Like almost each couple right now of yr, Late Late Show presenter Patrick Kielty and Cat Deeley should thrash out their Christmas plans to maintain their households completely satisfied.
In an interview in The Irish Daily Mail’s Magazine, the Dundrum, Co. Down native stated the couple ‘do exactly what most married couples do in the run up to Christmas’.
‘We have the chat about whether we are going to my mum’s or whether or not we’re going to her mum and pa’s.’
Cat – his spouse of 11 years – has household in Birmingham, England, and Kielty stated Christmas dinner there ‘tends to be a smaller gang’.
‘Last year we did Christmas in Dundrum and that was 23 people around the table. ‘I’m – nicely, I wouldn’t fairly say a functioning grown up – however I’m 52 years of age and but we’re nonetheless splitting our Christmases between the 2 households.’
The TV host added that the couple’s two sons, who’re 5 and 7, are ‘bang in the sweet spot for Christmas’ and are ‘mad’ to spend time with their cousins because the household moved from Los Angeles to London in 2020.
‘We wanted the kids to know their cousins and my mum’s not getting any younger, or Cat’s mum and pa both,’ Kielty stated.
‘The boys are mad to see their cousins now – doesn’t matter what time of yr, summer time holidays or Christmas.’
Kielty could have his first stab at presenting the Toy Show this Friday and informed Magazine the long-lasting annual Christmas curtain-raiser is extra broadly identified than is likely to be imagined.
Virgin Radio presenter Chris Evans – who counts Kielty’s Late Late predecessor Ryan Tubridy amongst his colleagues as of this week – harangued the brand new Toy Man for tickets throughout an interview in September.
‘Chris was going, “Oh my God you got the Late Late Show,”’ Kielty stated. ‘Talk to me about the Toy Show. Who’s coming to the Toy Show? Can I come to the Toy Show?’
And he revealed one other unlikely interplay from ‘years ago’ within the US, the place the couple lived for 15 years as Deeley offered So You Think You Can Dance.
‘The head of Fox Studios, who was Cat’s boss on the time, stopped me at one of many recordings for her present to ask me if I used to be from Ireland after which chatted to me concerning the Toy Show,’ Kielty revealed.
‘He wanted to know if I thought it would work in America. It is known a lot further afield than you may think.’
The comic revealed the Toy Show will function ‘a little stunt’ that has already been filmed involving a security harness, and confirmed there can be no musical theme.
Reports from the UK counsel ITV’s This Morning is attempting to lure Kielty to hitch his spouse on the couch – Deeley made her debut on the long-running breakfast present this week to rave evaluations.
Cat Deeley on This Morning. Pic: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock
‘Cat and Pat has a great ring to it, doesn’t it?’ an insider informed the Irish Daily Mail. ‘They are concerning the closest we’re going to get to Richard and Judy.
A married couple internet hosting This Morning once more can be the dream – though to have simply Cat can be excellent, too.’
