{"id":241763,"date":"2025-12-19T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/241763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:34:09","slug":"ryan-tubridy-attempts-to-reinvent-himself-on-youtube-will-it-work-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/241763\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy attempts to reinvent himself on YouTube. Will it work? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Tubridy<\/a> has delivered his biggest bombshell since he swore at a bottle of Fanta on the Late Late Toy Show<\/a>. Twelve days after tying the knot<\/a> with former Rose of Tralee Clare Kambamettu, the former RT\u00c9<\/a> star has revealed he is stepping down<\/a> from his midmorning slot on Virgin Radio in the UK<\/a> and will host a new YouTube<\/a> show.<\/p>\n

Yes, YouTube. A platform best known for live streamers who need a shower, ASMR artists who need a life and whatever it is MrBeast<\/a> does, is about to be drawn into the Ryan Tubridy expanded universe. It\u2019s a surprise \u2013 but is it also a step down for a personality who was once one of Ireland\u2019s highest-paid broadcasters<\/a>?<\/p>\n

That might not be the case. While YouTube is still synonymous with niche content and nattering oddballs, it is also increasingly regarded as the future of broadcasting. That is what Tubridy will hope as he counts down to the debut at an unspecific date next year of The Late Show with Ryan Tubridy.<\/p>\n

The title is a wink to his 14 years at the helm of the Late Late Show<\/a>, though the format is very different. The new series will see him \u201clook back\u201d at the lives of well-known figures in film, music, sport and television. He will chat with journalists and authors who have in-depth knowledge of the individual at hand, and the interviews will be broadcast on YouTube and Times Radio, part of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s<\/a> News UK media empire.<\/p>\n

Tubridy is also developing a new show for talkSPORT \u2013 likewise owned by News UK \u2013 and in Ireland, he will front a new weekend programme across the Onic network, including Dublin\u2019s Q102, Cork\u2019s 96FM, Limerick\u2019s Live 95 and LMFM. <\/p>\n

These announcements follow suggestions that Tubridy was set for a return to RT\u00c9 as the new anchor of the arts and culture show Arena. But RT\u00c9 dismissed claims that it was lining him up as a permanent successor to the late Se\u00e1n Rocks<\/a> (Rick O\u2019Shea is presently hosting Arena on an interim basis). Despite official denials, rumours of a Montrose comeback are likely to intensify given that the contract of Tubridy\u2019s Late Late successor, Patrick Kielty<\/a>, is up for renewal in 2026.<\/p>\n

Kielty has not spoken about his future. Should he wish to step away from the Late Late, might Tubridy be the natural candidate? Tubridy has certainly worked at mending his bridges with RT\u00c9. Over the summer, he had repaid<\/a> the \u20ac150,000 he received through the notorious \u201cbarter account\u201d \u2013 the scandal that led to his departure from Ireland in the first place.<\/p>\n

Such speculation may be premature given that Kielty could well still be making up his mind whether he wishes to stick or twist on the Late Late. Moreover, YouTube has the potential to attract a far larger audience than an ailing Friday night variety show.<\/p>\n

Tubridy will be aware of the success his friend Piers Morgan<\/a> has had with his stand-alone YouTube show, Piers Morgan Uncensored. As with Tubridy\u2019s forthcoming Late Show, Uncensored was initially bankrolled by News UK, which paid Morgan a reported \u00a350 million (\u20ac57 million) over three years before he secured the rights to it from the company. Morgan has revealed that he was convinced to \u201cgo full-fledged\u201d on YouTube after observing his children\u2019s viewing habits.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Ryan Tubridy still has the Tiggerish verve and breezy name-drops. So why does it feel sour?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of them watch YouTube,\u201d he said. \u201cNone of them watch actual television, other than for live sport. Until a year ago, I was trudging into an old-fashioned, structured, 8pm live news show, when in fact there was no need to do that. It was a very expensive way of disseminating something I can do to a global audience, a lot cheaper \u2013 but also much faster and much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tubridy\u2019s Virgin Radio show was not a runaway success (just 24,000 listened to its broadcast on Q102 in Ireland), and he was earning a lot less than the half a million he was at one point receiving from RT\u00c9 (his Virgin salary was estimated to be in the range of \u20ac57,550 to \u20ac92,000). In the cut-throat world of British morning radio, he was perhaps a bit too old-school to succeed. But YouTube is big enough for all sorts of talents \u2013 or so Tubridy will hope as the \u201cToy Man\u201d attempts to become the \u201cYouTube Man\u201d and reinvent himself all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy has delivered his biggest bombshell since he swore at a bottle of Fanta on the Late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,48706,48707,3409,72149,1181,26666,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-241763","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-late-late-show","13":"tag-late-late-toy-show","14":"tag-patrick-kielty","15":"tag-piers-morgan","16":"tag-rte","17":"tag-ryan-tubridy","18":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115748619201503138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241763","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=241763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}