The Late Late Toy Show and the Eurovision Song Contest in third place. Tubridy later admitted that he had to apologise to a lady in the audience whom he had hit with a soiled nappy tossed carelessly aside during one of the toy demonstrations. Performer on the Toy Show, Ashley Tubridy, later appeared on "The Late Late Show" in January 2012, performing a new edition to her song "Friends Forever". The 2012 edition, with a Shrek theme (though a TV commercial airing all week in advance falsely implied an Indiana Jones theme), took place on 30 November. It was host Ryan Tubridy's fourth Toy Show.
The Tubridy Show music. In each programme there were three sections. The first would last around 20 minutes with a debate or high-profile guest. For the second and third there would typically be a panel and a music guest. Tubridy and his team concocted what they described as "an eclectic mix of items on a daily basis". Every month the Tubridy Show Book Club was run. It encouraged listeners to send their review on a featured book. The best review would be published in the "RTÉ Guide". The book club was influential in the Irish book market, with novels such as John Boyne's