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Extra.ie
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
WATCH: Fearne Cotton shares rare footage from 'OG Love Island' alongside Patrick Kielty
Fearne Cotton took a walk down memory lane this week as she reminisced on her time hosting Love Island alongside Patrick Kielty. Yep, you heard that right, the hit ITV show was originally presented by Patrick Kielty and Kelly Brook, with Fearne Cotton taking over as female host in the second series in 2006. The first series aired in the summer of 2005, and it was won by Jayne Middlemiss and Fran Cosgrave. The second series began in July 2006, and was won by Bianca Gascoigne and series one finalist Calum Best. Fearne Cotton took a walk down memory lane this week as she reminisced on her time hosting Love Island alongside Patrick Kielty. Pic: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock Now, 20 years on from the original series, Fearne has taken to social media to share some footage with fans. 'Who remembers Love Island the first time round? I'm talking 20 years ago (how is that possible?)' the post began. 'Once again, here I am sounding like I'm in Oliver Twist with the lovely @patrickielty in Fiji.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fearne (@fearnecotton) 'The games were basic, the romance was PG and there wasn't a bikini thong in sight,' she joked. 'Anyone remember the Bianca Gascoigne, Callum Best, Leo from the Streets love triangle? Another life time ago, but what a hoot.' The footage sees a baby faced Patrick and Fearne hosting the now beloved show, with fans going wild in the comments. 'This was one of my favourite ever shows, I can hear that Jem theme song now!! Xxx' one user wrote. Yep, you heard that right, the hit ITV show was originally presented by Patrick Kielty and Kelly Brook, with Fearne Cotton taking over as female host in the second series in 2006. Pic: Andres Poveda 'I went into labour on 20th June – managed to hold off going to hospital until I'd seen the final!! Absolutely loved this series,' another laughed. 'I keep mentioning this to people and they don't believe me that it ever happened! We so need it to be available on streaming services! xx' a third added. Ahhh the nostalgia of it all!
The Irish Sun
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
RTE star who's ‘closest thing to Gay Byrne' tipped as next Late Late Show host if Patrick Kielty doesn't renew contract
RTE star Oliver Callan is an early front-runner to take over as host of The Late Late Show from Patrick Kielty. The top chat show job will become available if 4 Patrick Kielty is approaching the last year of his three-year deal as Late Late Show host 4 Oliver Callan is the early front-runner to become the next Late Late Show host 4 Patrick took over the role from former host Ryan Tubridy The Co Down man will be in the last year of his three-year deal when the programme resumes in September. Patrick, married to And whatever he decides, Montrose insiders believe comedian Callan, 44, could be a possible contender to host the One told READ MORE ON LATE LATE SHOW 'Oliver can talk about the 'If Patrick hasn't made up his mind about renewing his contract, RTE have the perfect Late Late host in the wings.' His stint is nearly two months shorter than the previous host, Asked what he planned to do when his €250,000-a-year Late Late deal runs out next year, Kielty told us last July: "Renewing my contract is something I hadn't thought about. Most read in The Irish Sun "I love doing the show and if there was a chance to keep doing it, it would be nice but you are not in charge of these things and you never know what happens in the world of entertainment." The TV presenter also has to consider wife Cat's career — with the 48-year-old now a co-host of RTE viewers in stitches at John Giles' cheeky one-word answer to Patrick Kielty on The Late Late Show And A station insider told us: 'Patrick got RTE through the Ryan Tubridy scandal. They are very grateful to him for that. But Oliver is on the rise.' 'EXTREMELY FORTUNATE' RTE told The Irish Sun they are 'extremely fortunate' to have Patrick as the Late Late's host, adding: 'We look forward to another great season with him at the helm.' The station said that the 30 episodes of The Late Late Show from September 13, 2024, to May 9, 2025 had an average audience of 390,000, with an audience share of 37 per cent. That's down on the previous year when 28 episodes of The Late Late Show from September 15, 2023, to April 19, 2024, which had an average audience of 442,000 and an audience share of 39 per cent. RADIO RISE Separately, New JNLR figures released this month showed The Nob Nation star now has 355,000 listeners on his 4 Callan has been described as the closest thing to Gay Byrne RTE has ever had Credit: Instagram / @olivercallanshow
