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RTE star Ryan Tubridy has removed the rumors that he will be leaving his main job soon.
The veteran broadcaster has made it clear that he has no intention of giving up his coveted role on The Late Late Show.
Last year, speculation abounded that her colleague Claire Byrne would replace Tubs and she was forced to set the record straight at that point.
But the host of the chat show has insisted that he plans to stay at work much longer, telling RSVP Live, “I could turn 150 and then I’m out of here.”
Ryan was diagnosed with Covid-19 in March and was forced to take two weeks off work, where he was replaced by Miriam O’Callaghan on screen and Oliver Callan on radio.
Co-anchors, Dr. Ciara Kelly and Claire Byrne, have spoken about the long-lasting effects of the disease, but she feels fine more than six months later because her case was mild.
He explained: “I had a persistent cough and it never turned into a headache or flu-like symptom.
“In fact, I was just eating Lockets and drinking Lemsip thinking it was a common cold.”
However, Ryan was “nervous” and “shocked” when he received the initial call from the experts to say that he had tested positive for the virus.
The RTE star continued, “And then I got the phone call to say it was positive and I was quite surprised.”
“The phone call made me nervous because it’s not one you want to receive and I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to be a positive test.
“When I hear about other people’s experiences, they have had a much worse time than me.
“People I work with have told me I looked quite shocked at the time, which I take as a loving compliment rather than a judgment on my exhaustion.”
After The Late Late Show returned to screens after its usual summer hiatus last month, Ryan was quick to clarify that his Christmas spinoff, The Late Late Toy Show, was in no danger of being eliminated.
The much-loved announcer said it would definitely hit screens as planned later this year.
The slogan “one for all in the audience” is synonymous with The Late Late Toy Show and, with no live audience in the studio, Tubs was asked if we will see deliveries to frontline workers and their children instead.
“We will be boxing very smartly and there are very good people at the helm of the program this year,” Ryan said.
“You are in the money there, what you mentioned there is on the line of where we could go.”
Read the full interview with Ryan in this month’s issue of RSVP Magazine, on shelves now.
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