Ryan Tubridy has revealed when he thinks he'll leave the Late Late Show as he prepares to celebrate his 50th birthday next year.<\/p>\n
The Dublin native has been the face of RTE's longest-running show for 13 years after taking over from Pat Kenny in 2009. Ryan admitted he doesn't think he'll be presenting the show for another decade.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the RTE Season Launch ahead of the Late Late's return this Friday, Ryan gave an insight into how he views his future with the show.<\/p>\n
'Im going to be 50 in May and that is important. That is going to feature in my thought process. This is my 14th year. I did five years on Tubridy Tonight so, yeah, I think I will be keeping an eye on everything in the next number of years.<\/p>\n
'It wont be today or tomorrow so Im not going anywhere yet. But I dont see a decade in it... I think when the hunger stops, the game is over. I am still ambitious. The show still matters to me. I have something slightly more to prove to myself as well,' he said. <\/p>\n
Ryan hopes that he 'can be a little bit better' on the show this season, despite leading the show through an unprecedented pandemic in recent years.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on how the pandemic affected his view of life, Ryan said: 'It gave me pause for thought. I dont want to be running on a treadmill as a much older person at all. I want to enjoy life as much as I do now.<\/p>\n
'And when I finish on the Late Late Show I am going to pursue other projects. I play parlour game tricks on myself about what they might be but its all dreamland. I dont want to be older and burned out. I want to be older and excited still.'<\/p>\n
The last season of the show saw Ryan caught in the middle of a controversy after quizzing Derry Girls star Jamie Lee-ODonnell about her age. Ryan said he had no regrets over how he asks questions and believes people will slowly move away from extreme political correctness.<\/p>\n
He explained: 'Thats the current climate we live in. How long will it last? It will last [until] people get bored. It will last as long as people feel the answers are becoming more sanitised and people can no longer be themselves.<\/p>\n
'I think viewers and listeners and readers will eventually say \"Enough. We want people to be themselves. Please stop censoring and sanitising\".<\/p>\n
'I think when you are an interviewer [the question is] can you go to sleep at night knowing that you asked every question fairly, with good reason and without malice and if you can do that you sleep easy. And I sleep easy.'<\/p>\n
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