Irish Daily Mirror
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Daily Mirror
'We haven't come so far as a country, Joe. In fact we've gone backwards'
I was surprised to hear Joe Duffy cheer Ireland's social progress on the Late Late Show, saying: 'We've come so far as a country.' The legendary broadcaster was chatting last week to Patrick Kielty to mark his retirement after 27 years of listening to the nation on Liveline. The Ballyfermot man is one of our most down-to-earth public figures, and I'm a big fan. But I'd have thought he'd be highly aware of the realities of life in Ireland today, specifically the social ill of housing that's destroying families. Instead, Duffy's takeaway was how - less than a century ago - we were yet to abolish the workhouse, and therefore we'd advanced as a species. 'We have come so far and I think that's absolutely brilliant,' he said. 'We should acknowledge it without losing the context of the housing crisis and all that carry on.' It's a pretty low bar if you're using Dickensian workhouses as a starting point. The only way is up, from there. But I don't think by any standard we can look around at how ordinary, hard-working people can't afford to rent or buy; or witness kids queueing up at soup kitchens; or know families are living in one room, and pat ourselves on the back. We can't take record homeless figures of 15,000, including nearly 5,000 children, and conclude we've done a good job. In fact, about 100 years ago, a golden age of housing was about to start. Ireland moved from the 1920s of cramped tenements, collapsing houses and the worst slums outside of Calcutta, to large scale construction of social housing. Most of the houses built from the 1930s up to the 1970s were council houses. At one stage, it was as high a 55% of all housing output. To put that in perspective, that figure is 5.5% this past decade. As many as one-fifth of people were accommodated in social housing during that time. I was one of them. I grew up in a council house built in the 1970s. Shamefully, I used to be slightly self-conscious about this. Now I think I was lucky to grow up in a time and place where people could raise families, without need for two incomes, in a decent home. Wealthier friends of mine lived in big detached houses and that suited them. But we were just as happy in our Rockypool estate. Then, over time, there was a deliberate shift away from social housing, with it effectively ceasing after the economic crash. The Government outsourced it into the private market, killing two birds with one stone, so they thought. Landlords were happy, state was happy - with the landlords paying nearly half the rent income back to the taxman, it benefitted both to let rents get higher. But it predictably backfired. Ultimately, it's this flip from social housing as state investment to social housing as private profit that created a housing crisis that's been going on for 11 years. There's this received narrative that housing problems are a constant, that this is just the latest phase of an ongoing issue. They're not: they were caused by government policy that could not have been more guaranteed to cause a crisis if someone sat down and designed them specifically for that purpose. Just one example of this is how our leaders let rents go as high as they could go before bringing in basic rights for tenants in a crisis, such as rent caps and protection from being turfed out your own home in a matter of weeks. Finance Minister Michael Noonan said it in the Dail in 2014: "We need rents to go a little bit higher." Another is how they responded to spiralling rents by boosting the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), paying more money into landlords' pockets, instead of limiting what they could squeeze out of renters. They refused for years to bring in a rent cap. Then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar confirmed in 2021 it was a profit-driven business, saying: "One person's rent is another person's income." So don't buy into the political handwringing about it, and the headlines about state 'solutions' to a crisis it has engineered and maintained. The housing crisis is now an established housing system, and the reason it hasn't been 'solved' is because it suits too many people. In my view, it's comparable to why America does not have a functioning healthcare system and instead lets the citizen shoulder the financial burden. I don't believe we've come so far as a country. Instead, we've gone backwards.
