KATHRYN Thomas has said she’s “having a ball” as she opened up about her latest career move.
The TV star has joined Dublin’s Q102 as the host of their brand new breakfast show, ‘The Morning Show with Kathryn Thomas’, which started last month.
The show airs every weekday morning from 7am-10am.
And Kathryn, 46, admitted that although it’s a challenge, she is loving the new job.
In a recent interview with Chic, the mum-of-two revealed that she’s been “having a ball”.
She said: “The whole team in Q102 are just lovely and it’s so exciting.
“It was definitely an adjustment getting used to the early start. And also I’m learning the desk as well – I’ve never actually operated the desk before, so I’m kind of throwing myself into that.
“It’s really exciting. It’s definitely a challenge. But the listeners have been amazing, the reaction has been brilliant and the team are just so lovely. So, I’m having a ball.”
Kathryn has always shared a passion for helping people look and feel their best, and hosted the hit RTE series Operation Transformation for over four years.
Now, the Carlow native has moved on to front a brand-new two part documentary titled The Skinny Jab Revolution.
The new show will follow Kathryn as she looks at the almost overnight emergence of GLP-1 weight loss medications, like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro – and explores their huge impact.
The mum-of-two has revealed the reason she wanted to do this project.
She said: “I mean, these drugs are being called one of the biggest societal changes since the iPhone. That’s how big they reckon the impact of these drugs is going to be, you know. And I suppose they are already sort of proving to be, in one way.
“For me, it was like, what does this mean for society as a whole? As a mother of two girls, I was sort of concerned about what what does this mean for for us going forward? I wanted to learn more. I wanted to understand more.
“When I started on Operation Transformation 14 years ago, it’s a very different world that we live in now today. Our understanding of obesity has entirely changed in that time.
“The World Health Organisation has classified obesity as a disease — that’s entirely changed how we look at and treat obesity. There’s a huge movement to de-stigmatise obesity.
“There was so much I wanted to learn more about. And I wanted to learn — and ask myself, ‘do I need to unlearn stuff here, as well?’ I’d always been talking about physical exercise, good food, and that’s the drum that we need to be banging. I still, 100 per cent, believe that it is.
“But I think that of people who are struggling with obesity and who are suffering with obesity, these medications are groundbreaking and they’re life changing.
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“I wanted to understand what that looks like, what that means and talk to people and kind of get a sense of it. It just wouldn’t leave me alone, to be honest.”
Kathryn recently revealed the “most embarrassing moment of her career” that turned into “television gold”.
The TV star hosted The Voice of Ireland for five years from 2011 to 2016 and had a major on air slip-up at one of the final shows.
The 46-year-old explained: “It is the most embarrassing moment of my career. I was presenting The Voice of Ireland many, many, many moons ago.
“And what they used to do is bring celebrities on or bands on to play with the finalists.
“So Steve Wall turns up, Brewing Up a Storm was the tune and the lads were on stage and off they went and everybody was having a great time.”
The Carlow native was standing on the side of the stage and too was distracted that she thought the iconic pause in the song was the end of it and her queue to come out on stage.
She said: “I was too busy probably applying my lipstick, chatting away to everyone backstage and that pause in the song happens and I walked straight out onto the middle of the stage and with my microphone ready to interview everybody after.
“What an incredible performance that was, oh my God.”
