Michela Carew-Murphy
Michela Noelle Maria Isabella Carew-Murphy (born 15 November, 1987), is an Irish socialite and reality TV star best known as the breakout star of TV3's "Diary of a Debutante". She is most commonly known as Mica (pronounced Mee-ka).
Family and early life
Mica grew up between Brookline, Massachusetts and Sherkin Island in County Cork, Ireland. She is the daughter of restauranteurs Siobhan Carew and Matthew Murphy. She is also the granddaughter of Matt Murphy, founder of the Sherkin Island Marine Station, great-granddaughter of Noel Murphy, former Irish Rugby Union international, coach, and president and grandniece of Noel Murphy, former Irish rugby international, British and Irish Lions player and IRFU president. Mica attended school in the United States before completing her Leaving Certificate at The King's Hospital School in Palmerstown, Co. Dublin. She attended both University College Dublin and the London School of Economics before returning home to Cork to attend University College Cork.
TV and media
Mica was first broadcast on Irish Television as 'the surprise star' of TV3's docu-drama "Diary of a Debutante". Dubbed 'the girl you loved to hate' by the Irish Independent and the speculation of many Irish blogging sites such as Bloggorah, Boards.ie, and the Chancer referring to her as a 'southside party legend and bona fide Celtic Tiger 2.5 cultural icon'. Due to the overwhelming success of the show, TV3 commissioned Paradise Pictures1 to do a follow-up programme 18 months later which aired as the finale to the new "Diaries Of..." series that came AbOUT after the success of "Diary Of a Debutante". Mica also gave InterViews with TV3's Ireland AM, a selection of Irish Radio broadcasts and worked as a frequent guest on RTE's Seoige and O'Shea. She was also asked to speak on RTE's The Late Late Show as a guest of Pat Kenny's to give the youth's perspective on underage drinking. She currently serves as PRO of CTN, Ireland's only student run television and media network.
She has recently befriended the infamous Fethard socialite Michelle "Modzilla" O Donnell and along with her has rumoured to have been involved in a number of compromising scandals in the Cork area.She is trying to make a break through into the VVE circle.
Fallout of the show
She was said to have been more than a little bit miffed about the way she was portrayed as a spoilt party-girl, who was filmed being kicked out of her debs at the end of the documentary.
Along with her best pal, young starlet Katie Cullen of Fair City fame, Mica raised eyebrows with her cushy lifestyle and trademark phrases like OMG for 'Oh my God', her talk of 'grade-A-banter' and calling strangers 'randomers.'
She received a TIRADE of harsh comments after the programme aired and ended up leaving her first-year course in UCD and quitting her favourite party haunts in Dublin for the delights of London. She subsequently battled bulimia and chronic hairloss forcing her to wear a wig.
Discussing the show online, satirical website Blogorrah described her as the "poster child for the Celtic Tiger" and described her as "a D4 diva with way too much money, time and access to cosmetics."