TV presenter admits fear he gave the Pope serious infection at Vatican

Patrick Kielty had a infinitesimal of genuine fearfulness helium had fixed Pope Francis shingles aft gathering him astatine the Vatican implicit the summer.

The Late Late Show host travelled to the Vatican successful June and was among an assemblage of 100 planetary comedians and artists who met the Pope, which helium described arsenic a ‘surreal’ and ‘weird fever dream’.

Kielty said that during his travel to Rome, portion of his look had swollen up, which helium had blamed connected DIY enactment helium had carried retired astatine home.

‘The week beforehand, we were doing up a house, and I was lifting loft insulation and I thought I really got loft insulation successful my face. [My face] had each swollen up,’ helium told PA.

‘When gathering the Pope, I took disconnected my sunglasses and could benignant of spot him physically recoiling, “What’s going connected with this fella?” It was lone afterwards that I really recovered retired I had shingles.

‘So determination was a accidental that I had fixed the Pope shingles, but I was ne'er truthful gladsome to really spot him the week aft successful afloat health, giving the blessings. It was a surreal experience.’

The Irish speech amusement big admitted that helium thought the invitation to conscionable the Pope was ‘a joke’ astatine first, and initially felt similar helium was successful an occurrence of Father Ted.

‘There’s a constituent erstwhile that telephone came successful and arsenic a comedian, you’re ever reasonably benignant of… is this for real? I thought it was a joke,’ said.

‘It was precise weird. Then you spot [actor] Ardal [O’Hanlon] is determination and similar everybody else, you’re going, close Father Ted.

“So conscionable erstwhile you’re reasoning Father Dougal’s going to conscionable the Pope past Whoopi Goldberg arrives successful a car, who was by acold the astir fashionable idiosyncratic successful the Vatican that day. Sister Act, apparently, astatine the Vatican.’

Keilty, who is the archetypal big to hail from Northern Ireland and is primitively from Dundrum, and helium admitted determination was a curiosity astir him during his archetypal bid hosting his show.

He said that helium volition instrumentality ‘the unsmooth with the smooth’ arsenic helium gets acceptable to big the adjacent series, and his extremity is simply to marque ‘the champion show’ helium can.

The presenter is married to chap prima Cat Deeley and the brace person 2 sons, portion his woman tin presently beryllium seen presenting This Morning alongside Ben Shephard.

The household are surviving in London, arsenic helium travels betwixt London and Dublin for his gig, and helium thinks they person ‘the champion of some worlds’ which means a determination to Ireland isn’t connected the cards.

‘I’ve got the location up successful Dundrum for 25 years present and truthful I’ve ever been backmost and forwards. The kids are successful schoolhouse successful London. Cat’s moving successful London. She’s determination 4 days a week.’ helium explained.

‘I tin conscionable astir travel backmost and walk the clip I request to bash this. But she’s determination 4 days a week, truthful I can’t spot it happening anytime soon. I ever called Dundrum home.’

The Late Late amusement returns contiguous astatine 9.35pm.

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