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.