released a statement saying he had acted like “a right plum” during the incident.

He said his family had missed the Waiheke ferry on the morning of December 29 because he had been watching a soccer game.

“As a result the atmosphere was a little frosty between me and my wife.”

He said his wife mistakenly drove off from the ferry terminal on Quay St, central Auckland, with his bag in the boot of the car.

He stopped the car in the middle of the road and “once stationary, for some inexplicable reason, I sat on the car’s bonnet”.

“It was stupid and I apologise.”

If he had done that right at the start then he wouldn’t be the news. He should stop getting PR advice from the missus.

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  • reid

    I sat on the car’s bonnet

    Yeah sure, and talked quietly one assumes or possibli didn’t talk at all…

    In yesterday’s Herald on Sunday in another unofficial report, the newspaper claimed we were having a “blazing row”. Those reports were incorrect. In fact, we weren’t actually talking to each other.”

    Yeah sure. So here you were, sitting on the bonnet of your own car, not saying anything at all, and the cops come along and arrest you for disorderly behaviour. Boy your spin doctor must be really cheap.

  • abjv

    They can both be correct if the “blazing row” was in sign language. Arguing in sign language can be easily be misconstrued by a passing cop as physically threatening everyone with a punch up, and it could be totally silent.

    • http://angryvictim.gotcha.co.nz/ Lauren Order

      And certain signs can be easily misinterpreted in isolation. I thought I had got ‘the bird’ from a deaf guy once or twice while he was struggling to be understood. Spelling out difficult words. My grasp of ISL is poor, but improving, as I find the time to work on it. Embarrased the hell out of me at the time. Must sign up (no pun intended) on that polytech night class.

  • seadog

    Well done WOBH – it is about time this stupid name cover up stuff was done away with.
    Smarty Devil in disguise was hardly a celebrity and certainly not a household name.
    What is a ‘celebrity’ anyway? Must be just about anyone by now……….. Do politicians count (or can they!)

    Keep up the good work, don’t let the bastards grind you down. Keep them honest – if that be at all possible…………..

  • scanner

    Great, so now the whole world can rest easy, it wasn’t celebrity after all, it was just a jumped up little arsehole with a big opinion of himself.
    Everyone now needs to watch “Game of Two Halves” and take note of the companies that advertise within the show and actively boycott them, even going to the extent of ringing the companies and telling them why you wouldn’t use their product/service.
    Nothing like a dose of commercial reality to yank the airheads at TVNZ back into the real world.
    As for Devlin I would have thought if you were that close to the bottom, any publicity would have to be good publicity? FFS most people have never heard of him.

    • topbloke

      It hasnt been on for about 2 years so watching it will be difficult.

  • andrewcarrot

    Radio Sport asked punters today: Should name suppression laws be amended? In fact the question was viewable on every page of the station’s website – including on MD’s biop page! Subtle. And all before he announced his guilt and shame. Not so subtle.

    • topbloke

      It wasnt on RadioSport – it was on RadioLive’s website.

  • mediatart

    How come Whale you were pointing the bone at TVNZ? Apart from a small gig during the Soccer hes not a TVNZ celebrity?
    Were you given the wrong steer and had someone else about 46 in mind ?

    • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

      Come on tart, who is Martin married to? I thought you were connected?

    • hagues

      Game of Two Halves was on TV1 for many years, Devlin was the host.

      • http://angryvictim.gotcha.co.nz/ Lauren Order

        Only after Veitch got the boot?

        • hagues

          Ahh yes sorry he hosted after Veitch stopped, but he was a team member for years.

    • http://angryvictim.gotcha.co.nz/ Lauren Order

      ‘Pointing the bone’? Bzzzt. Wrong colour.

    • animalmother

      Veitch and Devlin?! They certainly do pick them on that show. Still, Mrs Devlin can rest easy she didn’t end up with a steel plate in her back after the argument.

    • Agent BallSack

      Pretty sure Dancing with the ‘Stars’ was TVNZ funded tart. Game of Two Halves, TVNZ funded. a quick Wiki search would provide the relevant details.

  • peterwn

    IMO the police need a kick in the arse over this. There was IMO absolutely no point in charging him, thus wasting police and court time when the police ought to have been dealing with *real* criminals.

    • deejay

      With the sort of behaviour he displayed, in the middle of of the street, in the middle of auckland, and with family violence in the media, then there would be serious problems for our nation had the police had not have acted, if md had been at the top of the stairs instead of britomart square, who knows how this story could have changed.

      Martin Devlin is no celebrity, he is however a dickhead

      • topbloke

        Were you there to witness it all were you?

  • abjv

    Spotted in the Herald…
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10702779

    It lists 5 TV ‘celebs’ from the same show that have got into trouble. Did anyone else spot that there’s a name missing from the list of those that have “bounced back from the brushes with personal disaster”?

  • jasonu

    Martin who???