Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty’s spouse Cat Deeley could also be set to turn into the household’s fundamental breadwinner in her new job fronting This Morning within the UK however she’ll work quite a bit more durable for her paycheck than her husband does for his.
The Birmingham-born presenter is reportedly set to pocket €643,000 (£500,000) a yr when she takes her place on the favored chat present alongside former Good Morning Britain presenter Ben Shepherd.
That’s over two-and-a-half instances the €250,000 Mr Kielty will get paid for every season he presents of The Late Late Show. But the Co. Down man might really feel he has the sweeter deal, given the TV hours concerned in every job.
This Morning’s final everlasting presenters, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, had round 12 weeks off a yr. If Ms Deeley’s contract accommodates related vacation preparations, she’ll be on display screen for 10 hours per week – two and a half hours each Monday to Thursday – for round 40 weeks within the yr. That works out at round €1,600 per TV hour.
Mr Kielty, by comparability, is contracted for 30 reveals of round an hour and 40 minutes. That involves about 50 hours per season, equating to roughly €5,000 per hour on display screen.
Ms Deeley can no less than boast the shorter commute to work. The household home is close to St John’s Wood in London, only a few kilometres from the place This Morning is filmed. And given the very early begins concerned with presenting a stay morning TV present, it’s going to now fall on Mr Kielty to get their two sons prepared for college.
Ms Deeley and Mr Shepherd will hand off the presenting duties to Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond on Fridays – the day Mr Kielty flies to Dublin to host the Late Late, earlier than heading to Belfast on Saturday mornings to current his BBC Radio 5 Live present.
Producers of each This Morning and The Late Late Show have been at one stage rumoured to be trying to lure the couple as a double act. ITV was eager to carry again a Richard-and-Judy really feel to its long-running morning speak present by signing the married couple up as a duo after they have been within the strategy of changing earlier co-hosts Ms Willoughby and Mr Schofield.
But with Mr Kielty eager to turn into simply the fourth everlasting presenter of RTÉ’s 62-year-old chat present, producers needed to look elsewhere for Mr Deeley’s co-host.
And the Late Late host was beforehand moved to scotch strategies that his spouse may be part of him in presenting duties in Ireland, saying the probabilities of Ms Deeley sharing the position at some stage have been ‘type of slim to nothing’. ‘There’s a saying, “Don’t get your money the place you get your honey,”‘ he informed reporters.
Ms Deeley offered a handful of episodes of This Morning final November within the firm of Rylan Clark – reportedly her most well-liked candidate to co-host with earlier than Mr Shepherd was signed up.
But commitments to the US ballroom dancing present So You Think You Can Dance, which she has fronted since 2006, meant that ITV needed to wait patiently to tie down their high candidate. Mr Kielty beforehand visitor offered on This Morning himself, standing in for 4 episodes in 2012.
