{"id":218413,"date":"2025-12-06T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T10:50:09","slug":"roy-keane-shows-class-with-brilliant-late-late-toy-show-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218413\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane Shows Class With Brilliant Late Late Toy Show Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would not be The Late Late Toy Show without a marquee sporting cameo and 2025 was no different as Ireland football hero Roy Keane made a surprise appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the greatest ever midfielder to don the green jersey, and one of the top personalities in football, Keane gave two young lads a night to remember for a lifetime on the beloved Christmas show.<\/p>\n<p>Keelan and Dylan, the epitome of friendship, both did a mean Lewis Capaldi impression when behind the mic.<\/p>\n<p>Capaldi, speaking from Australia, then invited them to his Dublin gig as VIP guests next year, bringing the pair to tears of joy.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The moment when the lads shared their tissue to wipe their tears was particularly emotional viewing and it did not end there.<\/p>\n<p>The deserving duo were then met with the first in studio appearance from an Irish sporting great &#8211; none other than Roy Keane.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who had Roy Keane on their bingo list??? I screamed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LateLateToyShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LateLateToyShow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i9xD2Xn57D\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/i9xD2Xn57D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Labhaoise (@labhaoise99) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labhaoise99\/status\/1997068719173116093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Met by chants of &#8216;Keano&#8217; from the crowd, the Cork native offered the two lads words of encouragement as they sought to win toys for other kids across the country.<\/p>\n<p>And they did just that in one of the most wholesome moments of TV that anyone could ask for.<\/p>\n<p>Class stuff.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/the-rewind\/late-late-toy-show-sports-455000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Most Memorable Sporting Cameos From The Late Late Toy Show<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would not be The Late Late Toy Show without a marquee sporting cameo and 2025 was no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5788],"class_list":{"0":"post-218413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-roy-keane"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115672241434773376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}