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00:00:00Now, ladies and gentlemen, let's have a welcome from Patrick Keelty.
00:00:24Hello, and welcome to The Litany Show.
00:00:28We have another cracker coming your way as we're giving away the very last tickets on our toy show.
00:00:34And, hi, kicking us off tonight, the global phenomenon that's been packing them in on Broadway,
00:00:39the West End, and on its worldwide tour, coming soon to the Borde Gauche Energy Theatre,
00:00:44Madame et Monsieur, the brilliant Moulin Rouge the Musical!
00:01:03Hey, sister, go, sister, soul, sister, flow, sister.
00:01:08Hey, sister, go, sister, soul, sister, flow, sister.
00:01:12He met my Moulin Rouge down in old Moulin Rouge
00:01:16Strutted a stop on the street.
00:01:20She said, hello, hey, Joe.
00:01:23You wanna give it a go, oh-oh-oh
00:01:25Toulé-boucouche avec moi, c'est quoi?
00:01:29Toulé-boucouche avec moi
00:01:32He sat in her mood, what was she?
00:01:36Fresh enough
00:01:37Boy drank all that made for wine
00:01:41On her black set and cheese
00:01:44This hurry's funded out for me
00:01:46Kimchi, kimchi, ya-ya, ta-ta
00:01:49Kimchi, kimchi, ya-ya, ta-ta
00:01:54Mom, the chocolate, ya-ya
00:01:58Free all that in my mind
00:02:04Hello chickens!
00:02:07Yes, it's me!
00:02:09Your own beloved Harold Ziegler
00:02:11In the flesh!
00:02:13Welcome to the Moulin Rouge!
00:02:19Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui Kui K
00:02:49Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:02:54Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:03:02Everybody can, can
00:03:05Everybody's great!
00:03:27Woo!
00:03:28Everyone is welcome here
00:03:45No matter your desire
00:03:47No matter your sin
00:03:49You are all the moolah rule
00:03:54Mama love
00:03:59Mama love
00:04:03Mama love
00:04:08Yeah
00:04:10Yeah
00:04:12Eichi, eichi, dah-da-da-da
00:04:15Vovan e
00:04:33Free your lady mama la
00:04:37Woo!
00:04:42the musical premiered at the Borgosch Energy Theatre in Dublin last night as part of its
00:04:56first ever world tour it runs until Sunday the 11th of January grab your tickets while you can
00:05:02through ticketmaster.ie and we are also giving away some tickets off our own tonight as part
00:05:09of the late late toy show big big giveaway folks we have four pairs of toy show tickets for four
00:05:16lucky winners before the end of the show there might even be one in the audience I'm just saying
00:05:21I'm just saying it's it's a very maybe not for you it's a very it's a very serious business folks
00:05:30and so we put our very best people on it tonight
00:05:33there we go say hello to our crack commando team of highly qualified toy show analysts and
00:05:43psychological profilers there they are they will be selecting phone numbers to oh he's quite a big
00:05:50elf entirely at random to give away our tickets if you've registered all you got to do is pick up the
00:05:56phone when they call you and you could be on your way to the toy show
00:06:02also
00:06:07also this week Ireland could still be on their way to the world cup thanks
00:06:17thanks to the high five heroics of the late late Troy show
00:06:25finally we're ready which way
00:06:41the Irish supporters behind that goal absolutely delirious Troy parent they could be in here
00:06:49it's 2-2 the inspiration has come from Troy parent and now let's see what that hungry table made of
00:06:56great scales wins a head of the jam
00:06:58yes
00:07:02that's Troy parent that is unbelievable
00:07:05he's scored a half two and right at the deck Ireland have done it
00:07:09i've never seen anything like it this is just stunning 3-2 the time is up
00:07:14the referee has to finish the game i'm not right there
00:07:17five goals and two games for Troy parent and if you think your house was excited imagine
00:07:28what it was like for these guys would you please welcome troy's mommy jennifer her
00:07:34granny josie granny lily and auntie terry welcome auntie terry how are we all doing
00:07:39look at the grin mommy jennifer you've got the grin on your face there have you calmed down from
00:07:49seeing that oh every time i see even then i'm at the scene on the screen there it's just unbelievable
00:07:54it's crazy isn't it it's very emotional yeah it really was i mean we all know where we were
00:07:59whenever those goals went in i know he's back in the netherlands playing for his club over there
00:08:04but you got a wee bit of time to celebrate with him after the game we did he came back to the hotel
00:08:08we were staying in the hotel but the team was staying in so he came back to the hotel and
00:08:13we just went just down the road and we got kfc and we came back to the hotel and just said there
00:08:18you know how to live jennifer i tell you we just sat in the in the lobby to live through half eleven
00:08:24just talking about what happened amazing amazing amazing stuff uh now granny josie uh you are a star
00:08:32yourself this week i mean tell us you made it on the news is that right yeah i went pub crawling
00:08:38it so talk us through this where did you see the goals i seen one in what's that pop
00:08:53in morris yeah then i left there to go to judges yeah i've seen you the one now on the way of judas
00:08:59he scored okay so you went to another pub for the second goal but on the way i always had to score
00:09:04and so i missed that one yeah but i was taught i was in judges i got three pints
00:09:12you got to talk on in there with the atmosphere it's great and then i went to the liam's to
00:09:16bridge several yeah and then gave me a bottle of champagne and little bottles of wine lovely because
00:09:22i don't drink that gave me point of hunger yeah the shop was rocking uh granny lily uh did you see
00:09:29any of the goals granny lily i did i saw two of them yeah okay yeah and on the tour so that we went to
00:09:37the aviva and i went to the ladies at the end of the night at the where it was 2-1 and terry ran and he's
00:09:45after scoring he's after scoring so that was great so we were in the eleanor on sunday night for the
00:09:49match and at the end of it i thought the match was over because it was the last kick i mean we all
00:09:54thought it was over yeah yeah i'm going to lady when the ladies and she flew in it's after scoring
00:09:59again so that was magic great so the next time i go to a match i'm going to stay in the toilet all day
00:10:03okay we'll give you the date we'll give you the date and when you need to be in the loo uh auntie
00:10:17terry now you uh you you somebody owes you big time tell it tell us what happened here you were meant to
00:10:23be where i should have been at the match with jennifer and the rest of jennifer's family yeah but um
00:10:29a girl that i walk with asked me to do her a favor to walk that day so you were meant to go
00:10:35to budapest and you swapped shift yeah to stay at work yeah right okay um how's this going to work
00:10:43then so she owes me for the rest of my life but look at i probably sometimes i feel that i'm going to
00:10:50bring a bad look when i'm there and anyway but anyway on the way home my friend rang me and my friend
00:10:56mary and she told me that they were at this garden i couldn't believe it okay so we've worked out
00:11:02jennifer we worked out exactly what's happening here you're staying at work you're staying in the
00:11:05toilet you're staying in the pub for the next match okay this is good yeah jennifer is the only one
00:11:09who's going to be there yeah okay so jennifer you're going to be there uh we've got czechia uh next march
00:11:15you're going to be going to that josey oh yes i've built flight now all but oh yes oh yes okay
00:11:20i'm missing this one all right this is good news uh guys uh you have uh troy has brought so much joy
00:11:27and to see you guys here tonight just with a smile on your face and seeing you so proud uh
00:11:33it's done us the power of goods uh let's hear it for uh the parrot family
00:11:36okay my next guest is a huge success in every sense of the word the mastermind behind pointless
00:11:52the host of house of games and the author of one of the most successful series of books
00:11:58of all time swapping the thursday murder club for the friday chat club would you please welcome richard
00:12:03osmer welcome to the show thank you can i talk to troy's family for a second yes you can of course
00:12:29you can yeah there they are have you ever been to fulham it's really lovely it's a lovely part of
