Patrick Kielty has made a rare family life admission after his split from wife Cat Deeley earlier this year. The Late Late Show host, 54, and This Morning star Cat, 49, tied the knot back in 2012 but announced they were going their separate ways in a joint statement in July 2025 – but that they would continue to co-parent their children.
Patrick and Cat share sons Milo, nine, and James, seven. They announced in their statement: “We have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated. There is no other party involved. We will continue to be united as loving parents to our children and would therefore kindly ask for our family privacy to be respected. There will be no further comment.”
Now Patrick has made a rare admission about his kids while promoting The Toy Show, which he presents annually on RTÉ One.
He told Sunday World: “Our pair are seven and nine, so they are absolute Toy Show fanatics.” Speaking of the 2024 edition – which saw Olympians Phil Healy and Sharlene Mawdsley perform a trolley dash around a closed Smyths Toys shop, he added: “They were like, ‘They opened that for you?’
“They’ve this year started trying to guess the theme as well, so there’s been a bit of fun and games in that one. I haven’t broke… yet.”
He echoed to the Sunday Independent: “I think the magic of the Toy Show is kids being able to see people doing things they’d never be able to do – and whether that’s meeting a hero of theirs, or doing a raid on a closed toy store, that stuff still blows their mind.”
Discussing his parenting style, Patrick added: “You see parents who give their kids a phone for 20 minutes so they can have their meal in peace, and then we wonder why those kids want a phone again later?
“We, as adults, are still struggling around the fact that people are living on two or more screens at once, but kids don’t care. They can be texting and watching a TED talk at the same time, and they couldn’t care less if a friend is in the room or on a screen.”