{"id":421041,"date":"2026-04-05T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/421041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:06:21","slug":"patrick-kieltys-future-in-rte-up-in-the-air-as-star-refuses-to-say-whether-he-has-signed-a-deal-to-continue-as-late-late-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/421041\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kielty\u2019s future in RT\u00c9\u00a0up in the air as star\u00a0refuses to say\u00a0whether he has signed a deal to continue as &#8216;Late Late\u2019 host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Station chief Kevin Bakhurst wants host to remain on primetime show, but it\u2019s believed no contract has been signed yet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Kielty has declined to say if he will stay on as 'Late Late' host. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sn Paddy Kielty.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Patrick Kielty has declined to say if he will stay on as &#8216;Late Late&#8217; host. Photo: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Will he stay or will he go? The Late Late Show host Patrick\u2019s Kielty\u2019s three-year contract is coming to an end in the coming weeks, with no sign of a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When contacted by the Sunday Independent, both Kielty and RT\u00c9 refused to say whether an agreement had been reached for Kielty to continue hosting the flagship show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Station chief Kevin Bakhurst wants host to remain on primetime show, but it\u2019s believed no contract has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[2836,9441,18,117,19,17,24510,16036,5364,3409,4574,1181,26666,5951,30168,128],"class_list":["post-421041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cat-deeley","tag-colin-farrell","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessie-buckley","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-niamh-horan","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-patrick-odonovan","tag-rte","tag-ryan-tubridy","tag-shane-lowry","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116350837805671179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421041","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=421041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}