Patrick Kielty is 'chomping at the bit' to get back to work as RTE Late Late Show host on lookout for new home
The star will return to our screens to present his second season on Friday, September 13 after a summer break.
Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty has revealed he is on the lookout for a new home as he admits he is “chomping at the bit” to get back to work.
The star will return to our screens to present his second season on Friday, September 13 after a summer break. Opening up about returning to the Friday night chat show, he said he was “chomping at the bit” to get back to work.
"I've just left the campervan back this morning. We were doing a staycation around County Down with our two fellas for the best part of a week. They are fans. For me, two kids under eight in a campervan is, shall we say, eventful."
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Things are still busy even though the kids have gone back to school, as the family are currently house hunting.
"Just getting back into a routine with the kids going off to school helps," Patrick told the RTÉ Guide.
"And we're also doing a house hunt at the minute. So, a change is as good as a rest. I'm not really someone who enjoys lying on a beach. I much prefer going to a couple of Gaelic matches with the boys here.
"The eldest fella is eight, and there was a Cúl Camp blitz down at the pitch. The pitch is named after me aul fella and when your son's playing GAA on a pitch named after your aul fella, sometimes you have to take a wee bit of time and just smell the flowers and go, 'Wow, this is a moment'. Those are the things that recharge me.
"So, the batteries are well and truly charged at this stage. I'm chomping at the bit to get going again.”
Heading into his second season as the Late Late Show host, the Co Down native said he can be nothing but himself.
"During my first season as host, and going into the second series now, you can only be yourself," he said. "Audiences are smart. Audiences are savvy. They smell BS and that goes for the crews in RTÉ too, who have seen people come and go.
"If somebody doesn't like you, that's fine; there are lots of flavours of ice cream out there! But my idea was always to come out from the very start and say, 'Look, this is who I am, and I hope you enjoy it'. I can't ask any more than that."
Reflecting on his first season, he said he didn’t lose much sleep hosting his first ever Late Late Toy Show.
"Here's the weird thing about that… The Toy Show didn't really cause me as many sleepless nights as I think it may have caused those in the rest of the team. The run-up to the Toy Show for me felt a bit like playing in an All-Ireland Final, where people just want to know, 'How will you play the first five minutes?' and ‘What will you do you when you catch that ball?' And, of course, it's also like an All-Ireland final because the main question people are asking is, Do you have any tickets?
"The thing about the Toy Show is that it should never be about me. In my head throughout that evening, I've got a six-year-old and an eight-year-old. The Toy Show for me growing up was always about fun toys and fun kids. And if you can put both of those things together, you can give them the space to fly.
"Afterwards, people were coming up to me and saying, 'Oh, God, I bet you're glad that's over?' What I think they were really saying was, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's over',” he jokingly added.
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