00:12:34london i think troy would enjoy himself there just for a couple of seasons okay this is good we'll get
00:12:40the deal done josie's the woman you need to talk to there she'll get that sorted out for us she's got
00:12:4615 in her pocket already hasn't she it's all good it's all good big big money transfer uh look we've got
00:12:52to talk about this uh congratulations on the book this is the fifth book in the series yeah the impossible
00:12:59fortune is it 15 million or 17 million it was copies it was 15 million just before i came on
00:13:06yes but i'm hearing it's 17 now yes uh does this mean that the impossible fortune is indeed
00:13:13your fortune richard paddy how dare you how dare i dare you that's i mean that's troy parrot money
00:13:18isn't it that is troy parrot money it certainly is um did you ever think that it was going to get
00:13:23this big when you started out no i just wanted to write you know it's a i'm incredibly proud of the
00:13:27books i love them i love writing those characters i love crime fiction that's why i write that so i
00:13:31just i wanted to write the best book i could and for as many people as possible to like it and then
00:13:37it turns out you know that is 15 million people which is great but it's lovely but the thing i love
00:13:41is writing it the thing i love is having those characters putting them out in the world meeting
00:13:45readers and this is you know writing as i started out as a writer i had this weird sort of coldly
00:13:51sack of becoming a television presenter which don't tell anyone but is the easiest job in the world
00:13:57and with respect to be fair and uh and now now i get to do a proper job again which is lovely no
00:14:03which is good uh we love a mommy story as uh you can tell on this show we love a mommy story in ireland
00:14:09your mommy had something to do with this she was a bit of an inspiration for the first book yeah well
00:14:14she lives in a retirement village and i would go down there all the time and everyone there's over 70
00:14:18i'd go down there and these people had such incredible stories and done these amazing things
00:14:23uh and yet they were all drinking red wine at 11 30 in the morning and i thought this is a good gang
00:14:29of people isn't it and where she lives is you know sort of you know sort of green hills and you can
00:14:33hear the birdsong and i thought this would be an amazing place for a murder uh and uh rather than
00:14:39commit one rather than commit one i just thought well if there was a murder here then this lot would solve
00:14:44it and it gave me the idea for the thirsty murder club four people in their late 70s early 80s
00:14:48look over old cold cases and suddenly there's a real murder on their doorstep and yeah that i
00:14:53just had that inspiration and and and off i went i'm glad i did and when your mom read the first book
00:14:58she was reading it quite intently but not in a kind of following the plot way yeah well because
00:15:03because i said oh i you know when i came here i had this idea so she thought i was actually writing
00:15:07about all her friends she was reading it for legal reasons she's reading the whole thing just to make
00:15:11sure i hadn't kind of you know said anything about any of her neighbors i had to say afterwards you know i
00:15:16made this up yeah you know this is like just fiction people from my head but the people in that village
00:15:20now when i first did it they said don't tell people where the village is because what if we
00:15:24get tourists we don't want tourists we're very private people and i firstly i said look it won't
00:15:28be a hit don't worry about that but now when it did sell all those copies now they're like they're
00:15:33selling t-shirts and mugs now there's now i go down and they they pitch me murders i go down there
00:15:38say here's an idea if i'd kill someone richard you'll like this one all of them all good all good uh so the
00:15:43mom was the inspiration uh i believe that the mother of ireland marion keys also offered you
00:15:48some inspirational advice for writing i mean the nicest woman in the whole world so i'm trying to
00:15:52persuade the bbc to put marion on celebrity traitors okay don't you think she would have to be a faithful
00:15:59i would have thought no but imagine yes exactly the woman who said no is exactly right imagine marion
00:16:05as a as a traitor she'd be the greatest traitor of all time yes no one would believe it of her
00:16:10uh no so so she said ages ago we're talking about how hard it is to the only thing about writing if
00:16:15you're writing is you've got to sit down and do it that's the only rule you've got to sort of put your
00:16:18backside in the chair and actually start and she said which is harder than yeah yeah well it's like
00:16:23going to the gym you've got to put your trainers on right and that's the worst bit of it and once
00:16:26you're done they think oh now i'm going to have to do it yeah and she said well i always light a candle
00:16:30said before i start writing i light a candle so before the candle is lit i'm not writing is that for holy
00:16:35inspiration or is that i mean you know what you never know with marion okay yeah and she says
00:16:40before it's lit i'm not writing when it's lit i am writing i said that's a that's a really lovely
00:16:44idea and then two days later i get a thing in the post and it's a candle from marion saying happy
00:16:49writing that's nice so i cannot believe she's a traitor i can't know you say i can't believe it
00:16:55and that is why she will be that's why she'd be amazing yeah uh we got to talk about uh the book
00:17:00we made it into a movie that was just crazy stuff an amazing cast netflix biggest movie last year
00:17:06helen mirren uh the world's sexiest man pierce brosnan yeah i think you're gonna say ben kingsley
00:17:11ben kingsley ben kingsley this is the line up here and uh you've got a gentleman there uh just steven
00:17:17spielberg just beside you hanging out right i look like a competition winner it's uh i had to say pierce
00:17:24brosnan who is he's the he's the most handsome man i've ever met in my entire life until i saw troy
00:17:29parrot uh and they all had books because they were all reading my book i thought oh isn't that
00:17:34amazing helen mirren and they were all reading my book and then he thought well of course they have
00:17:37to contractually they have to read the book because they're in it uh but so i was signing the books for
00:17:41all of them and when you sign books though the thing you mustn't do is sign people's name wrong
00:17:46so you get one chance to do it and i spelt pierce's name wrong no well he was so handsome and i was so
00:17:51distracted that i just i spelt his name wrong and i realized as i was doing it i realized i was doing it
00:17:57but i thought i can't even admit to it now so i had to go to my local bookshop the next day
00:18:02buy a copy of my own book and sign it again for pierce with the right name and say i'm so sorry you
00:18:07are so you're so handsome i got distracted i i love the fact that the local bookshop charged you for
00:18:13that's good they were like this is how he's selling 15 million books he keeps buying
00:18:17he's buying his own yeah uh i mean pierce of course uh very famously played james bond did i read
00:18:23somewhere that you potentially could have been a spy at one point yeah well i mean i i was uh after
00:18:29university though i was i was tapped up by uh by uh mi6 i think i'm too tall to be a spy is the truth
00:18:38i can't i can't lie or hide so i'd be the worst spy in the world but yeah they they sort of tapped me up
00:18:43in in quite a quite a boring way but yeah i could have been i could have been a spy i'm not saying i'm
00:18:47not perhaps i am okay i'd say that's good cover if i'm a spy i mean you imagine that if that comes out in
00:18:5220 years time you've done this interview you didn't get it out of it's it's true and you know
00:18:56i mean mi6 spies would would get such a such a warm welcome in ireland i mean i would suggest staying
00:19:03undercover for for this interview yeah just for the record i'm i'm not you know that's fine or or am i
00:19:09or am i there's a theme there's a theme um so in terms of uh you know the writing all of these things
00:19:19it kind of came later in life there was pointless there was house of games i mean you didn't really