Extra.ie
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
The biggest underdog stories as Ireland's Eurovision odds revealed
Ireland's odds of winning the Eurovision just keep getting worse and worse. While EMMY and Laika Party have a shot at getting into the grand final — coming in at 8/11 — the odds on us extending our (now-tied) record to eight wins read for grim viewing, with some markets having us as long as 250/1. However, stranger things have happened. And with these long odds landing from rank outsiders, could the miracle be pulled off this Saturday? DISCLAIMER: WE'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT GOING TO TELL YOU TO PUT MONEY OR NOT ON IRELAND TO WIN THE EUROVISION — GAMBLE RESPONSIBY! Patrick Kielty as host of the Late Late Show seems like a no brainer now, but he was a rank outsider when the race to replace Tubridy was on. Pic: Andres Poveda After wrapping up his second season as Late Late host last Friday, Patrick Kielty hosting seems like a no brainer in hindsight. But when Ryan Tubridy announced his departure, the Down comedian appeared to be a long shot rather than a dead cert. Patrick's odds as host kicked off at around 12/1 to 14/1 — making him a rank outsider, but not impossible — but once favourites such as Miriam O'Callaghan and Claire Byrne dropped out, and despite a few red herrings in Angela Scanlon and Tommy Tiernan, Patrick's odds were slashed. And the rest, as they say, is history. Cardinal Robert Prevost was stuck around 100/1 odds wise when it came to becoming Pope Francis' successor, but was elected Pope Leo XIV — becoming the first ever Pope from the USA. Pic: Ettore Ferrari/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Cardinal Robert Prevost made history last week when he became the first ever Pope from the USA — but while people were wondering who could become Francis' successor, his name was seldom, if ever, brought up. Bookies such as Polymarket over in the US had his chances of becoming the pope at around 1% — meaning in layman's terms that his odds would've been around 99/1. But, amazingly, some Americans had the inside track; with two punters netting at least $20,000 after Pope Leo XIV made his first address as his Holiness. Salvador Sobral wasn't given much of a chance back in 2017, but won the competition by a huge margin. Could EMMY do the same this weekend? Pic:See? It can be done! Salvador Sobral's ballad Amar Pelos Dois wasn't given much of a look to win the contest outright — matter of fact, he wasn't even in placed in the top 10 before the semi final. However, he blew both the judges and televoters away, bringing Portugal its first Eurovision with a massive 758 points. Could EMMY pull it off this weekend? The USA went on to win the gold in the Winter Olympics after beating the heavily favoured USSR, who'd beaten them in every game in 20 years up until that point. Pic:While ice hockey isn't as big a deal on this side of the Atlantic, the USA's Miracle on Ice is one of the more impressive winter sport stories of the 80s. During the 1980 Winter Olympics, the virtually unknown USA ice hockey team were a bunch of lads fresh out of college who weren't given a chance against the USSR, who beat them in every game they played for over 20 years. However, the 1,000/1 odds were beaten, and the US went on to win the gold. There's doing the impossible, and then there's winning the Premier League one season after being in a relegation dogfight, at odds of 5,000/1. Enter Leicester City. Pic: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images Of course, this is probably the most well known miracle to ever happen sports-wise. After barely surviving relegation in the 2014/15 Premier League season, the Foxes were given odds of 5,000/1 of winning the Premier League in 2016. And through the magic of Jamie Vardy, N'Golo Kante, and the tinkerman himself Claudio Ranieri, the quite literally impossible dream came true, and Leicester City became champions. Sure, they've been yo-yoing since and are back on their way down, but it's one thing that can never be taken away from them.
Irish Daily Mirror
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
RTE share how many watched Late Late Show as Patrick Kielty makes announcement
Tens of thousands of viewers tuned into the final Late Late Show on the season – as host Patrick Kielty confirmed when the chat show will return. Figures released by RTE reveal an average 451,000 tuned in to watch the finale of the Friday night chat show as it takes a break for the summer. As many as 36,000 more viewers watched the chat show last Friday compared to 2024 finale, which drew in an average audience of 415,000. Last Friday night, Patrick Kielty was joined by an all-star lineup. In an exclusive interview, seven-time Super Bowl Champion, Tom Brady, talked about his Irish roots and deep connection with Ireland. RTE star Joe Duffy gave his first interview since making the decision to retire from RTÉ, while Eurovision hopeful EMMY chatted to Patrick before she headed off to represent Ireland in Basel, Switzerland to the song contest. And Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle was also in studio to chat with Patrick after the band's reunion tour. The cast from Tina - The Tina Turner Musical also gave an energetic performance. Additionally, a spokesman for RTE said The Late Late Show content on social media performed exceptionally well over the weekend, with 4 million views across all platforms. On Friday, Mr Kielty confirmed he will be returning to host The Late Late Show in September. Signing off, he told viewers: 'We will be back to do it all again in September. Until then, have a great summer.'
