Why Ryan is sitting pretty

He loves his RTE job but he enjoys the BBC work too. He no longer fears critics. So now, at almost 40, Tubridy is finally content, he tells Jonathan deBurca Butler

MENTION ‘toy show’ to Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy and his face lights up. On Friday night, he will present his fourth show of seasonal anarchy.

“It’s my show of the year,” says the presenter. “What I love about it? The brakes are cut. Anything can happen. I always say that grown-ups are just children with wrinkles. They’re still very immature, very juvenile, very puerile. But kids are kind of uncontaminated by the adult debris that clutters one’s life. I was never very ambitious to present the Late Late Show, but I was always ambitious to present the toy show.”