00:19:25want to be in front of the camera no it was it was it was a complete accident really i was i was a
00:19:29writer then i was a tv producer for many many many years um which is another job that's harder than
00:19:35being a tv presenter and then when we pitched pointless to the bbc sometimes when you pitch game
00:19:39shows and you've done this yeah you get presenters to play the uh you get producers rather to play the
00:19:45presenters and we pitched pointless to the bbc and they liked it and that you know i played the
00:19:51richard osmond role uh in this run through and they said oh we need we really need someone like
00:19:56richard to do the richard osmond role and then someone on the team said well why don't you ask
00:20:02richard he's really like richard and they were like and because they had a big name because
00:20:05alexander armstrong was hosting it yeah they could i think they could go with someone who was unknown
00:20:09so they said would you like to do it i thought i mean what's the worst that can happen we'll do 20
00:20:13episodes of this something to tell the grandkids i was on tv once and then two thousand episodes
00:20:18later two thousand i was still there yeah i haven't done it for a while but at that point you were so
00:20:23nervous about going out in front of an audience that you actually had a fake name on the on the
00:20:27dressing room door well we would always have fake names we had fake names me and zander on our
00:20:31dressing room doors because on the very first show a contestant knocked on alexander armstrong's door
00:20:36and invited himself into his dressing room and started eating his biscuits with him and just said
00:20:40oh i'm looking forward to the show and alexander armstrong who's the most well-bought-up man in
00:20:44the world has to go oh can i make you a cup of tea so from that day onwards his the name on his
00:20:49dressing room door was sir peter morehouse and the name on my dressing room door was the reverend wendy
00:20:53benson so i was i was for for 12 years i was the reverend wendy benson until you until you moved on
00:21:00um now a lot of people on on house of games win i mean the prizes are okay on house of games yes oh no
00:21:07they're tats okay they're tired they're tired they're deliberate tat you uh you want something
00:21:12uh a lot more significant on on house of games the the love of your life i did yes yes i met my wife
00:21:18on on house of games the the uh actress uh ingrid oliver and i saw her name on a list of people who
00:21:23are going to come on the show and there she is cute uh and yeah i said they said who would you like
00:21:31on this list and i said well yeah i've got like ingrid oliver i've secretly said to that my producer i
00:21:35said i've got a bit of a crush on ingrid and yeah we literally started dating the following week so
00:21:42our entire first date is on camera this is kind of five days worth of uh of house of games i said in
00:21:48my speech i said i still it's very rare you remember the very first thing you said to your soul mate
00:21:52right the very very first time you met the person you spent your life with who remembers what they
00:21:57said and i remember exactly what i said to ingrid first thing i ever said was uh i'm looking for two
00:22:01answers and they rhyme with each other uh a musical instrument played by shaking and the capital of
00:22:07venezuela and i remember the first thing she said to me which was caracas and maracas and she had you
00:22:13at caracas she had me at caracas she absolutely did and and and the maracas were just a bonus
00:22:17um what a lovely story what a lovely story before uh before we wrap up here uh as you can tell we've
00:22:30got a bit of world cup fever uh here yes and congratulations to you and fingers crossed against
00:22:35czechia fingers crossed uh you are responsible for the world cup of crisps i believe yes i used to do
00:22:41that on uh on twitter we used to raise money for charity by doing well covered chocolate world cup of crisps
00:22:45and all sorts of things like that so this was a world cup where you put different flavors of
00:22:50crisps together there was a group stage yeah people voted playoffs people voted for uh the favorite
00:22:54crisps we've got a we've got a bone to pick with you here tonight because um in a crucial tie break
00:23:00in the world cup potato cheese and onion uh didn't even get out of the group stages they they were knocked
00:23:06out they were knocked out by they were knocked out by walker's smoky bacon what are you thinking i mean let's
00:23:13bring this in let's bring this in here we go you're booing democracy in quite right no yeah exactly
00:23:19so so like what we've got here we've got the var of crisps wow there it is so one of these we've got uh
00:23:27b for bacon and we've got a for absolutely the right choice to make so if you just if you would like to
00:23:33just uh try i mean perfectly it's absolutely fine just okay if you've got nothing else yeah
00:23:42suddenly suddenly
00:23:47sorry is there a party in my mouth
00:23:49that is the correct answer hey all day that is the correct answer uh richard spook the impossible
00:24:01fortune the fifth entry in the thursday murder club series of books uh is out now richard is going to
00:24:09stay with us uh give it up one more time for richard osmond um richard may well be continuing his
00:24:22research into his new book the friday uh the friday crisp club oh hang on oh hang on it's happening
00:24:29it's happening time to give away some toy show tickets here comes our crack commander team
00:24:37they're on route give them a round of applause here we go
00:24:42thanks so much thank you all nice to see you have we got someone on the line yes yes
00:24:50are they excited yes do you think they deserve a ticket i don't know i don't know you hold those there
00:24:58here we go do we have a caller on the line hello hello you keep you keep hello is that mark bolton lee
00:25:11from wexford yeah great uh mark could you sound less excited that you're potentially going to
00:25:21mark we have got oh no he's kidding now he's getting we have those tickets we have those tickets for him
00:25:26give him a little wave mark you are going to the live live show
00:25:34thank you so so much there you go thank you
00:25:39congratulations mark you okay yeah can i go okay that's it thank you good night
00:25:53mark is on his way to the toy show we'll be giving away more tickets in just a little bit but first
00:25:58here is your chance to win this week's competition roll it there theresa
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00:26:54shopping and treat yourself along the way for your chance to win the getaway for three and all that
00:27:00cash answer this well he's someone we all want to be friends with a hat trick from which troy catapulted
00:27:06the republic of ireland into the 2026 fifa world cup playoffs last weekend is it troy pigeon troy penguin
00:27:12or troy parrot to enter call 15 17 71 71 71 81 or text the word late followed by your answer and name
00:27:19to 57886 maximum cost per entry is 2 euro 50 you must be over 18 to enter full details are on rte.ie
00:27:26forward slash competitions the lines will close at 10 50 tonight we'll be calling the lucky winner before
00:27:30the end of the show and you'll need to take that call if you want to win the prize good luck okay still to
00:27:36come we have more from richard osmond we have country star lisa mccue will be joining us and
00:27:42with surprising one lucky viewer at home with the hottest tickets in time let's see if they're more
00:27:47excited than mark don't go away back after these
00:28:06you
00:28:16welcome back to the lee lee show richard osmond is still with us and my next guest is a one woman
00:28:21force of nature whose comedy journey has taken her from balancolic in cork to dublin's three olympia
00:28:27and london's alexandra palace she's also racked up hundreds of millions of online laughs and has
00:28:33come into a stage near you in 2026 with the latest irish tour making her late late show debut let's
00:28:39hear it for kyla cobbler
00:28:46welcome to the show thank you very much thank you for having me uh you guys have had a little
00:29:04we've never met never met at all met about three seconds ago three seconds ago it was intense it
