'They might not even ask someone like Claire Byrne to audition.'
RTE could use politicians to act as 'dummy guests' for fake interviews to screen test the next Late Late Show host.
An RTE insider said: “They would do pilot things with dummy guests. They mock up a set but they might even use the Late Late set but they wouldn’t have to…so they could see how someone would introduce guests doing intro and how they might interact with somebody out of their comfort zone.“The people they are looking at within RTE will be people with experience.
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