{"id":165760,"date":"2025-11-29T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165760\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:26:08","slug":"four-late-late-show-talking-points-including-katie-taylor-talking-about-her-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165760\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Late Late Show talking points, including Katie Taylor talking about her marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer Katie Taylor has shared a rare look into her personal life, revealing some details of her marriage during an interview on  The Late Late Show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Earlier this year, her father, Pete Taylor,  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/people\/arid-41702747.html\">confirmed her marriage<\/a> on a podcast after she was seen wearing a wedding ring and the couple later attended an event together in Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She told Patrick Kielty that finding love with Sean McCavanagh came as a surprise to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt&#8217;s definitely been a lovely, unexpected season for me,\u201d she said, \u201cI think since I was a teenager, I&#8217;ve been so focused on boxing, I left very little room for relationships. And honestly, even the thought of a relationship was out the way for me. So it&#8217;s so lovely that love snuck up in the later stages of the career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cMyself and my husband, Sean, live a lovely, quiet life in Connecticut, and we&#8217;re very happy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She added her husband is \u201cone of those Irish-Americans who think they\u2019re Irish\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Toy Show Appeal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is almost  Toy Show day! On Friday night\u2019s show, Patrick Kielty was joined by jockey\u00a0Rachael Blackmore, Cro\u00eda\u00a0Shine,\u00a0a\u00a0service user\u00a0of the Jack de Bromhead Equine Centre at\u00a0ChildVision,\u00a0and Cora\u2019s mother\u00a0Cara to launch this year\u2019s Toy Show Appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThese charities just cannot do it without the funding, it&#8217;s massive,\u201d Blackmore said. \u201cYou can see firsthand the benefits that this funding brings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cro\u00eda\u2019s mum added: \u201cShe wouldn&#8217;t be the little girl you see today without ChildVision.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Toy Show Appeal has raised \u20ac26 million for children\u2019s charities since it was first launched by the late Sao\u00edrse Ruane in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Donations can be made\u00a0now\u00a0at\u00a0www.rte.ie\/toyshowappeal\u00a0or via the\u00a0Appeal\u2019s official donation partner, Revolut Pay.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Arthur\u00a0Gourounlian\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Dancing with the Stars judge and children\u2019s book author  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/artsandculture\/arid-41721813.html\">Arthur Gourounlian<\/a> spoke about how he struggled as a refugee, and how his father\u2019s death gave him a push to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As a child, Gourounlian fled war-torn Armenia with his family and his father died while they were living in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThat was the turning point in my life, because my dad never got to do anything, he never got to\u00a0travel, so I said I\u2019m going to do everything,\u201d he said, after speaking about how his father never realised his dream to see the Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI was selfish, I moved to Brussels on my own at 16 and left my mum and my sister because I just wanted to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI said to myself, \u2018I am not staying here I am going to survive\u2019 and I didn\u2019t know what the\u00a0future\u00a0would hold or if we would get to go back to Armenia but I knew nothing would stop me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Watch: Something Happens<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Irish band Something Happens performed on the show to celebrate 35 years together. Singer  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/artsandculture\/arid-41749428.html\">Tom Dunne<\/a> is an Arts and Culture columnist with the  Irish Examiner.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxer Katie Taylor has shared a rare look into her personal life, revealing some details of her marriage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,6405,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-165760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music-movies-reviews-munster","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}