The line-up for this week's Late Late Show has been announced and includes four of the contestants taking part in next year's Dancing with the Stars - and that's just for starters!
In a week when she hit the headlines, leader of the opposition and president of Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald joins Ryan Tubridy in studio to discuss the party's performance in the polls, what a united Ireland might look like and her reaction to Shane Ross's biography about her.
It’s been a big year for Ireland women's football manager Vera Pauw as she created history by guiding the national team to its first-ever appearance at a World Cup finals, in Australia and New Zealand next summer.
She will join Ryan to talk about life since that big night in Scotland and how she feels about 2023.
Singer and Eurovision star Brooke Scullion, former GAA player Paul Brogan, businesswoman, TV presenter and influencer Suzanne Jackson, and drag artist and activist Panti Bliss (aka Rory O'Neill) will be chatting to Ryan about being the class of 2023, who’s already the one-to-watch, and who plans on wearing the most sequins!
Dancing with the Stars returns in January, and viewers will see the first four celebrity dancers who'll take to the dancefloor hoping to lift that glitterball trophy next year.
After nearly 50 years in the business, British comedian Lenny Henry will chat about singing with Kate Bush, writing a children's novel and an autobiography, as well as having an Irish accent in The Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power.
One of last week's Toy Show superstars, Saoibh Lonergan, joins Ryan on the couch to catch up after a hectic week and tells us about hanging out with her music therapist Alison, singing at Temple Street Hospital and planning her trip to Disneyland Paris!
Plus, Andrea Corr will be live in studio to perform It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas from her new release The Christmas Album while Col Patterson makes his Late Late debut performing his critically acclaimed single Bedford Falls.
The Late Late Show, RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, Friday, 9:35pm
