Late Late Show - in the audience

I won tickets for Friday's Late Late Show and was delighted to attend with Amy, Kasey and Samantha (who traveled all the way from South Africa to attend!!!).

The girls called over to my house on the way to the studio and we got ready here and also had a little nibblie and a cocktail.

We were incredibly excited to be part of the Late Late Show audience and took every opportunity to take a picture in different parts of the TV studio.

When we arrived and checked in we were given our tickets and invited in for a wine reception.  We were also told that that the host wanted to meet us and that he thought the story of Sam flying over for the show was just great!

I did mention how excited we were didn't I?!

And here it is!  The famous Late Late Show set.

Guests who appeared on the show

Nidge from Love/Hate (Tom Vaughan Lawlor)

Michael Harding

Sharon Corr 

Katie Hopkins

Paul Carrack 

Mario Rosenstock

Just before the last part of the show as it went to the final ad break we were approached by the staff member who had checked us in and she told us that the host was going to approach us and tell the story of how Sam had traveled from South Africa to attend the show.  As the sound guy instructed Sam and I to stand up to be "mic-ed up" we balked!!  None of us wanted to be interviewed on live TV on the biggest show in Ireland!!  We were able to garble a confused "No we don't want to do this" and thankfully that was the end of that!  Seriously is this what she meant when we were told that "Ryan wants to meet you" when we had originally arrived???

After the show we went to the Green Room and met some of the guests and also host Ryan Tubridy.  Here we are pictured with author Michael Harding along with Ryan Tubridy.  We really enjoyed Michael Harding on the show and it was so great to chat to him and let him know that we were fans.

The day after I looked at the show on the Player to see if we could see any of us in the audience.  

And lookee here - there we are!

Amy is in the bottom right hand corner of this scene.