TV star Angela Scanlon has she hates the “traditional” format of a chat show – as she is backed as one of the few presenters lined up to host the Late Late Show.
The Ask Me Anything presenter returns to our screens on April 15 with her Saturday night chat show.
Angela is currently in the running to be named the next host of the Late Late Show when Ryan Tubridy steps down on May 26.
But she said: “It makes me anxious as somebody giving an interview, if I’m trying to pour myself into that.
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“But also, I think that there’s no space for the complexity of an individual.
“And I love the idea of somebody who you think you know revealing a completely different side of themselves -in spite of themselves sometimes – and being excited by that.”
Opening up about her own show, which is now in its third season, she told the Sunday Independent’s Life magazine that she believes a female host of a chat show is still a radical thing.
She said: “It’s still quite a radical thing. In the UK, there’s no female doing a chat show.
“Or hasn’t been since Ruby Wax did it in the 1990s. It’s wild.
“We think we’ve come so far, and think there's no need for these conversations anymore, and there f***ing is.
“And so, I feel.. like there’s a weight.
“Obviously Miriam has come before, and Claire Byrne, so it’s actually probably less radical here.
“But that particular slot, historically, has been owned by the lads."
Women are judged differently than men, she said.
“It’s the whole ‘Hillary Clinton wasn’t warm enough to win an election.’ What the f**k does that mean?
“And I think I’m a warm woman, thank god,” she said, rolling her eyes.
“Because I could be a really capable broadcaster, but not be in that seat because I’m not warm enough. It’s bonkers.
“Like you don’t look at Brendan O’Connor, or Ray D’Arcy, and go, ‘oh he’s not warm’.
“That’s not how they’re judged. Never mind being a deal breaker,” she added.
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