00:29:09was really intense it was intense but it was good and it could become more intense who knows let's
00:29:13just see how it goes yeah so you've just flown in uh from just flown in from liverpool yeah liverpool
00:29:20would you believe that only this morning liverpool was great it was a wild show i'm on tour at the
00:29:24moment so it was absolutely nuts but i to be honest i was like i'm on the late show tomorrow so i don't
00:29:28care about any of you guys i've peaked in ireland already so i was like i'm done i can retire late late show
00:29:34it's all good i mean it's been a quick it's been a quick rise like four four years ago you you weren't
00:29:39really doing comedy at all now you're selling out all of these venues i was a bartender okay yeah i
00:29:44loved it i was the best bartender in the world also i know especially in dublin no offense dublin
00:29:50like dublin and london it's like 20 or for a cocktail that's on fire and gluten-free like not that
00:29:55not that kind of bartender i was a real bartender paddy okay where there was like six pints of guinness
00:29:59eight shots of whiskey i was on the phone i was like no he's not been in i haven't seen him no no no
00:30:04the carpets on the floor even in the bathroom real real bartending irish pub oh yeah irish pub and so
00:30:11that was kind of the training for the stand-up then absolutely yeah yeah because sometimes as well
00:30:15we're in the pub where i worked it was like it wasn't very trendy so there'd be no music on it'd be
00:30:20raining outside you'd have people from all walks of life and you just have to chat you know how we do
00:30:24it in ireland yeah no we know exactly how we do it and so richard richard's mom was kind of
00:30:29so so your mom was the inspiration for the books your mom kind of pushed you towards comedy but it
00:30:50didn't quite work i know when i was 15 so i'm 34 now i know shock uh when i was 15 my mom signed
00:30:57me up for a stand-up comedy course in dublin this is mama mary mama mary my mom there she is a little
00:31:03legend she's gorgeous there she is uh yeah let's talk for mom
00:31:10yeah yeah there she is mary's gonna give us a song tonight let's go moulin rouge times two
00:31:17uh yeah she signed me up for a course in dublin and i was like you are a lost woman not a chance
00:31:23i never thought i was gonna do it it's crazy hey moms know genuinely moms know they kind of do know
00:31:28because she saw something in you and then we saw something in you when you well there's one
00:31:32particular video yeah that we all just loved richard this is uh this is uh kyla uh on instagram i mean how
00:31:39many million views does this have nine minutes i don't know like like how many books did you sell 15
00:31:44million about that 15 million about that yeah yeah about that competition but it is like that yeah
00:31:51here we go check it out i know no we'll only go for one
00:31:58her boyfriend ah yeah he's unbelievable crap
00:32:03i know yeah i gotta rest his soul so he was a good man
00:32:05very good though very good you know what it is as well like you spend so much time trying to like
00:32:21think of funny ideas and funny videos and i was on my break at work and a guy walked in that you know
00:32:27just someone walks towards me at work and you're like oh here we go and he's like how are you and i
00:32:31was like grant how are you we were all chatting my boss like do you know him and i was like oh he's
00:32:34a nightmare i was like but he's a lovely guy and then it just came from that but then if you look
00:32:39in the video i went downstairs to get takeaway cops and it's all fireproofed so it looks like i've got
00:32:43loads of dandruff in my hair in the video and i meant bloody viral this is good though it's all good
00:32:48it works uh you well i mean there's quite a lot of i'm sure you've met quite a lot of winkers uh in in
00:32:54british tv and british tv oh yeah i can't i can't wink can you not wait no i can't do it that's a lack of
00:33:00crack that's it yeah i wondered what it was so richard richard met his wife at work you met
00:33:12i met my almost husband am i allowed to say fiance i hate the word fiance i'm far too irish to say the
00:33:18word almost husband almost husband i'm betrothed to him uh who's south african so tomorrow it might be
00:33:26the end of the relationship let's see oh we're going to have a great night i don't know let's
00:33:31see it's going to be very exciting let's see he's in there he is so handsome he's a he's handsome he's
00:33:36pretty isn't he it's very annoying because every time people meet him they're like oh my god he's so
00:33:40handsome i'm like what am i the ugly twin in the attic why is everyone so surprised that i've got a
00:33:44handsome husband yeah he's right of course he is fiance fiance yeah yeah personality as well
00:33:52and uh and so he popped the question where it was he popped the question so we're in south africa
00:33:58driving around on a road trip and i had a broken leg and i was wearing a fisherman's hat and he walked
00:34:04up and he had he actually had a black plastic bag and i don't know why but i looked and i was like did you
00:34:09shit in that bag and he was like i know that's your first thought i don't know what and he's never
00:34:15ever done anything of like that and i was just like oh my god and then he was like no and then he
00:34:20did the whole beautiful he didn't get down one knee because i'd be absolutely mortified as a true
00:34:24irish woman would uh and then i said yeah and now here we are we're almost married but it's taken ages
00:34:30it's very hard to get married in ireland what is that i don't know oh look at that look at that so cute
00:34:37cute yeah yeah i don't know what it is because he's got all different documentation and we live
00:34:42in spain so there's different i swear like i when they robbed the lure if i was like they did that
00:34:46faster than we i must get married like come on like yeah so well at least richard and i know what to
00:34:55get you as a wedding present it's a black bag with that yeah sorry have you yeah so are you going to go
00:35:02full bridezilla on this or you're not you're not a fan of fashion i'm not a big fan of the beauty
00:35:08industry and what they do to women it's not really my vibe all this sculpting and changing and all that
00:35:14comes with it squeezing in and pretending and yeah now did i spend two hours getting my makeup done yes
00:35:23i did but that's a different ball game yeah you're not a fan of the activewear absolutely no the active
00:35:28wear the sculpting and shaping i mean i find that ridiculous when i go to buy activewear to work out and
00:35:32they're like this will make you tighter and sculptor and skinnier and upper and i'm like the whole
00:35:35point of exercising is that i'm going to take i'm going to get there do you know what i mean but
00:35:39they're forcing you into one of these so i won't take it i absolutely won't take it i like my little
00:35:44belly i like my stew you know what i mean he loves my belly as well
00:35:49you two guys took your little bellies around a marathon course
00:36:03we ran a marathon last year we run the double marathon yes we did and it was the worst experience
00:36:09of my life anybody that runs a marathon you need to do go home and repair the relationship with your
00:36:15family stop running marathons it is so awful and everyone kept saying to me if you run half you
00:36:21can run a full one and that is not true now and people kept saying as well it's a mental game it's
00:36:27not it's very physical it's extremely physical i remember running the london marathon once i got
00:36:32halfway around and just it's awful isn't it yeah it's so bad do you ever want a marathon of course not
00:36:37i haven't lost my mind they should just all agree that marathon make marathon shorter
00:36:41it's the ultimate it's the ultimate challenge isn't it because let's just say it's eight miles
00:36:45call it so we'll just go make it smaller yeah we'll just go eight miles and that's oh my god if you
00:36:48finish that it's unbelievable and then everyone no one has to go through it i just want to pay my
00:36:52rent and stay hydrated and i'm buzzing like honestly that's what i'm at in my life yeah yeah yeah that's
00:36:58the real life is a marathon right yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah totally that's ronan keaton's new song is it
