I think Ryan has maybe lost sight of what the show should be about - kids talking about toys and demonstrating them, with the odd musical performance thrown in. Or maybe he's treating it like an extension of his morning show - talking about the mood of the nation etc.
I had the news on in the background before the LLTS and it was even gloomier than usual - the new variant and flights being cancelled and primary school children wearing masks at school etc. So I was looking forward to a bit of fun and escapism. But as soon as the opening number was over (which I loved) he spent ages showing the different coloured bears and talking about the colours and emotions and how people might be feeling angry or blue because of Covid and the restrictions etc. I just thought, "Oh, give us a break from it all". This is the part that most of the kids would be watching because the smallest kids are probably asleep within the first half hour to an hour.
To be fair to Ryan, a few things went wrong. The little girl with the bubble doll was very hyper and had no interest in demonstrating anything other than the bubble doll. The boy making the burgers was in his own little world and intent on squirting out the ketchup. The batteries had ran out in the dog toy and it wouldn't perform any tricks. That's live TV for you. But Ryan is a veteran of Toy Shows and he should have just moved on to the next thing.
I did feel sorry for him when he spoke about all the people living abroad and how they had sent in messages for the tree - then the first message was from someone in Limerick! Everything seemed to be going wrong at that point.
I agree that he was very rude with the girl demonstrating the dinosaurs - asking her to repeat the dinosaurs' names over and over and telling her she was very intense (I'm sure she didn't even understand what the word meant). Then getting her to pick up a cake with the dinosaur hands and, after she had spent ages trying to pick it up, knocking it out of her hand. If I was her parent, I'd be very angry at how she was treated.
Kellie Harrington was great, as was Ed Sheeran.
I'm a big reader and the book segment was a joke - he'd barely introduced one of the 'reviewers' when he had them jumping up to do a performance. And he just threw the books on the floor! I get that he was probably running out of time at that point, but he wasted a lot of time on other, less important things. Really disappointing, especially when Ryan is a big reader himself.
Usually Facebook would be full of people sharing clips from the show and saying things like, "You have to see this kid", but there wasn't a peep about it after the pre-show photos of excited kids in their pjs waiting for it to start.
@saleorbouy I'm sorry this was your introduction to the Late Late Toy Show. Last year's show was amazing. This one was a big let down.