{"id":382782,"date":"2026-04-05T06:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:12","slug":"patrick-kieltys-future-in-rte-up-in-the-air-as-star-refuses-to-say-whether-he-has-signed-a-deal-to-continue-as-late-late-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382782\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kielty\u2019s future in RT\u00c9\u00a0up in the air as star\u00a0refuses to say\u00a0whether he has signed a deal to continue as &#8216;Late Late\u2019 host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Station chief Kevin Bakhurst wants host to remain on primetime show, but it\u2019s believed no contract has been signed yet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Kielty has declined to say if he will stay on as 'Late Late' host. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sn Paddy Kielty.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Patrick Kielty has declined to say if he will stay on as &#8216;Late Late&#8217; host. Photo: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Will he stay or will he go? The Late Late Show host Patrick\u2019s Kielty\u2019s three-year contract is coming to an end in the coming weeks, with no sign of a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When contacted by the Sunday Independent, both Kielty and RT\u00c9 refused to say whether an agreement had been reached for Kielty to continue hosting the flagship show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Station chief Kevin Bakhurst wants host to remain on primetime show, but it\u2019s believed no contract has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8211,14209,93,61,60,312,47232,6083,9034,15645,6085,6084,1395,7539,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-382782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cat-deeley","9":"tag-colin-farrell","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jessie-buckley","14":"tag-kevin-bakhurst","15":"tag-niamh-horan","16":"tag-patrick-kielty","17":"tag-patrick-odonovan","18":"tag-rte","19":"tag-ryan-tubridy","20":"tag-shane-lowry","21":"tag-the-late-late-show","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382782","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=382782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}