{"id":486122,"date":"2026-06-06T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486122\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:25:12","slug":"baz-ashmawy-reacts-to-potentially-hosting-late-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486122\/","title":{"rendered":"Baz Ashmawy reacts to potentially hosting Late Late Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV star Baz Ashmawy has confirmed he hasn&#8217;t been approached to audition for the Late Late Show &#8211; as he reckons Patrick Kielty will be back for another series.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick has yet to confirm his return to host the Friday night chat show, but RT\u00c9\u00a0Director General Kevin Bakhurst confirmed last month he would love to have the Northern Irishman back for another series.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation is rife as to who will be the next host of the coveted chat show &#8211; but Baz confirmed he has never auditioned to be it&#8217;s next presenter and TV bosses have never approached him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Money-List-S4-High-Res-Baz-4.jpg\" alt=\"RT\u00c9, The Money List, Baz Ashmawy. Pic: Andres Poveda\" class=\"wp-image-2121979\"  \/>RT\u00c9, The Money List, Baz Ashmawy. Pic: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p>The Money List host told EVOKE: &#8216;I\u2019ve never auditioned. I know people were mentioning it but I just work from job to job and I see if something suits me or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Late Late Show is an institution. If you grow up in Ireland, most of us grew up watching it and how it evolved and changed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/05\/12\/entertainment\/baz-ashmawy-mammy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baz <\/a>said he preferred if the show went in a different direction with it&#8217;s format, saying interviewing normal people with extraordinary stories was an &#8216;element&#8217; to the Late Late Show that he liked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I always like that original mix of what people would consider normal people with extraordinary stories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Money-List-Baz-Ashmawy-5501-0253.jpg\" alt=\"RT\u00c9, The Money List, Baz Ashmawy. Pic: Andres Poveda\" class=\"wp-image-2024751\"  \/>RT\u00c9, The Money List, Baz Ashmawy. Pic: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I always liked that element of the Late Late Show. But nobody has spoken to me recently regarding that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy Emmy award winner believes Patrick will come back for another series but believes it can be a &#8216;poison chalice&#8217; to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think he might come back\u2026. They probably have a shortlist of people if Patrick doesn\u2019t come back but I think he has been doing a good job. I really like him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s not an easy gig and to a certain degree it is a poison chalice. It depends on what you like and what you want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/patricklls.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Kielty on the Late Late Show. Pic: Late Late Show \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2138990\"  \/>Patrick Kielty on the Late Late Show. Pic: Late Late Show \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve done every type of presenting there is. I\u2019m doing this so long, there is no element of me saying of I don\u2019t do that. I do whatever I\u2019m paid to do. But I\u2019ve been lucky enough to do things that I want to do so I don\u2019t do things just for the sake of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a hard question for me to answer about doing the Late Late Show because I don\u2019t know their vision for the <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/05\/25\/entertainment\/odds-slashed-late-late-show-host\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Late Late Show<\/a> is and I haven\u2019t spoken to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Audiences are so smart. If you do something that you don\u2019t like, they\u2019ll see it straight away so you\u2019re much better off doing something. Even if it\u2019s not critically acclaimed, at least you\u2019ve done it really well.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV star Baz Ashmawy has confirmed he hasn&#8217;t been approached to audition for the Late Late Show &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-486122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486122","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=486122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}