Patrick Kielty obtained a shock message from spouse Cat Deeley earlier than his first look on the helm of The Late Late Show.
Kielty, 52, took over from Ryan Tubridy to host the present for the primary time on Friday night.
Deeley, 46, wished her husband “good luck vibes” in a video posted to her and the The Late Late Show’s Instagram web page.
In the clip, which reveals Kielty watching a video message from Deeley earlier than the present, she says: “Surprise. I know today is your big day.
“I’d love to be there, but I’m holding down the fort here in London at home, but we are sending you all good luck vibes.
“You’ll be brilliant. No doubt about it. I know it’s your dream job and you’ll be great for sure.
“The boys and I wanted to get you something to mark the occasion so we made this for you, hope you like it. Good luck.”
Kielty opens the package deal with a keyring in it from sons Milo and James.
The comic and presenter lately revealed that he had obtained a message from Tubridy earlier than his debut.
Kielty is the fourth common host within the run of The Late Late Show, preceded by Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny and Tubridy.
He is the primary from Northern Ireland and is initially from Dundrum in Co Down.
Kielty mentioned he was not feeling any animosity being the primary host from throughout the border, and that he had been welcomed into his new function.
“I think it’s going to be fun,” he mentioned.
“It’s going to be a bit strange for people up the road to hear the Co Down accent on the show.
“I think what’s interesting is sometimes we talk these things up even more, I think that if you look at all of the identities that we have on this island at the minute, and the progress that we’ve made, I think that – I don’t see it as a thing.
“And I think that the welcome that I’ve had coming into this building, certainly not a thing down here.”
The Late Late Show has confronted controversy prior to now, with a High Court case in 1985 for billing two former nuns who have been lesbians when Gay Byrne was host, and Tubridy’s interview with Tony Blair which occurred the evening earlier than the previous prime minister was pelted with eggs at a e book signing in Dublin.
Kielty mentioned that in his tenure, he wouldn’t draw back from tough discussions, including: “I think the only way you can have a difficult conversation is to be honest, and not to judge.
“Whenever I was doing my documentaries, and visiting the bonfires, and I think with all conversations, you go in and try to see who the human being is you’re talking to, and why they feel the way they’re talking, what their position is, and I think that’s at the heart of it.
“And I think that hopefully any conversation that I’ll have on the show that I’m hosting, I’ll hopefully bring those skills to it.”
A compilation of messages from folks in Kielty’s home city of Dundrum was ready for him, and he mentioned he felt the advantage of assist from his local people.
“That type of stuff… nearly puts you over the edge, like all the other stuff you can kind of cope with, but people in the village and people you grew up with and people who went to school with,” he mentioned.
“I got an amazing wee message sent to me from my best friend’s family, and they were all sea swimming this week, and they were all in the sea jumping up going, ‘Hey, Paddy!’
“It’s nice to know you’ve got so many people in your corner.”
