Take a look back at some of Gay Byrne's bt moments on The Late Late Toy Show.
Contents:
- LATE LATE TOY SHOW: GAY BYRNE'S BT MOMENTS
- ‘GAY SAID “NO, WE ARE NOT DOG A TOY SLOT”’ – MEET THE WOMAN BEHD LATE LATE TOY SHOW’S CREATN
- HOW GAY BYRNE VENTED THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW
- GAY BYRNE'S FT MOMENTS ON THE LATE LATE SHOW
LATE LATE TOY SHOW: GAY BYRNE'S BT MOMENTS
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Gay Byrne was reluctant at first to have toys on The Late Late Show, but his team persuad him that would make good seasonal viewg. One eveng back 1974 as Pan Colls hurried through Stillan village somethg ught her wdows of Nimble Fgers toy shop l up before her, and, as she phed through the ont door, an ia flashed across her followg week, Pan, a senr rearcher and script edor on The Late Late Show, gathered her not, and pched an ia to her boss, producer and prenter Gay Byrne. Gay was not imprsed, and turned Pan knew a good ia, and stead of acceptg feat she cid to rally the she went straight to Mra was Gay’s right-hand woman for 30 years; she acted as special assistant, programme executive, artist liaison officer, and all-round Late Late Show was the person who ed the phrase ‘Aaand There’s One for Everybody the Audience’, and joed Gay the RTÉ nteen before each programme for his rual plate of egg and Pan uld get Mra onsi, then her toy segment uld bee a realy.
“Gay said ‘No, we are not dog a toy slot’, ” Mra Colls pictured 1966. I said to Gay, ‘Look, what do Christmas mean?
Dpe Gay’s ial rervatns, was the hight-ratg sectn of any show across the entire proved so popular that when was brought back the followg year — on December 13, 1975 — beme a special programme today is a juggernt; the fn of entertament event viewg, pullg ratgs of 1. The theme is nsired tantamount to a state secret, and a team of toy tters spend weeks makg sure batteri are fully Connolly, who was Gay Byrne's right-hand woman, pictured last year. ”When Gay cid on the date for the Toy Show, was all systems team would discs the toys — which were gog to be the most popular wh the kids, and which would make for the bt had his favour; Buzz Off — a gadget where players had to try and manovre around a wire whout settg off a buzzer, and super soakers, which he ed to doe the stud dience wh.
‘GAY SAID “NO, WE ARE NOT DOG A TOY SLOT”’ – MEET THE WOMAN BEHD LATE LATE TOY SHOW’S CREATN
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”In the early years rearchers had meo rol on air and would monstrate how the toys would be d palpatns if dolls or actn men were glossed over, or if they malfunctned live on air and Gay tossed them asi. “You see, if Gay gave a good mentn was sold out, ” Colman says. ”Throughout the 26 years that Gay helmed the show, nstantly evolved.
HOW GAY BYRNE VENTED THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW
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“We brought entertament, and Gay asked any children who were terted performg to send a tape and a bg. Mra remembers tryg to do somethg siar durg the early days but receivg a missive om the Director General tellg them to thks the key to Gay’s skill as a broadster was his abily to let the person he was speakg wh e to the foreground.
GAY BYRNE'S FT MOMENTS ON THE LATE LATE SHOW
“Gay always tried to fa to the background and tried to brg the people forward, ” she says.
”Gay’s fal Toy Show was 1998, and then was taken over by Pat Kenny — who famoly ripped up a pair of tickets for the Toy Show when a ller was ls than enthiastic about wng was a hard act to follow but the show grew numbers durg Pat’s 10 years (om 1999 to 2008). It also created some extremely memorable moments — like when he ro an elephant onto the set or when Girls Aloud accintally trmatised a child live on though Pat and Gay enjoyed hostg the Toy Show, Ryan Tubridy’s enthiasm for seems on a different level altogether.
“Gay enjoyed the Toy Show, ” Colman says. You’d hear him on the Gay Byrne Hour sayg, ‘The Toy Show is this Friday, Lord help ’.