Maria Walsh has insisted she was happy with the TV3 Toy Show – despite negative backlash.
The festive TV event which was fronted by the former Rose of Tralee and Brian Ormond was hit with a stream of negative comments online – with some calling it a rip off of RTE’s Late Late Toy Show.
“What I did, with the performance I gave I was happy out with it so I can’t ask for any more,” she told Goss.ie.
Happy: Maria said she was happy with the reaction from children for TV3’s Toy Show | VIPIRELAND.COM
“If I Google Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh you’re going to find a hell of a lot more under that search term than TV3 Toy Show about both positive and negative and that comes in every shape and form.
“I was definitely keeping an eye on it, it’s a hot topic with The Late Late Toy Show on Friday night.
“I’m decent friends with Ryan (Tubridy) because we’re part of the same agency and I was on the show three times last year, we have a great relationship but we’re not dumb,” she explained.
Hot topic: Maria said she understood the attention the TV3 Toy Show received | VIPIRELAND.COM
“The Late Late is an institution and the Toy show has been knocking around many many years, I was delighted with the way the young people reacted to [the TV3 Toy Show] since,” she admitted.
Speaking at the Alex and Ani Talk Series in Dublin’s Fallon and Byrne, the brunette beauty said she was more interested in what children thought of the show.
“I was eager to ask young people what they felt about it because that was who our market was,” she said.
Filter: Maria admitted she filtered out the negative commentary online| VIPIRELAND.COM
“A lot of the young kids I would of met in the last few days are like ‘I loved so and so, they were a great toy tester or this performance was great.’
“On Twitter there was a lot of mixed [reactions], our ratings were pretty decent and they [TV3] were happy,” she added.
“You do have it but you do filter [it out] what was actual and what was someone just having a rant.”
