Patrick Kielty: ‘Trailblazer’ with ‘gallows humour’ is frontrunner for The Late Late Show

“No one had done that sort of comedy before. They might have done it in a Catholic working men’s club or Protestant working men’s club. But this was in the middle of Belfast when there was still quite a heavy conflict going on.

Born in Dundrum, Kielty began his stand-up career in the Empire while studying psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. He was 16 when his 44-year-old father Jack was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in 1988. “And so you were living in a society and you were part of a community that was telling you that you know, ‘you boys have to look after your mother’, you know and ‘you are men’. We had a younger brother, you know, he was 11.”

He was signed up by the BBC in 1995 after appearing in Comic Relief and began fronting television shows including the original Love Island. He presented his own late night talkshow and in 2002 co-hosted the BBC talent show, Fame Academy, with presenter, actress and model, Cat Deeley.Fr Gary Donegan, a Passionist priest renowned for his reconciliation work in north Belfast, married the couple and remembers the secrecy around the ceremony as they were pursued by media.

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