{"id":464465,"date":"2026-05-02T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:48:12","slug":"patrick-kieltys-contract-renewal-a-bit-on-the-late-late-side-as-delays-in-rte-boss-kevin-bakhursts-pay-bump-talks-hold-up-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464465\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kielty\u2019s contract renewal a bit on the \u2018Late Late\u2019 side as delays in RT\u00c9 boss Kevin Bakhurst\u2019s pay bump talks hold up progress"},"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\">Season\u2019s final show aired last night with no new deal agreed for host\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Kielty is expected to return as 'Late Late' host in the autumn. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/122413074.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 is expected to return as &#8216;Late Late&#8217; host in the autumn. 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)\">Patrick Kieity wrapped up his third season presenting The Late Late Show last night, but there is still no sign of a new deal for him to continue on as host.<\/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)\">It is understood a pay rise for RT\u00c9 boss Kevin Bakhurst appears to be holding up the show. The director general is due to get a \u20ac20,000 bump in pay, taking him to \u20ac270,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season\u2019s final show aired last night with no new deal agreed for host Patrick Kielty is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,18613,19,17,26736,16036,3409,4574,1181,26666,30168,128],"class_list":["post-464465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-chambers","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-patrick-odonovan","tag-rte","tag-ryan-tubridy","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464465","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=464465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}