“When you’ve grown up watching the Toy Show and you’ve got kids of your own, you know, to be part of the Toy Show at all is a big, big deal,” reports RTE.
Patrick Kielty is under no illusions that hosting The Late Late Toy Show is as big an event as his first night on the job as the new host of The Late Late Toy Show.
And in the twinkling eyes of all the extra viewers tuning in this Friday, it’s a unique task entrusted to a select few. For many of them, The Toy Show marks the start of the Christmas season across Ireland.
Kielty is the new Toy Man and expectations are high, and no one feels that more than the Co Down resident right now.
“The people that have hosted the Toy Show and the weight of expectation… you try not to think about those things. It’s a big, big night,” he told RTÉ Entertainment, reports RTE.
“My dad owned the building company, and so you had that thing of the last Friday before Christmas when everybody got paid in the village. Our house in Dundrum is right beside the chapel, so after midnight mass, everybody would call in. Anybody from people that my dad had done business with to the postman. Everybody got a Christmas drink in our house and there was always a turkey sandwich on the go. So, our house would have always been an open house and all the better for it,” he added, reports RTE.
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