{"id":292790,"date":"2025-12-01T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292790\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:38:10","slug":"toy-show-presenter-patrick-kielty-on-how-rte-makes-the-biggest-show-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292790\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Show presenter Patrick Kielty on how RT\u00c9 makes the biggest show of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Much-loved funnyman recalls his early days in comedy, coping with the loss of his father, and pride at Toy Show gig\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paddy Kielty after landing The Late Late Show gig in 2023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/098745dd-0d4d-4697-8049-9f40edbee3dd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paddy Kielty after landing The Late Late Show gig in 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Patrick Kielty was growing up, he played Gaelic football as a goalkeeper. It was a position, he says, that could swing \u201cfrom zero to hero\u201d and back again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIf a goalkeeper saves the ball, it\u2019s like \u2018Oh my God!\u2019 He might have just won the match. If a goalkeeper drops the ball, it\u2019s the goalkeeper who has completely lost it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much-loved funnyman recalls his early days in comedy, coping with the loss of his father, and pride at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,10152,96,22960,15590,62616,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-292790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-down-news","tag-entertainment","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-rte","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}