00:37:05you just gotta ride it uh you guys you have a little surprise did you give him his surprise yes
00:37:12i managed to get tickets to the rugby match tomorrow okay so that is very exciting very very in a little
00:37:22black bag and a little black bag full of poo it's gonna be great i'm gonna throw them at the rugby
00:37:27players as they come out yeah yeah yeah i'm really excited about it and it was very hard to get tickets
00:37:32to the rugby match wouldn't be ahead for you now with your 15 million but for some of us i don't know
00:37:37over here though i i assume you're playing south africa yeah oh yeah i hope so because those great
00:37:42tickets were hard to get
00:37:45yeah do we have a score prediction for that maybe i don't even know how the game works
00:37:49honest to god i'm just delighted that i got him he'll be delighted i was thrilled
00:37:52giving the tickets let's say three nil boom crushed it full of my playing way let's say let's say nil three
00:38:04how are you going to stay with us yeah i'm here let's do it okay uh kyla is uh going to be turning
00:38:09a new show not my lemons it is all across ireland next year including five dates at the three olympia
00:38:15in dublin there's an extra date on march the 23rd it was added today and i'm thinking that may be
00:38:20sold out there we go uh for information tickets all venues you can check out kyla cobbler.com one
00:38:27more time kyla
00:38:36my next guest is an irish italian stand-up he's gone from playing triangle in the orchestra to becoming
00:38:43one of the biggest noises in the world of comedy since been nominated for best newcomer at the edinburgh
00:38:48festival he's gone on to gather hundreds of applause it's thousands of fans and millions of laughs
00:38:52we're delighted to welcome him on the show tonight please give it up for vittorio angeloni
00:39:18welcome to the show vittorio how you doing i'm very well how are you patty i'm good uh
00:39:25uh you're uh well i was very proud of the suitcase that i won on house of games but apparently it's tat
00:39:31so there we go of course yes so this is uh you've been on richards uh it came out last week i was on
00:39:39richard osmond's house of games that's the only non-tat prize to be fair that on the fondue set of the
00:39:44only ones that prizes yeah that's better there we go there you go right of place yes i was on and i
00:39:50got and i i think i'm quite competitive and it's a quiz show and i like a quiz and i like a pub quiz
00:39:58and there's monday to friday five episodes and i've learned since from the fans on twitter
00:40:04you're not supposed to win all five days okay yes i think i took it a bit seriously yes and and and
00:40:11tried a bit hard at the trivia but but that's how you win the the big prize that's how you win all
00:40:16the tat padding yes seriously uh i mean you're a busy man you're gigging lots of venues uh belfast boy
00:40:23not a belfast name uh can you tell us the where the the angeloni's came from yes grew up in belfast half
00:40:31italian so i come from an immigrant background and that sometimes gets through an applause but don't worry
00:40:37but um you can feel how the voting trends are shifting in ireland um and listen you get the
00:40:45government you deserve and i know i grew up grew up belfast half italian my family had to move away
00:40:51from italy during world war ii to get away from all the bombs and violence
00:40:55so the move to belfast um good work team uh out of the frying pan into the raw
00:41:09you're saying you're competitive uh you were you watching the football then uh this week i know
00:41:14you're a footy fan i had a bit of a nightmare so i was in new york last week and i got back the day
00:41:20before the match and i was new york luggage truly did you take that to new york i've taken this to
00:41:26australia i've taken it to new york and every so often and i was like it's a pre-record so we recorded
00:41:32it months ago and it only came out last week and i was sort of wheeling this around going i am slightly
00:41:37wheeling around a spoiler yeah for richard osmond's house of games and occasionally i'd be putting it on
00:41:42the security tray and they go how'd you get that and i go oh well i couldn't possibly say how i got that
00:41:47actually um it was very belfast protocol of sort of saying nothing about the suitcase
00:41:56would you remember not to leave it there yes then don't leave it unattended yes i've learned that
00:42:00that's how i imagine that if i'd have been blown up i don't think any of them been blown up don't
00:42:06don't dare me richard i will i will blow up your suitcase um honestly collaborate with me on instagram
00:42:13we'll do we'll we'll do that that's now that'll go back and we'll both wink after it that's like my
00:42:20only thing
00:42:23so you so so i was so i was all said i've got okay man i'm gonna watch the match when i get back from
00:42:28new york it's gonna be great and i sat down had it on the tv and uh jet lag is a cruel mistress and i
00:42:34fell asleep just before kickoff and woke up and saw the final score during the reaction from the pundits
00:42:40so i've uh but i but i think it's good i don't think irish people are very like we're not used to
00:42:47this no winning very true well i mean england fans are but irish fans not so much well this because
00:42:52england fans they go to these tournaments and they get filled with expectation and i'm worried that we're
00:42:57getting filled with expectation because england fans like i live in london and it's very funny
00:43:02in the build-up to a tournament they're all like oh it's coming home and it never is
00:43:17fine richard applauding and that's the clip we'll use
00:43:23but i'm much more of a fan of like you know ireland like i i somehow like it when they don't make the
00:43:29tournament and we just have to support you know whoever england are against you know
00:43:35i've always been a huge fan of the former yukoslav republic of macedonia that's my boyhood team
00:43:42and they're a good bunch but you know i i do get in trouble for being a bit antagonistic to the english
00:43:46sometimes no i can see the competitive nature coming out here we actually have a little uh clip
00:43:50because you've played a bit yourself played a little bit of football and i'm hoping for a call-up
00:43:56for the game i mean to be to be honest i mean we got a clip here richard have a little look at this
00:44:00this is uh this is you with a charity game you're playing against dimitar berbatov yes one of the
00:44:05greatest bulgarians to ever kick a football that is correct and i i i just i'm not very good at
00:44:12football but i am what people would refer to as a cheeky bastard so i just took a notion to do
00:44:19something a bit mad okay here we go we've got a clip talk us through what's happening here so
00:44:23this is i picked up the ball a brilliant interception and i just nutmegged him oh wow
00:44:29because bulgaria look at that
00:44:36look at the celebration i played very cool i played very good i did patty i just kicked the ball away
00:44:45i kicked the ball away to somebody they might have been in the other team i did a lap of the pitch
00:44:50and got a high five from jason mcateer and i will take that to my grave you're uh you're saying there
00:45:02so you're living in england now you've got uh the girlfriend's english as well yeah
00:45:06no she's she's a good friend and we hang out me and my girlfriend she's she's lovely i think look
00:45:17all couples no matter nationality they all have little arguments and a classic little argument is
00:45:21like you know you took up more than half the bed that's a classic couple argument i don't know if you
00:45:25and simon i've had that you took up more than half the bed i certainly do
00:45:29we have bunk beds not married ireland not married
00:45:36but i just i feel like an english-irish relationship is the only one where she
00:45:39takes up more than half the bed and i call her a colonial bastard
00:45:44she'll move back but she will take six pillows
00:45:46maybe just a joke for the noughties and now you're going to sing four green duvets is that right
00:45:57all right good you you said somewhere that uh that you thought you i have a toxic trait with simon
00:46:03because yeah we have a very calm and loving relationship but when i have a few drinks
00:46:07i don't know if it's just me but i look at him and i genuinely think i'm like i could definitely take him
