Michelle Rocca and Pat Kenny will present Eurovision Song Contest.
A busy working mother with two children, Michelle Rocca combines a modelling career with work as a continuity announcer for RTÉ and also helps out with her family's business, Rocca Tiles. She never actively worked towards presenting the Eurovision Song Contest, but this is where life has brought her.
I'm very honoured to be asked.
The interview process included language tests as well as ensuring Michelle Rocca knew the Eurovision Song Contest voting rules inside out. This did not deter the former Miss Ireland who is a graduate of University College Dublin (UCD) and speaks fluent Italian and French. She also speaks German and is brushing up her Irish by listening to lessons on tape, as well as help from a teacher.
What lies in store for her after Eurovision? She would like to try her hand at presenting television shows,
I was going to ask could I co-host The Late Late with you sometime.
They are joined in studio by Pat Kenny, who will co-host Eurovision with Michelle, taking a brief break from presenting the RTÉ current affairs programme 'Today Tonight’ and the weekday current affairs show ‘Today At Five’ on RTÉ Radio One. Thoughts of two hundred million people across Europe watching him on 30 April is enough to give an experienced broadcaster like him the jitters,
The prospect of doing it is terrifying.
This episode of The Late Late Show was broadcast on 19 February 1988. The presenter is Gay Byrne.
Eurovision presenters Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca (1988)
