Total Xposure is a seven-week reality television show broadcast by TV3 in Ireland It involved a nationwide search[1] to find a new presenter for the channel's prime time entertainment magazine programme Xposé.
[2] On 5 July 2010 it was announced that Sean Munsanje would be leaving Xpose at the end of August, a year after he won the reality TV competition Total Xposure.
[3] Total Xposure came about when original host of Xposé, Lorraine Keane, quit the post in early 2009 in the hope of spending more time with her family.
The ten finalists, in alphabetical order, were Simon Atkins, Niamh Buffini, Sharon Clancy, Michael Coughlan, Michelle Forde, Anthony Kelly, Stuart McQuitty, Daniella Moyles, Sean Munsanje and Ruth O'Neill.
Episode 3 (14 July): The contestants were judged on their style for a photo shot for a magazine, they also have to ad-lib a report from a prop.
Sean Munsanje was declared the new host of Xposé live on television after the final results show on 11 August 2009.
[10] The Sunday Independent, writing with one episode remaining, said the show had "fallen decidedly flat", having "promised so much fluffiness and friction" and berated the judges, O'Doherty for "taking to the floor and consuming as much, if not more, airtime than the contestants", Ledden because she "looks and acts matronly" and Lundberg who "has been totally redundant, proffering little to the programme other than an odd grunt".
[13] Pat Stacey, writing in the Evening Herald, declared that the show was not "a case of a dead horse being sliced open and its entrails cynically strung out like garland in order to fill the crater-like creativity gaps in the summer schedule" but "a cunning post-modernist television masterpiece".