00:46:11like i really as a woman i'm like i could like you're bigger and stronger but i'm scrappier like
00:46:16i could definitely take you down and tomorrow we're going to find out simon so let's
00:46:23i'm so sorry richard this is
00:46:26this is taken taken a very antagonistic turn i'm i'm so sorry where this has gone for our visitors
00:46:32from overseas oh i love it i'm very i'm very comfortable you're fine with this yeah uh you saw
00:46:37this man in edinburgh uh back in the day you realized four or five years ago yeah i went to
00:46:42see him and uh he was so funny he was just terrific you could you could tell right away and i've you
00:46:47know i've worked in comedy for years and years and years and you can be like watching kyla now you can
00:46:51see where someone's got it uh and you've definitely got it and when i saw vittorio i i thought i can't
00:46:56wait to see where he's going in the next few years so lovely to have him now have a piece of luggage with
00:47:00my face on it which is that's essentially how i like to uh how i like to roll you'll have one you'll
00:47:06have one i don't want one okay i'll take a fondue set i'll take a fondue set yeah yeah for sure um
00:47:15you know one of the brilliant things like i i love watching your stand-up because it's like it's funny
00:47:19but it's open you'll just you're an open book you'll you know on stage you've talked about uh this kind
00:47:25of you know possibly being autistic where are you with all of that at the moment it's it's an interesting
00:47:30process trying trying to be autistic or trying to get autism i just got all the vaccines i'm hoping
00:47:40for the best um but it's funny because normally when you're not well you know you've you phone the
00:47:47doctor but when you think you have autism you still have to phone the doctor but normally you have
00:47:51symptoms you got a blocked nose you got a sore head you got all this stuff going on when you think you
00:47:54have autism you kind of have to phone the doctor and go hello i'm weird and he goes
00:48:00how weird clinically weird i believe and there's sort of a whole back and forward they send you
00:48:05out like a they chat to you and ask if you're the only person that thinks you have autism and i said
00:48:11no it's it's everyone on the internet my instagram messages are just people with autism telling me
00:48:16that i have autism and the messages don't start oh vittorio have you considered that you might
00:48:22the messages start thank you for representing our community um and uh but so you go through this and
00:48:29i'm currently the second round they send you to sort of application form for autism i don't think
00:48:33that's the the word that they use yes it felt like an application form i wrote a cover letter just in
00:48:38case and now i'm through to the third round this is where i currently am i'm through to the third i'm
00:48:42through the judges houses of autism um so fingers crossed i feel like it'll be sort of a simon cowell
00:48:48moment at the end where they go i'm really sorry to say you're riddled with it
00:48:55so so this is a real a real diagnosis a real process and it's been like there's really difficult
00:48:59parts to it and sort of looking back i mean we're building up to the toy show like you sort of look
00:49:04back at moments in your life where you go oh yeah that was probably a dead giveaway really and there's
00:49:08a story that my mom tells of when i was three years old uh sort of around this time of year
00:49:14the um mom came in and said like oh vittoria are you excited for santa and i turned around as a
00:49:20three-year-old and said i don't know why adults insist on lying to children okay so there's your
00:49:27diagnosis there i reckon yes and but these sort of you look back in these moments and you can have
00:49:32difficult social interactions and there's a worry that i don't want to be defined by it i think some
00:49:38people grab a hold of these diagnoses and go well this is my whole personality my whole identity and
00:49:43i'm very averse to that you know i'm very proud to be irish but it's not the only thing about me
00:49:47i'm very proud to be italian and part of that heritage but that's not the only thing about me
00:49:51either and i don't want this diagnosis to be sort of a coverall for the reasons i do
00:49:56everything i think i want to be my own person aside from that but that's just an element
00:50:00of who i am i think is the hope uh the new show is called you can't say anything anymore you can't
00:50:07say nothing can't say nothing very west belfast title yes yeah yeah it sort of plays on this idea
00:50:13of i get very frustrated and bored with comedians who say everybody's too woke nowadays and you can't
00:50:18say anything anymore because i just think it's complete nonsense i've performed all around the
00:50:22country all around the world and i find audiences are very receptive to material that can be controversial
00:50:28or difficult as long as you're quite skilled and caring with how you approach those topics and then
00:50:32there's the element of talking about the say nothing side of things because belfast is really
00:50:38on the global map at the minute and the global consciousness and just talking about this
00:50:43feeling of a younger generation in northern ireland having to redefine our identity because the defining
00:50:48characteristic for lots of people about northern ireland is the troubles but i didn't live through
00:50:52that i was born in 1996 so i think we've given a blank canvas to sort of decide what that means to us
00:50:59and whether that's me doing stand-up about it or kneecap rapping about it or all these different
00:51:04people who are dairy girls and you've had anto boy all these people and i just think it's exciting
00:51:10it's daunting but i think we have a real opportunity to write our own story on our own terms and that's
00:51:16part of what i'm trying to do with the show brilliant absolutely brilliant uh vittorio is taking a new
00:51:27show you can't say nothing anymore around ireland and britain uh from january next year you can see
00:51:32vittorio angeloni.com for more and you can listen to his podcast vittorio and mike's guide to parenting
00:51:39wherever you get your podcast one more time vittorio angeloni
00:51:49here we go oh here we go oh thank you so much
00:51:58i think it's time to give away two more two more tickets to the toy show uh who have we got on the
00:52:03line and and are you more excited than our first caller uh good evening ellen purcell from cork how
00:52:09you doing ellen ellen's not there ellen are you on the line ellen's not there now what do we do do we
00:52:23give ellen the tickets or do we have oh oh you are so cruel you are so cruel no oh no she didn't answer
00:52:31stuff her no no hang on will we give her another chance yeah she's she's not there oh are we going
00:52:39to give her the tickets we are going to give her the tickets we haven't got there you go
00:52:46so cruel a phone call from a northern irish man can be quite a threatening thing sometimes
00:52:53it's very true uh so ellen uh you have won the tickets uh she's not on the line i mean vittorio do
00:52:59you want to i mean my whole family are here and they are desperate okay you will not be getting
00:53:04those congratulations to uh ellen uh and by the way thanks to all our elves tonight for helping us
00:53:10out we have ryan we have paddy we have pippa we have nanza and we have eve and big stephen live right
00:53:20big stephen if you have won and fear not if you didn't win toy show tickets here's a chance to win
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00:54:31cash answer this well he's someone we all want to be friends with a hat trick from which troy
00:54:37catapulted the republic of ireland into the 2026 fifa world cup playoffs last weekend is it troy pigeon
00:54:43troy penguin or troy parrot to enter call 15 17 71 71 81 or text the word late followed by your answer
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00:54:56rte.ie forward slash competitions the lines will close at 10 50 tonight we'll be calling the lucky
00:55:01winner before the end of the show and you'll need to take that call if you want to win the prize good
00:55:05luck still to come country star lisa mhugh will tell us of learning to sing again and it could be you
