Ex-RTE star to open up on major career move on Late Late Show
The Late Late Show is back for another week with host Patrick Kielty, with RTE revealing another stellar line-up.
Viewers will be flocking to their tellies on Friday with guests such as Irish Stranger Things star Amy McNulty and Mischa Barton, who starred in the iconic teen drama The O.C.
Thirty years on from the murder of Veronica Guerin, crime journalist Nicola Tallant will reflect on Veronica’s remarkable career and the enduring legacy she left in investigative and crime reporting.
The Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty. Pic: Andres Poveda
Charlene McKenna also joins the show this week, and she will be discussing her return to the stage in The Crucible and what it’s like to perform alongside her husband.
From GAA pitches in Co Down to NFL stadiums, Charlie Smyth will return to The Late Late Show to talk about his extraordinary year, including making his debut in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, how the support from home is driving him on and why he has the Super Bowl in his sights.
Finally, viewers will see one popular presenter back on their screens this week ahead of her major career move.
Amybeth McNulty attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Season 5. Pic: FilmMagic
Claire Byrne, who is set for a significant salary increase in her new role, will sit down with Patrick Kielty ahead of taking up the mic for her new weekday morning show on Newstalk.
Back in October, Claire emotionally signed off from RTE for the final time, after many years of fronting her daily two-hour current affairs and lifestyle show on RTE Radio 1.
The broadcaster announced in August that she would be leaving RTÉ, where she has been a mainstay for over a decade, to take on a brand-new weekday show with the station’s independent rival.
Claire Byrne. Pic: Conor McCabe Photography
It’s understood that her new show with Newstalk will start in the first week of February.
She will be chatting to Kielty on Friday about why now felt like the right time to make the move, what listeners can expect from the new show and the fresh challenge of going head‑to‑head with former colleagues and friends on the airwaves.
It comes as Claire has been making the most of her well-earned downtime between leaving RTE and taking up her new Newstalk role, with the veteran radio and TV presenter recently spending some time in Honduras, where she was seen laughing as curious monkeys climbed all over her during a day out.
‘Busy meeting new folk with no concept of maintaining personal space,’ she joked in the caption.
