Ryan Tubridy (in the week approaching his début as host of "The Late Late Show") that Ní Shúilleabháin was "great support" and had transformed his life. In 2010 he told the same newspaper she was "my rock" since the death of friend and colleague Gerry Ryan. In December 2014, Tubridy's agent announced that he and Miss Ní Shúilleabháin had separated, saying 'Aoibhinn and Ryan are no longer together". While hosting "Tubridy Tonight", he spoke of the public's perception of him, saying: "I think I am a victim of my own image. I think it's been cultivated by others for me. I live
Ryan Tubridy on Amazon.com—appearing on "Seoige and O'Shea" in April 2008, he proclaimed his top three books of the previous year as "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, "Christine Falls" by Benjamin Black and "Exit Ghost" by Philip Roth. He is fond of the humour of Gerry Ryan and the fictional character Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. Tubridy has expressed his disdain for "anonymous cowards on the internet", those who operate "under the shadowy cover of names like Catman or Twenty Rothmans or whatever", and believes Wikipedia is "a fact-free bull run for any passing eejit to come along and add whatever fact or fiction they