Four Late Late Show talking points, including Katie Taylor talking about her marriage
Katie Taylor on The Late Late Show
Boxer Katie Taylor has shared a rare look into her personal life, revealing some details of her marriage during an interview on .
Earlier this year, her father, Pete Taylor, confirmed her marriage on a podcast after she was seen wearing a wedding ring and the couple later attended an event together in Co Wicklow.
She told Patrick Kielty that finding love with Sean McCavanagh came as a surprise to her.
“It's definitely been a lovely, unexpected season for me,” she said, “I think since I was a teenager, I've been so focused on boxing, I left very little room for relationships. And honestly, even the thought of a relationship was out the way for me. So it's so lovely that love snuck up in the later stages of the career.
“Myself and my husband, Sean, live a lovely, quiet life in Connecticut, and we're very happy.”
She added her husband is “one of those Irish-Americans who think they’re Irish”.
It is almost day! On Friday night’s show, Patrick Kielty was joined by jockey Rachael Blackmore, Croía Shine, a service user of the Jack de Bromhead Equine Centre at ChildVision, and Cora’s mother Cara to launch this year’s Toy Show Appeal.
“These charities just cannot do it without the funding, it's massive,” Blackmore said. “You can see firsthand the benefits that this funding brings.”
Croía’s mum added: “She wouldn't be the little girl you see today without ChildVision.”
The Toy Show Appeal has raised €26 million for children’s charities since it was first launched by the late Saoírse Ruane in 2020.
Donations can be made now at www.rte.ie/toyshowappeal or via the Appeal’s official donation partner, Revolut Pay.
judge and children’s book author Arthur Gourounlian spoke about how he struggled as a refugee, and how his father’s death gave him a push to survive.
As a child, Gourounlian fled war-torn Armenia with his family and his father died while they were living in Belgium.
“That was the turning point in my life, because my dad never got to do anything, he never got to travel, so I said I’m going to do everything,” he said, after speaking about how his father never realised his dream to see the Eiffel Tower.
“I was selfish, I moved to Brussels on my own at 16 and left my mum and my sister because I just wanted to survive.
“I said to myself, ‘I am not staying here I am going to survive’ and I didn’t know what the future would hold or if we would get to go back to Armenia but I knew nothing would stop me.”
Irish band Something Happens performed on the show to celebrate 35 years together. Singer Tom Dunne is an Arts and Culture columnist with the