00:55:13we'll be giving away even more toy show tickets we will be back after these
00:55:27and welcome back to the late show uh tonight our toy show elves are on the road to deliver our final
00:55:45toy show tickets could it be you we're going to be finding out very very soon but first my next guest
00:55:52is one of our most loved country singers who this year faced the fight of her life when she became
00:55:58unable to sing and unable to walk we are delighted however to say that with strength and determination
00:56:03she's come out the other side she joins us tonight to share her story would you please welcome lisa mccue
00:56:09there we go you got a few fans in tonight lisa how you doing i'm doing good thank you how are you yeah
00:56:31all good all good uh ireland's now home uh been home for 15 years yeah can you believe it i can't
00:56:39believe it it's a can you believe i sound like i'm from here that long well you think whenever there's
00:56:44a tiny bit of glass coming in there isn't there yeah a wee bit yeah i've been here now as you say 15
00:56:49years and i was welcomed with open arms back then and i really do i call this my home now i really love it
00:56:58uh so ireland's your home and when it comes to your life it is just music and family and
00:57:02those are the two things which you just love more than anything else but at the start of this year
00:57:09something happened uh which life took an unexpected turn can you tell us what happened in january
00:57:15yeah um well for those of you that don't know i have two children milo will be four now in january
00:57:22and i have hallie who is just over one and a half and when hallie was born um she went through quite a
00:57:29rough time we were in nicu for 10 days and then she got rsv last november and she got it four times
00:57:38after that so we were in and out of hospital all the time and it was very stressful and in january of this
00:57:46year i was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia which is a severe facial pain i didn't know what it was
00:57:53at the time i just knew that it was so sore so i went to the doctor and she said yeah your symptoms
00:57:59sound like you've got trigeminal neuralgia and she gave me medication and it managed to keep it at bay
00:58:07but from then on we were still very stressed with hallie because she was she had acid reflux
00:58:13she had lots of allergies she was still getting lots of illnesses in and out of hospital trying
00:58:18to go back to work do my singing be a mom be a wife be a daughter and i essentially burnt myself
00:58:26out completely and in june of this year i felt very unwell got another flare-up of trigeminal neuralgia
00:58:34and one saturday evening after a week of feeling really not well i was sitting on the sofa
00:58:41mom and dad were minding the kids they were making dinner for them and i just felt my left leg was
00:58:48just so heavy all of a sudden and i tried to lift my left leg and it wouldn't go anywhere but i could
00:58:55see my muscles tensing but it still wouldn't move and then i tried to lift the right one and it went up
00:59:02and i tried again and it wouldn't go anywhere and i says mom i i can't i can't move my leg and she says
00:59:08what do you mean you can't move your leg and she asked me to show her and she was like right straight
00:59:12in the car and up to the doctors straight into A&E and they done tests for stroke and they were
00:59:21they done all the cts the bloods the mris everything but everything came back normal we actually have
00:59:27you you had you took a few pictures and posted some of this uh on on your phone here so this is
00:59:35this is you in the summer so this is uh that's that night yeah so that's that one so you can
00:59:41lift one but then it got worse yeah so within a space of a few hours after and being in A&E the
00:59:48doctor was examining me and she asked me to lift my left leg it wouldn't go anywhere and then she
00:59:53asked me to lift my right leg and it wouldn't go anywhere either so both of them were gone within
00:59:58the space of two or three hours and the face the facial pain and the pain in my head was excruciating
01:00:04so they were giving me morphine um diazepam oxygen tramadol everything to try and get on top of the
01:00:11pain and to try and find out what was the reason that my symptoms were escalating so quickly but they
01:00:18just they couldn't get to the bottom of it because the results were coming back normal i mean that must
01:00:23have just been the most frightening thing it was scary it was scary but i think i was in so much
01:00:30pain at that time that i didn't really properly think about what was going on i would just wanted
01:00:35them to get on top of the pain but the longer it went on the longer i was in hospital i was in for 10
01:00:40days and you know the realization of i can't get out of bed i need nurses to physically lift my legs
01:00:49off the bed into a wheelchair to go to the bathroom to shower i couldn't physically do anything for
01:00:55myself anymore and the longer that went on that was then when it started to set and i was thinking to
01:01:02myself okay how what are we going to do here to get back on our feet and so the diagnosis was
01:01:09functional neurological disorder okay basically means that there's a nervous system problem and
01:01:17your brain is not sending the signals properly to your limbs or to your body it's essentially they call
01:01:23it a software problem in your brain and not a hardware problem um but it's when you know they do all
01:01:30the examinations they do the bloods they do the cts and your the results come back normal but your
01:01:37symptoms are very real you know people have seizures they have speech problems they have tremors they
01:01:43have weakness which is what i have and i had never heard of it before when i was diagnosed i'd never
01:01:50heard of it at all but since i have shared my story the thousands of messages that i have had from
01:01:57people to say that they're going through something similar and they've been sent home and they've no
01:02:02help they don't know where to turn or what to do and they're really really struggling it's it's mind
01:02:09blowing that the amount of people that are so ill and have you any idea what what brought it on
01:02:14purely stress yeah stress and burnout you know and you know i'm doing what i am doing and i love
01:02:21to do is touring as you well know touring around the country and you you know you you're eating at the
01:02:26wrong times you're eating the wrong food you're not getting enough sleep and you're going home then
01:02:31late at night and you're getting up first thing in the morning with the kids being mum again and then
01:02:37you're going to do the shop and in the local the shop you're you're trying to squeeze in everything
01:02:42and wear every hat you can and in that time i just completely forgot about looking after myself
01:02:49so it was a huge wake-up call i mean seeing you walk out here tonight i mean after seeing that that
01:02:57you just you know couldn't move at all i mean that that's amazing like what was the what was the moment
01:03:03when was the moment that that you felt you turned the corner uh one singular moment for me was when i was
01:03:11introduced to a man called um michael d'oherty and i was at home i was off my feet for a month at this
01:03:21stage and you know when you're at night and you're thinking how am i going to get better because
01:03:27you're sent home and it's there's no recovery plan there's no strategy there's no one saying
01:03:32you're going to go here and this is going what's going to happen it's a case of this is what you've got
01:03:37go home and try and recover you probably have relapses but it's just a case of you know kind
01:03:42of just getting on with it and i really wasn't willing to accept that as an answer and i was
01:03:48introduced to michael d'oherty who basically put the team the medical team around me from the beginning
01:03:57he asked what my symptoms were he asked the medication i was on he asked what tests were done
01:04:02and you know simple things like could there be something in your mouth to do with your teeth
01:04:08that are that's contributing so he basically started again and asked all the questions and
01:04:14and built you up a treatment program yeah he tried to get to the root of the problem and this was you
