{"id":201773,"date":"2025-12-20T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201773\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:55:11","slug":"ryan-tubridy-delighted-to-be-coming-home-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201773\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy ‘delighted’ to be coming home to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Tubridy has said he is coming back to live in Ireland \u2013 but will still continue to do presenting work in the UK.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the 52-year-old dramatically left his role with Virgin Radio UK in London<\/a> after almost two years and is to launch a new series on YouTube.<\/p>\n

The former Late Late Show host has presented a midday slot on Virgin Radio UK since January last year, which was also broadcast on Dublin station Q102 but he hosted his final programme yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"RyanRyan Tubridy (pictured with Angela Scanlon) has left his Virgin Radio UK show. Pic: Ryan Tubridy\/Instagram<\/p>\n

He left RT\u00c9 and moved to the UK following the hidden payments scandal that rocked the national broadcaster in 2023.<\/p>\n

He told The Irish Daily Mail: \u2018I\u2019m coming home but it\u2019s very much still a case of one foot or more in London. I\u2019ll be working over there, probably, three days a week on different projects as announced.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Ryan Tubridy\/Instagram<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s really a rebalancing of my personal life so that I\u2019m based here [in Dublin] as I start the new year with my wife.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ryan tied the knot<\/a> with clinical psychologist and former Rose of Tralee winner Dr Clare Kamabamettu a fortnight ago. He added last night: \u2018I\u2019ve just literally moved my life in London back to Dublin in six cases. It would make a good podcast.<\/p>\n

\u2018In recent months I was spending more time in Dublin, so I asked the bosses was there some way to facilitate flipping things around. And they came back with this, and I\u2019m delighted. <\/p>\n

‘The new role is one I\u2019m very excited about. It\u2019s back to talk radio where I belong, and the new YouTube channel is, of course, future-facing as well.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"RyanRyan Tubridy and Clare Kambamettu on their wedding day. Pic: Aoife Herriott<\/p>\n

The parent company of Virgin Radio UK, News Broadcasting, released a statement detailing Ryan’s new ventures. His new YouTube show will be named The Late Show with Ryan Tubridy and it will also be broadcast on Times Radio. <\/p>\n

The channel will reflect on the lives of the biggest stars in film, music, sport and television, with chats with the journalists, authors and experts who knew them best, a statement announced.<\/p>\n

The father-of-two is also developing a new show for Talksport. Signing off from his show on Virgin Radio on Friday, Ryan said: \u2018I will be on the move, I am moving away to different pastures, you will have a new host and you\u2019ll be in safe hands. <\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Ryan Tubridy\/Instagram<\/p>\n

‘My new opportunities allow me to be home more, which I was angling for and am so happy it was able to be made possible.\u2019<\/p>\n

His Virgin Radio UK programme had been attracting approximately half a million listeners in Britain. The broadcaster\u2019s current weekday show on the Onic radio network will change to a weekend slot on Dublin\u2019s Q102, Cork\u2019s 96FM, Limerick\u2019s Live 95 and LMFM.<\/p>\n

In August, Ryan repaid a sum of \u20ac150,000 to RT\u00c9, two years after the hidden payment scandal which led to his leaving the public service broadcaster. It was revealed in June 2023 that, between 2017 and 2022, Ryan had received a series of payments totalling \u20ac345,000 above his published salary. <\/p>\n

\"PicturedRyan ahead of The Late Late Eurosong Special. Pic: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n

Two payments of \u20ac75,000 each were made by RT\u00c9 to Ryan in 2022 for two promotional events for car company Renault that then never took place.<\/p>\n

The scandal broke just a hosted his final Late Late Show after 15 seasons. It also led to the resignation of RT\u00c9 director general Dee Forbes. Ryan did not return to his daily RT\u00c9 Radio 1 slot after the scandal. He moved from Dublin to London the following January to broadcast a mid-morning show from the Virgin studio in London.<\/p>\n

Ms Forbes\u2019s successor Kevin Bakhurst dismissed speculation last week that Ryan was poised to return to RT\u00c9 to host Radio One\u2019s week night arts show Arena, but didn\u2019t rule out the presenter\u2019s return to the station sometime in the future. <\/p>\n

\"Dr.Dr. Clare Kambamettu (L) and Ryan Tubridy attend The Irish Post Awards. Pic: WireImage<\/p>\n

Ryan stated in Friday’s announcement that he was looking forward to moving on to new projects in the new year but did not give a firm date.<\/p>\n

\u2018I am extremely excited about today\u2019s news and the opportunity to work again in the world of speech radio, with YouTube channels and with the Onic network in Ireland,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Managing director of Onic Se\u00e1n Barry said the career decision would benefit Ryan’s Irish audiences. <\/p>\n

\u2018This new show will lean into Ryan\u2019s strengths with a speech-led offering, complemented with a perfect Sunday morning music accompaniment,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy has said he is coming back to live in Ireland \u2013 but will still continue to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-201773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201773","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=201773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}