Nothing escaped COVID-19’s impact this year and the Late Late Toy Show was no exception. Ryan Tubridy will thankfully get to plough ahead presenting his twelfth consecutive year of Christmas madness but he recounted how this year’s show very nearly ‘didn’t happen’.
Ahead of the festive fun kicking off, he detailed the ‘grit, determination [and] diligence’ that his RTÉ team put in to make sure the show came to fruition despite every obstacle thrown at them.
Tubridy also shared how the team have made it COVID compliant and thankfully, he assured us it’s not going to be as Zoom-reliant as we initially expected.
Probed as to whether he’d be worried about viewership figures, it couldn’t be further from his mind as he said, ‘I think the