01:04:18know you're also getting occupational therapy and yes yeah he put the the team around me with
01:04:23occupational therapy with physio and it's purely an integrated you know strategy including all the
01:04:29the medics and the professionals and michael and i 100 percent know that without his help
01:04:38i i wouldn't be where i am today i definitely know that so i i have so much to thank him for
01:04:44and this team and kira our occupational therapist as well and everyone who's been amazing
01:04:49uh you shared your story online um i know you're saying that that got quite the reaction
01:04:56it's been unbelievable you know from the very first video i shared the amount of flowers and messages
01:05:04and cards and mass cards and prayers and phone calls and it's honestly and it's still still happening
01:05:11to this day you know i have always said i have the best fans in the world and you know you can say oh
01:05:17that's really cliche to say that but i genuinely i couldn't have got through the last few months without
01:05:23you know all the support all the prayers all the you know messages and they really have kept me going
01:05:31i mean it's good to see you you know back it's good to see uh uh you know you've you've got that's
01:05:37you know bit of a twinkle uh back in your eye you're ready to to get back out there and perform again
01:05:42i'm getting there i'm getting there i don't want to give anyone the impression that i've waved a magic
01:05:47wand and you know everything is 100 again because i'm definitely still on the recovery journey um
01:05:53still get tired i'm still you know doing small bits and then rest and i have to manage my energy
01:05:59and i have to completely change the way my life is and it has and the way it will be going forward
01:06:06and yeah i enjoy you know singing as i always have done and i want to do more of that
01:06:11um but i really have to ease myself in gently and look after myself okay uh would you mind if we ask
01:06:17you to ease yourself into tonight and give us a wee tune yeah there's nothing like pressure from the
01:06:23late late show no there's not like pressure uh yeah yeah okay here we go uh we're going to get uh as
01:06:34tag uh ties coming in here uh you're guitarist and you're going to give us a wee tune here what is
01:06:40this given the given the fact that we're all on the christmas spirit tonight i thought um i'll
01:06:50sing a song i actually wrote myself with a good friend of mine katrina burgoyne it's a christmas song
01:06:55and we released a few years ago it's called home with a heartbeat
01:07:08i used to be those little feet the hands tugging at the bed sheets the voice the bangs come on see
01:07:21the gifts that he left by the tree but now the season means so much more i can see what christmas is for
01:07:35not tinsel the bells or a wreath on the door or mistletoe i'm in the hall
01:07:45it's that time of year when you bring family near and when hope is a gift guaranteed
01:07:54it's more than the fire that warms you inside it's the love and the comfort it brings
01:08:03when a house isn't just a place on the street it feels like a home with a heartbeat
01:08:14i can't wait to hear those little feet to feel their hands tugging at my bed sheets
01:08:29to hear a voice beg me to come on and see and wake up in a home with a heartbeat
01:08:41to hear a voice beg me to come on and see and wake up in a home with a heartbeat
01:08:53i'll give it up one more time nice to mckay
01:09:09thank you tag okay time now for you all at home to hide the takeaway behind the sofa wipe the curry sauce
01:09:17off your pajamas it is our toy show helper danny elf is about to knock on an unsuspecting door
01:09:25and give someone a huge toy show surprise say a prayer for all on board danny elf are you there
01:09:32can you give us a little hint so hang on this is a hint of roughly where we are this evening
01:09:38to give away our golden tickets tonight if you recognize where this is
01:09:43she's closing in on our toy show target could it be you after the break we are going to be surprising
01:09:50someone at home and there's also a pair of toy show tickets for somebody in the audience oh yeah
01:09:58you're interested now we'll be back right after these don't go away
01:10:11welcome back to the little hl where our toy show elf is on the road to give one lucky viewer a toy
01:10:27show surprise selected completely at random from the hundreds of thousands of viewers who applied for
01:10:34our late late toy show big big giveaway so if you applied and you recognize this house let's have a
01:10:43little look hang on we're at the door here there is danny elf okay let's see is there anybody in is
01:10:52there oh hang on oh there we go hello hello francis francis how you doing i'm really really good
01:11:02thanks very much great i don't usually look like this but i was at a show i was in a production and i'm
01:11:09raised home because i had a gut feeling okay you had a good you had a good feeling there and uh you've
01:11:15got what's on the scarf there is that dogs or reindeers or or what have you got that's that's dogs
01:11:21and this is my this is my gay costume show for for a local production that we're doing give a little
01:11:27love and and is that a cup of cocoa or is there something stronger in there that's a cup of tea
01:11:33that's a cup of tea yes a cup of tea uh well look uh congratulations you are coming our way we're
01:11:38going to be seeing you uh there's your tickets you're on your way to the toy show on the 5th of december
01:11:43there she is oh well done well done folks so that is our final pair of uh of toy of toy show
01:12:01oh hang on or or or is it oh yeah i uh yeah i almost forgot i've uh i've still got these tickets so
01:12:09uh if you like the tickets maybe who would like to stand up for these tickets if you want to just
01:12:13stand up there there we go okay oh they're all up now it is time to find out one lucky audience member
01:12:21who has entered they've registered they've been selected at random we're about to find out who it
01:12:27is so here we go stay standing if you live in the midlands oh people people from leiterman wexford going
01:12:37just there we go stay standing if you're a man
01:12:44stay standing if you live in mullingar
01:12:50they're falling like flies finally i love the way i said stay standing if you're a man and three women
01:13:01still going i'm still here this is great okay finally stay standing if you have a dog at home that is
01:13:10called willow willow willow there we go you do sir there we go okay let's sneak in here
01:13:20how you how are you getting on i'm very well thanks great can you give us your name uh john john
01:13:25and uh uh john uh do you know what these are i think i do yeah there we go these are two tickets
01:13:31for the toy show congratulations we're going to be seeing you i know you i know you better take the
01:13:45wife but if you can't go i think we've got some people they might also want to go give it up one
01:13:49more time for john there we go okay
01:13:58now don't worry uh at home if you have registered for toy show tickets you haven't heard from us
01:14:04yet check your email right now we are sending out to the group there could be a pair of tickets
01:14:13sitting in your inbox as we speak now look look at the audience all sitting there pretending to be
01:14:18happy for john secretly gutted look at them don't worry we've also got something for you tonight
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01:14:59very own special christmas memories for everybody in the audience
01:15:14just in time just in time uh okay time uh we just got time to find out uh who has won the trip uh to
01:15:22faith leg and five thousand euros in cash uh mark mcconnell from lucan county dublin how are you getting
01:15:28on mark how you doing patrick how are you i'm absolutely delighted you're delighted that's that that's
01:15:35great uh who are you going to bring with you uh my partner my partner jen brilliant okay look
01:15:42congratulations uh you're on your way for the break you're on the way to the toy show uh we will be back to do it
01:15:48all again next week until then this has been the late day toy uh it hasn't been the toy show i'm
01:15:53getting ahead of myself i'm getting giddy uh we'll see you next week i'm patrick keelty thank you very
01:15:58much good night thank you
01:16:17you
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