Ryan Tubridy has hit back after it was revealed that The Late Late Valentine’s special received hundreds of complaints.
On Friday night, singletons sat in the audience at the RTE studio – but over 300 complaints were made about the show.
“A lot of the headlines bely the success of that show,” he said.
Success: Ryan hit back at complaints made about Friday night’s Late Late Show | ANDRES POVEDA
The RTE star explained that despite the complaints, almost half of people watching TV in Ireland were tuned in to the show on Friday night.
“The show actually went down very well and it got 46 percent share which is enormous and which is a very, very good result indeed,” he told RTE Radio 1 listeners.
“Yes of course a number of people complained but actually bigger numbers watched it and seemed to enjoy it and the story that seems to have emerged from that programme is that, well to me, it’s a tale of two Irelands.
“One Ireland is full of under 50s who thought it was a hoot and another Ireland full of over 50s who thought a little less of it in that sense.”
Change up: The presenter explained that RTE switches up the shows every now and again | ANDRES POVEDA
Ryan continued that they change things up every so often on The Late Late Show.
“The bottom line is we do 37 Late Late shows in a season, one we go bananas and that was Friday night and it was great fun.
“In another we play with toys and we act like children and that goes down very well indeed.
“And another one coming up down the tracks will be the country show and some people will hate that because they don’t like country and some people will love it because they love country,” he added.
