TV host Angela Scanlon has told of her nerves hosting her own chat show at home, rather than the UK - recalling last season when she tripped over her words and her dad was there to encourage her.
The Co. Meath star returns with the second season of her Rte One show this Saturday.
But the red-haired beauty admitted she gets more nervous doing a show on home soil, instead of the UK, where she now lives.
She said: “You know I think I get more nervous doing the show at home than I would if I was doing a big show in the UK. Equally, it’s lovely.
“I might look out to see my mom and dad, or a cousin, or an old friend from Irish dancing.
“And this time around, we get to have a full studio audience so that is going to be amazing,” she told the Rte Guide.
She recalled having a wobbler moment in the studio last season and regained control of the situation after she spotted her dad in the audience.
“There was one moment last season, my dad was in the audience, and I was tripping on my words a bit and thinking, ‘Ok, gather yourself, gather yourself’.
“And I just looked down and he gave me a little wink as if to say, ‘You’ve got this’.
“That kind of thing is such a special moment from doing a show at home. I can’t wait.”
Angela also opened up about her struggle being a first time mother and how lonely she felt at the time when she gave birth to her first daughter, Ruby.
“For me, I am really private in some ways. Obviously, my job is public-facing, and I have an Instagram account and things like that, but I think that time was extremely lonely for me.
“I was too afraid to say out loud things that I felt or the experience that I was having.
“I thought, ‘I must be so broken, there must be something deeply wrong with my experience of being a mum’ and I was too afraid to say it.”
She said when she started to open up about her feelings, she realised other women were in the same boat as her and a new mum, making Angela realise she was a “freak or a bad mother.”
But she said it was when Ruby turned three that Angela felt like a mother.
“And then, during lockdown when Ruby had just turned three, it felt like ‘Oh my God, I feel like a mother.’ Not just a woman pretending to feel like a mother.
“Sometimes it just takes time. For some people, it is immediate, but I think for a lot of others, it isn’t.
“It’s something we have gotten better at talking about but that still needs attention. I still get messages to this day from people.”
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